Home, boundless patience, midnight walks around Silver Lake, the pile of books on my bedside table, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, making food that makes people say "yum yum!", my new just-right brown knee-high riding boots, yoga toes
The new additions to our urban family.
Lisa Tall and Keiko Small. Coming to a bad karaoke dive near you. I'm the tall one.
(In no particular order) In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild, Labyrinth, Rear Window, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss Sunshine, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Wonder Boys, City of God, The Apartment, Amores Perros, Yi yi, Dirty Pretty Things, About a Boy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Remains of the Day, Pan's Labyrinth, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Philadelphia Story, Pride and Prejudice (BBC version), Sleepless in Seattle, It Happened One Night, Talk to Her, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Barbarian Invasions, The Jerk, Office Space, and too many more to remember.
Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, Weeds, Top Chef, Kids in the Hall, Strangers with Candy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice, Emma.
My grandparents, who are quite appropriately named Mary and Joseph.