Barie Shortell

Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research

Irrelevant

Laurel Snow Kinney, Gauloises - in a desirous life where everything is black and white and a little grainy on the visual palate.

Cravat and cufflink organizations for those who are both scions and magnates (as per HHH), my clumbsiness, funny things - like the coincidence of my clumsy phalange (in not keeping up with my neurons and the association of thumb in quick action) and a subsequent typo: clumsiness.

The Fountainhead, My Antonia, Portrait of a Lady

Eugene Green: Le Pont des Arts, Hirokazu Koreeda: After Life, Fassbinder: Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, Luis Bunuel: That Discrete Object of Desire, Alain Resnais: Hiroshima Mon Amour (ah...Marguerite Duras), Tom Twyker: Run, Lola Run, Ingmar Bergman: Fanny and Alexander, Cries and Whispers, Persona, John Waters: Desperate Living - - - plus the more guilty pleasures: Drop Dead Gorgeous, Funny Girl, Meet Me in St. Louis, All those "not another" movies, Harold and Kumar

Smog, Belle and Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, The Birds, Loudon Wainwright III, The McGarrigle's, Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Gillian Welch, The Books, Bettie Serveert, Mates of State, Explosions in the Sky, Baby Dayliner, Hot Chip, Iron and Wine, Mum, Aphex Twin, Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens, Ratatat, Silver Jews, Lil' Kim, Elliot Smith, Palace Brothers/Will Oldham, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Dolly Parton, but much more...

Gemini

People like me. A friend recently told me that out of our circle, I am the one with charisma. I find both of these facts a little confusing, but I'm not one to self-deprecate.

Hannah Arendt.

Myself in 4th Grade. Everyone I know - now - in 4th Grade, come to think of it.