good books, good music, good friends (and occasionally bad ones), vodka, laughing at inappropriate moments, otters, angst, Steven Weber, flipflops, lipgloss, Hank's, conversations with cabdrivers, facebook-stalking people with Ana while drinking copious amounts of cranberry & vodkas, victory laps, politics, writing, apple computers, travel
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.â€
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
i love these people.
"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together." - Anais Nin
10,000 Maniacs, Annie Lennox, The Beautiful South, The Doves, Pulp,Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Modest Mouse, The Cure, Gin Blossoms, Nirvana, Iron & Wine, The Postal Service, Deathcab For Cutie, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Damien Rice, INXS, Ivy, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Jem, The Killers, Ladytron, older Liz Phair, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Nick Drake, The Shins, Cat Power, Rilo Kiley, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beth Orton, Neutral Milk Hotel, Red House Painters, Sigur Ros, Weezer, Guster, Scissor Sisters, PJ Harvey, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Imogen Heap, Franz Ferdinand, The Arcade Fire, Cursive, The Doors, Sublime, Aimee Mann, Sarah Brightman, Badly Drawn Boy, Beastie Boys,Cake, Beck, The Darkness, Depeche Mode, Echo & The Bunnymen, Duran Duran, Granddaddy, Hem, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, The Juliana Theory, Keane, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Moby, Cowboy Junkies, Nine Inch Nails, OKGO, Ozma,Rasputina, Rufus Wainwright, the Pixies, Poe, Snow Patrol, Ryan Adams, the Sundays, David Bowie, Wilco, Violent Femmes, Veruca Salt, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, They Might Be Giants, Thievery Corporation, Talking Heads, The Sundays, Songs Ohia, Portishead, the Pixies, Pete Yorn, Peter Gabriel, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, Mazzy Star...an eclectic mix.
Fight Club, Secretary, Kissing Jessica Stein, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, the LOTR trilogy, the original Star Wars trilogy, Jawbreaker, Bound, Gia, Girl Interrupted, Spun, Little Miss Sunshine, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Pirates of the Caribbean, Election, A Tale of Two Sisters, Saved, The Proposition, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Dogma, High Fidelity, tons more than I can remember right now. I love movies, mostly indie and Japanese horror.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Alias, Scrubs, 24, Lost, Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Sealab 2021, X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, The Office (both UK & US versions), My Name Is Earl, Project Runway, Prison Break, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Squidbillies...yeah, I watch a lot of tv.
""I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. - Sylvia Plath
"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books." - Voltaire
I am a voracious reader. I can't even begin to list the books I own, much less the ones I've read, and to pick favorites would be entirely impossible. I'll read anything once, and if it's good I'll inevitably read it so many times it falls apart. My bookshelf actually collapsed earlier this week from the weight of too many books - so that should tell you something about me.
"You know, if it wasn't 7:30 in the morning, I would have a drink." --Ava Gardner.
"I tell you, I'm the mad sister, family problem, the one they don't speak about." --Katharine Hepburn.
"In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she's a feminist or a masochist."
—Gloria Steinem
"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." - Madonna