Thom Filicia

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

In college you have the license to do things you'll never do again, so have fun with it.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.