traveling and sending postcards to myself, good movies, laughing with friends, baking and eating cupcakes, books, music, listening to npr on saturdays, friendly kittens and hugable big dogs, shoes, candy, the usual stuff.
I'd like to meet:
people who like to laugh and make me laugh. witty people. creative people. people that like to travel but also like to stay home. people who love my cats. people that appreciate a good piece of candy or dessert. particularly key lime.
Music:
otis redding, nina simone, the beatles, morphine, built to spill, johnny cash, the zombies, eels, murder city devils, patsy cline, patti smith, fredric chopin, smiths, david bowie, pixies, white stripes, nick cave, elvis costello, doris day, tom waits, modest mouse, connie francis, leonard cohen, bauhaus, ella fitzgerald, handsome family, billy bragg, jonathan richman, louis prima... i often decide i don't like something until i listen to it several times, then decide i do; i don't like reggae no matter how much i listen to it.
Movies:
cinema paradiso, flirting, labyrinth, after life, spellbound, dr. strangelove, blue, white and red, amelie and other jeunet films, mr smith goes to washington and other capra films, godfather, the sweet hereafter, the usual suspects, harold and maude, , saddest music in the world, groundhog day, wizard of oz, lost in translation, memento, rushmore (although i haven't seen it in years), high fidelity, an american in paris, better off dead, faherenheit 9/11, dirty rotten scoundrels, la femme nikita (not the remake), fog of war, lawrence of arabia, holy grail, my fair lady, the sting, the umbrellas of cherbourg
Television:
sifl and olly, simpsons, ellen's show, oprah sometimes, i miss 'the travelers', 'junkyard wars' and discovery channel--i no longer have cable; antiques roadshow when i'm in the mood, the amazing race, jeopardy!, my guilty pleasures are alias and desperate housewives (i know, i know). i watch more than i should, but get easily sucked in to bad shows.
Books:
the stranger, unhappy death, the giving tree, the velveteen rabbit, 100 years of solitude, harry potter, beauty charm grace, the complete book of composting, jake's book of mythical beasts, i smell esther williams, my cousin my gastroenterologist, naked, me talk pretty one day, cannery row, to kill a mockingbird, slaughterhouse five, the corrections, tin tin, haven't liked the last several books i've read, but hopeful...
Heroes:
my wonderful mother (r.i.p., sweet one)
