Continuing to plot points on the graph of my likes. No, not likes, but works that have made me who I am, somehow, someway. Ideally, with luck, this will eventually take in other forms: dance, painting, sculpture...
Music:
Allman Brothers: “Jessica,” “Ramblin’ Man”
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks, The Basement Tapes, Bringing it All Back Home, John Wesley Harding, Love and Theft, Planet Waves, other single songs to come later
The Proclaimers: Sunshine on Leith
Go-Gos: "Turn to You"
TV:
SNL (For better and worse. I know so much effluvia about this show, I could ace an SNL trivia night.)
Match Game
MTV, '80s (First video I saw after we got cable: "Sharp Dressed Man.")
NBC Nightly News, '70s and early '80s (I miss David Brinkley and his bemused opinions on the political arena. What would he make of the Tea Party?)
Late Night w/ David Letterman (before the jump to CBS and cranky affability)
Books, stories, poems:
Richard Hugo: Making Certain It Goes On
Robinson Jeffers: “The Purse-Seine,” “To the Stone-Cutters,” “Hurt Hawks”
Frost: “Mending Wall”
Plath: The Colossus
Philip Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings, High Windows, “Aubade,” “Love Again”
Emily Dickinson (I adore her work; however, I can only read a dozen or so of her poems at a time. After reading something on the order of “I felt a Funeral—in my Brain—“, I too feel like the top of my head has been taken off.)
Kay Ryan: The Niagara River, Say Uncle
David Kirby: The House of Blue Light, The Ha-Ha
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