PATERSON

I just watched Paterson by Jim Jarmusch tonight for the first time.

Wow! I really enjoyed the film and think it's Adam Driver's best role to date. Classic Jarmusch characters that were assessable and relatable. Golshifteh Farahani's portrayal of Laura was fantastic and endearing. I loved their relationship.

The film sparked my own creative side as an artist and writer. It made me want to write, paint and create.

I love studios, artist's workshops, writers desk and nooks. Paterson's basement had me constantly pausing the film just to look around.

I also was drooling over his library.

A list of books are below:

• "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau

• "Lunch Poems" by Frank O'Hara

• "Paterson" and "The Collected Earlier Poems" by William Carlos Williams

• "The Fall" by Albert Camus

• "The Walk" by Robert Walser

• "Double Indemnity" by James M. Cain

• "Bambi" by Felix Salten

• "Alone and Not Alone" and "Great Balls of Fire" by Ron Padgett

• "The Collected Poems" by Wallace Stevens

• "On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988" by Kenneth Koch

• "The Call of the Wild/White Fang" by Jack London

• "Collected Poems, 1956-1987" by John Ashbery

• "The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness" by Sy Montgomery

• "In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop" by Steve Kowit

• "Selected Prose and Poetry" by Edgar Allan Poe

• "Save the Last Dance for Satan" by Nick Tosches

• "The New York Trilogy" by Paul Auster

• "I Fought the Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller" by Miriam Linna & Randell Fuller

• "Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005" by Lucy Sante

• "Gone Man Squared" by Royston Ellis

• "This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra" and "Prophetika Book One" by Sun Ra

• "The Baltimore Atrocities" by John Dermot Woods

• "Sweets and Other Stories" by Andre Williams

• "Benzedrine Highway" by Charles Plymell

• "I Remember" and "The Nancy Book" by Joe Brainard

• "Monk" by Laurent de Wilde

• "Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East" by Scott Anderson

• "Consider the Lobster and Other Essays" and "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace

• "The Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire

• "Up Above the World" by Paul Bowles

• "Amerika" by Franz Kafka.