1996

i like to collect things, like from events and experiences. i keep lots of
things, like movie tickets and play bills and letters. i also like to collect
lists of things that i really really like.

i wrote the list below in january, 1996. i was a sophomore in college at
the time. i tried to include people and things that really influenced me.
i've included this list without edits.




jazz the memory of janah billie
holliday highland park movie the

ater anna deveare smith bob love
kids federico garcía lorca charlie rose


spike lee toni morrison elie wiesel ‘o’
easy rider gary oldman monet ray de c

arava raphael the world champion chicag
o bulls allen ginsburg, city lights, morris

sey th

e truth in silence marvin gaye mi
chealjackson r.e.m. ernesto cardenal

san francisco ‘e’ mikey
flaherty the wpa maya
angelou the grand canyon

for blanche boyd hale woodruff
lawrence arthur jones james
lesene wells

for jessica st
relec orion t

he hunter mc solaar for
farah palkhiwalla sand
ra quiles jean toomer

‘s’ for hope, i am here


the hubble telescope dwight gooden
john daly ‘5’ harry carson las

vegas my sadness

hitchhiking from maine dr. j magic
johnson pete rose michael jordan
the motion of water

the sun

job moses abraham adam

river phoenix rodney
fuller winnie the pooh

pablo neruda alan moore
todd mcfarlane ‘9’ alan

grant frank miller sandman
the usual suspects oliver sto

ne kevin spaceymor
gan freeman the res

ilience of minority
communities the big

ness of movies bell hoks
the books of the old tes

tament zora neale hurston
the brilliance of light leo

nardo davinci ‘b’ martin

luther the shine of art inside you jesse jackson
al gore william kuntsler abbie hoffman w.clement

stone sean penn blowout woody allen ‘a’ jeremy
guskin jason’s lyic the looseness of dreams

lucille clifton the silence of thought
a full moon a clear day soft clouds the biggness and b
oldness of film and to space to dream sweet dreams

bill moyers james dean elvis presley the swiftness
of trains

chicago blues nirvana
dave grohl

the distortions of lenses, the sound of one piano
playing, new orleans, mike figgis the strength of
wisdom and age leslie marmon silko sam shepard
hermann hesse ms. clements dean samson

shawon dunston the fab five

“true romance” the spirit of youth mr. hill
dr. elkun dr. herz the new york times magazine

wynton marsalis avant garde chinese art the
clarity of simple things raymond carver

robert altman the rats of nimh douglas coupland steven
jobs toy story the indian in the cupboard “the story of

light” mahmoud abdul rauf shawn kemp kevin garnett
wally kromylo dean brown jenny paz y mino

charles bukowski ned
welch uptown dizzy andrew wagner sixty minutes
20/20 public television les miserables

jack nicholson batman johnny de
pp tim burton robin williams

e. e. cummings william carlos williams langston hughes

buster douglas hoop dreams
william gates arthur agee bar

ry lopez the
power of spiritual things

photographs charlie rose quentin
tarantino ben stiller the state

lawrence joseph portishead g love
the strangeness of you
genunineness of tru friends.