Being happy, writing, cooking, gigs, film, throwing parties, reading Gogol, straightening my hair, discussing the dissolution of the free world or how it never really existed, eating mayonaise with EVERYTHING, the lychee martini at Nobu, lobster, cashmere, Russian oligarchs, love, my job, restaurants - obviously not all of them, but certainly all of the restaurants in New Orleans (partly due to the fact that someone else then does the dishes),the countryside - all sky and green and nostalgic, the city - all buzz and lights and possibility, my best girlies (you know who you are), you boys who make me laugh so hard my stomach hurts and those looks certain ones give you that say 'no else exists in the world but you', rollercoasters (not emotional ones, though).
0.00000000009% of the people out there. The needle in the haystack.
Pull Tiger Tail, Keith Warwick, MIKA, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Aimee Mann, Rythm n' Blues, Jazz, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billy Holiday, Grateful Dead, Luscious Jackson, Biggie Biggie Biggie, Dangermouse and Gemini, Hope of the States, The Stones, Pink Floyd, Otis Redding, Cesara Evora, Coldplay, Jewel, Fiona Apple, Jack Johnson........The rest TBC w/ I'm not so tired...Let's just sum it up cause I'm getting tired of lists: anything funk- or soul-orientated, sometimes things that make me cry, and sometimes things that make me remember a particular time or place, some of the new indie, though, sadly, they don't ALL look so hot in those skinny jeans, it takes a certain something to pull that off.
Manhattan, Annie Hall, Take the Money and Run, Interiors, Broadway Danny Rose, Alice, Bullets Over Broadway, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Husbands and Wives, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Deconstructing Harry, Small Time Crooks, Match Point was pretty good, but he's best on his home turf(I love Woody Allen. Oh, if only I were 18, but sadly I'm far too old for the dirty b*****), Raging Bull, Apocalypse Now , The Godfather I & II, People vs. Larry Flint, The King of Comedy (absolutely brilliant), Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Aviator, My Left Foot, Clueless, Shawshank Redemption, Dazed & Confused, The Parent Trap (1961), A Room With a View, The Remains of the Day, Howards End, Gosford Park, Trading Places, Coming to America, Bowfinger, Before Sunrise / Before Sunset, Wizard of Oz, Hidden, Giant, Scarface (Michelle Pfeiffer is ******* *** in this movie, I love all of her dresses), Brokeback Mountain (that's right, you heard me), Happy Gilmore, Father of the Bride, the Princess Bride, Howard the Duck, Breathless (a Bout de Souffle), The Big Lebowski, Mary Poppins
Saturday Night Live (the way it was in the old days), The World's Craziest Police Videos (only because the orange dude's narration makes me laugh v. hard and it reminds me why I'm glad to have left the states). Aside: Most television which is broadcast these days actually makes you less clever.
Pretty much anything Russian (obviously pre 20th century when it all went a bit Social Constructivism meets Post Apocalyptic Doom. What's wrong with a good old fashioned story?), We (this is an exception) by Zamiatin and many of his short stories, eg. The Cave, Gogol's short stories, The Sun Also Rises, Tender is the Night, The Great Gatsby, Age of Innocence, Women in Love, Pilgrim, Breakfast at Tiffanny's (NOT the film, though)....The Education of Little Tree, A Wrinkle in Time (both from my childhood)
Marie Cade, my sisters, Keith Warwick