Things I Can Hear in My Backyard Right Now

• train
• frogs
• cicadas?
• squirrels
• birds
• car horn/door lock
• cars on Central and Barksdale
• my air conditioner
• a dog or two
• a bat?
• crickets

Things Chloe Likes Most

That's the order in which 6-year-old Chloe Chockleyblog listed what she likes most. It reflects current thinking.

• Gymnastics
• Singing
• Eating chocolate

Purchased by the Guy in Front of Me at Kroger

orange juice
beef jerky
Irish Spring soap
bag of ice

Exploring Memory

While working on a new series of paintings during this week's Studio Night, I needed a little inspirational help. I don't know where you go for inspirational help, but I go to facebook. I asked all my friends there for recommendations of art, novels, and music about memory, and here are the recommendations I received:


Art
Richter's black and white paintings of family
Clyde Connell's post and gate series of sculptures
Salvador Dali - Persistence of Memory

Novels/Books

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore

Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion - Blue Nights

Joan Didion - Where I Was From

Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays

Vladimir Nabakov - Speak, Memory

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida

Virginia Woolf - Moments of Being

W.G. Sebold - Austerlitz

Anne West - Mapping - An Explorative Guide to Making, Thinking & Writing

Richard Cytowic - The Man Who Tasted Shapes

Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Donald Westlake - Memory

Dave Eggers - What Is The What

Sites of Memory (essays)

anything by James Joyce

Music

Beatles - "I Forgot to Remember To Forget"

Beatles - "In My Life"

John Mayer - "83"

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (album)

Simple Minds - "Don't You Forget About Me"

PM Dawn - "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss"

311 - "Freeze Time"

Barbara Streisand - "The Way We Were"

Bonus! Movie

Memento

Feel free to comment with more recommendations...