Cool Things

Cool Things

A cabinet of curiosities · Todd A. Comer

Music· Film· Books· Comics· Poetry· Places· Coffee· Vinyl· Thrift· Lectures· Glass· Food· Music· Film· Books· Comics· Poetry· Places· Coffee· Vinyl· Thrift· Lectures· Glass· Food·
Music

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan · 1963

Book

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000

Poem · Berryman

“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.”

Dream Song 14

Book

Kindred

Octavia Butler · 1979

Poem · Frost

Birches

Robert Frost · 1916

Comics

Asterios Polyp

David Mazzucchelli · 2009

Object

Coffee Shops

Underdog Café · Yellow Springs

Song

“Ain't No Sunshine”

Bill Withers · 1971

Place

Marietta, Ohio

Ohio River · Mound builders · first city

Poetry

Four Quartets

T.S. Eliot · 1943

Music

Wild God

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · 2024

Film

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick · 2011

Restaurant

Petite Chou Bistro

Indianapolis · Broad Ripple

Song ▶

“River on Fire”

Adam Again · 1992

Book

Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee · 1980

Object

Art & Vases

The beauty of things

Book

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Poem · Andrew Marvell

“Had we but world enough and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.”

To His Coy Mistress

c. 1650

Food

Honeycrisp Apples

The only apple worth mentioning

Object

Some of My Vases

Accumulated over time

Music

Veedon Fleece

Van Morrison · 1974

Music

Illinoise

Sufjan Stevens

Poetry

Talking to My Body

Anna Swir

Object

Vintage Dishes

Cathay atomic pattern · Taylor Smith & Taylor

Music

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus · 1963

Book

If on a winter's night a traveler

Italo Calvino · 1979

Object

Thrift Stores

The archaeology of the everyday

Poem · W.B. Yeats

“The silver apples of the moon, / the golden apples of the sun.”

The Song of Wandering Aengus

1897

Film

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock · 1958

Book

White Noise

Don DeLillo · 1985

Music

Mule Variations

Tom Waits · 1999

Food

Greek Yogurt

Plain · thick · necessary · Aldi

Object

Vintage Receivers & LPs

Marantz · Pioneer · Technics · warm

Comics

From Hell

Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell · 1999

Music

Somethin' Else

Cannonball Adderley · 1958

Song ▶

“Wondering Where the Lions Are”

Bruce Cockburn · 1979

Place

Yellow Springs, Ohio

Glen Helen · Antioch · strange grace

Film

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Hayao Miyazaki · 1984

Music

Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass · 1965

Film

The Big Lebowski

Coen Brothers · 1998

Lectures

The Great Courses

The Teaching Company · lectures on everything

Comics

Building Stories

Chris Ware · 2012

Object

Blenko Decanters & Vases

Art glass · the weight of beauty

Book

The Earthsea Trilogy

Ursula K. Le Guin

Film

Dune I & II

Denis Villeneuve · 2021 & 2024

Book

Straight Man

Richard Russo · 1997

Food

Bananas

Daily · unfussy · reliable

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