cooking or reading about cooking, entertaining, sticking my nose in a glass of wine, traveltraveltravel (the west calls me), looking at maps, planting things, arranging flowers, being with my friends, my art (check it out if you like at www.eviecoates.blogspot.com), eating anything involving a peanut butter and banana combination, reading, singing harmony, spelling, mowing my lawn and having a beer on the back step (in that order), junkdiving/flea markets, rearranging furniture, naming paint colors, napping, watching the moon, whistling, planning where i'll travel in my vintage airstream....
the person who first (and most likely, accidentally) created caramel. my grandmother when she was my age. definitely gabriel byrne. maybe paul simon. wally byam with his signature beret. a talking lobster before it goes in the steaming pot. neil sedaka. that's it, nobody else. wait, add gregory peck. wait, he's dead.
the list-making has gotten silly. i like music, yes please to the tunes.it travels with me and plays wherever i go. i almost can't stand silence. that might be bad. i'll just say my latest purchases were "happiness" by the weepies and "love is hell" by ryan adams. quite the contrast.
on my shelf currently are...amelie, chocolat, babette's feast, out of africa, garden state, lost in translation, under the tuscan sun, big fish, motorcycle diaries, spanglish, napoleon dynamite, the holy trinity of waiting for guffman, best in show, and a mighty wind, the three amigos, milagro beanfield war, the frisco kid. i don't make it to the theatre very often.
lost and grey's anatomy are my only current must-sees. i can't get addicted to anything else right now. good thing that arrested development just got cancelled (not really) because it would be my new vice. i will admit that i can't turn it off whenever i catch the barefoot contessa or nigella lawson on the food channel. oh, and i do love CBS sunday morning -- that bill geist positively tickles me.
i have a blossoming cookbook collection of which i am really quite proud. recent reads that were void of recipes (almost entirely) have been "the time traveler's wife," (WOW) "fumbling," "through painted deserts," "garlic and sapphires," and now i'm in the middle of "the year of magical thinking." one of the finest books i've ever read is "extremely loud and incredibly close" by jonathan safran foer. freaking unbelievable. selections which i have determined need re-reading are my big fat collection of o'connor short stories, "blue like jazz," and "dakota: a spiritual geography." and then there are always my monthly copies of "gourmet" and "airstream magazine" on the bedside table. yep. that about does it.
seems to cheapen the idea of a hero if i put it in this little box on a screen...i'll refrain.