These are a few of my favorite things: forgiveness, l'esprit de l'escalier, the kindness of strangers, naps, believing, music, surprises, dogs, remembering, laughing through tears, NOLA, lilies of the valley, Scrabble, coffee in a bowl, the internets, children, crosswords, dive bars with jukeboxes, donkeys, black and white photographs, manatees, home-grown tomatoes and the view of the stars from the gutter.
"You are not your bank account. You are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your grande latte. You are not the car you drive. You are not your fucking khakis… I say, let me never be complete. I say, may I never be content. I say, deliver me from Swedish furniture. I say, deliver me from clever art. I say, deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth… I say, evolve, and let the chips fall where they may." ~Chuck Palahniuk
I'd like to meet:
Kind, interesting, real people. With big brass balls. You.
"Here's to the "crazy" ones; the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers; the round pegs in the square holes; the ones who see things differently."
The Young@Heart chorus!
The Thamesmen!
'What will your obituary say?'
Music:
"Without music, life would be a mistake." ~Nietzsche
Nuff said.
Movies:
The Days of Wine and Roses, The Misfits, Stranger Than Paradise, Bad Seed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Patch of Blue, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate (original), Butterfield 8, Let's Rock Again, Blue Velvet, Reservoir Dogs, Valley Girl, The Virgin Suicides, Gas Food Lodging, Barfly, Vera Drake, Thelma and Louise, Fallen Angel, Village of the Damned, Everything is Illuminated, Lost in Translation, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Graduate, The Lost Weekend, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gummo, Brazil...
Be my Netflix friend!
Television:
PBS, Droopy, Jeopardy, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Daily Show, Freaks and Geeks, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Young Ones, Medium...
"I had to subvert my principles and kow-tow to an idiot. Television makes these daily sacrifices possible. Deadens the inner core of my being." ~Hal Hartley
Books:
To Kill A Mockingbird, A Man Without A Country, Surfing Armageddon, The Kiss, The Afterlife Experiments. Jean Rhys, Bukowski, Salinger, Oates, Berg, Dorothy Parker...
Heroes:
My parents, pallies, etc. Mothers. Uncle Carl. Johnny Cash. Bill Moyers. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mohandas K. Gandhi. Jesus of Nazareth. Thomas Paine. Jimmy Carter. Sue Johanson. Sr. Helen Prejean. My fabulous, forgiving husband.
