David Shirley

writer

AARP, Society of Friends, World Bank, John Cowper Powys Society, Maurice Merleau-Ponty Society, American Lawn Bowlers Association

music, poetry, my beloved truck [Old Blue], movies, running, beetles [especially those of the dung variety], digging for goofer dust at midnight, drinking over-priced grappa with Zach, Quakerism, Scott Barretta trivia

Works of Love, The Dream Songs, Searching for Lost Time, Lanark, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Hopscotch, Vallejo's Posthumous Poems, Jesus' Son, Weymouth Sands, White Buildings, Breathturn, anything by Thomas Ligotti, Michel Foucault, Angela Carter, Kathy Acker, William T. Vollmann (well, almost anything) and His Holiness Jean Genet

Celine and Julie Go Boating, To Be or Not To Be, Vivre Sa Vivre, Naked, The Apartment, The Kingdom, The American Friend, The Long Goodbye, San Soleil, Monsieur Verdoux, Happiness. And what about other visual art? Gregory Gillespie, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, Matthew Barney, Arnulf Rainer, Ed Paschke, Francesco Clemente

Robert Wyatt, John Coltrane, Gavin Bryars, Mekons, Reynols, Rheinhallt H. Rowlands, Otomo Yoshihide, Prefab Sprout, Serge Gainsbourg, DNA, Vashti Bunyan, Isaac Hayes, Tyler Keith and the Preacher's Kids, Stina Nordenstam, Marc Eitzel, Love Camp 7 (It's good for you.), Mark-Anthony Turnage, Antony and the Johnsons, Harry Partch, and all things Beefheart

Monk, Good Eats with Alton Brown, Robert Tilton, Buffy, The Daily Show

old, tired and just don't care any more

Don Rickles, Anne Briggs, Guy Maddin, Robert Wyatt, Scott Barretta, Jean-Luc Godard, Alasdair Gray, Thomas Ligotti, Isaac Hayes, Russell Edson