John's favorite things:

music: my bloody valentine, nick drake, syd barrett, the beatles, the kinks, idaho, new order, joy division, mozart, beethoven, any sitar record, durutti column, cocteau twins, sonic youth, the soft boys, robyn hitchcock, slowdive, clay idols, the jazz butcher conspiracy, sly and the family stone, the o'jays, john lennon, george harrison, mogwai, the railway children, olivia tremor control, pink floyd, the rolling stones (before 1975), donovan, jimi hendrix, throwing muses, cornershop, red house painters, led zeppelin, helium, the flaming lips, 10cc, swell, ivy, stereolab, neil young, the byrds, the fall, spacemen 3, moose, the dandy warhols, deep purple, the sea and cake, magnetic fields, the cure, moby, swirlies, lilys, almost all the Flying Nun bands, ride, lush, XTC, the pixies, frank black and the catholics, Dinosaur Jr., the carpenters, the dukes of stratosphere, pale saints, sundays, handel, haydn.

authors: kingsly amis, martin amis, william boyd, chaucer, joseph conrad, edward gorey, nabokov, wordsworth, keats, shelley, ted hughes, ian mcewan, alan sillitoe, william cowper, freud, jung, karen horney, neil postman, bill buford, t.s. eliot, henry james, shakespeare, samuel richardson, george saunders, v.s. naipaul, v.s. pritchett, kazuo ishiguro, hanif kureshi, oscar wilde, christopher smart, gerard manly hopkins, virginia woolf, samuel beckett, philip larkin, joyce, lewis carroll, edward lear.

other: playing tennis, watching tennis, dreaming about tennis; mexico; rickenbackers and gibson ES335s; Magritte; cy twombly; watching soccer; The Los Angeles Lakers; new york city; the mountains, the desert, the sea; the films of kubrick, hitchcock, anderson (wes and paul thomas), sturges, polanski, kieslowski; staying home; going out; vancouver; london; german beer; english tea; being silly; words; my handful (and what a handful they are!) of friends; brother Mark; boy Chandler; J'Anna.


J'Anna's favorite things and people:

paris; sleeping; ice cream; new order; j.s. bach; notels; bears; keeping photo albums; riding bikes; sonic youth; the beatles (before they got all hairy); mozart; chocolate with nuts; silver lake; numbers and math; my brother Jayson; vienna; giving gifts; scott campbell and andria strand; the Panchen Lama; baking; playing guitar; ida; sushi; jane austen; helen fielding; joni mitchell; going to museums; dance music; candles; brian kehew; the school of exceptional living; cocteau twins; paul mccartney; austin powers, ruby in paradise, the graduate, blue, white, red; prefab sprout; U2; durutti column; the carpenters; the cure; my bloody valentine; steve schayer; John.