having friend crushes...and picking favorites nights at the beach, museum visits, day trips to Chicago(or any other big city for that matter), going to bars with fun girls...bars that investment bankers frequent, reading and writing, people who wear glasses, boys who make me laugh, girls who make me smile, necking, flirting, smiling, cooking, being psychic, learning to control my temper, taking care of myself, being a good friend, having good friends, taking and giving advice, appreciating others, being appreciated, the male brain, learning to be more organized, feeling like i'm five, thrift stores where shirts cost cents as opposed to dollars, watching movies, finishing movies, not finishing movies, being on the same page , making smorgisboards with my best friend, giving Amanda quarters to win "friends" out of claw machines, a good pair of shoes, people who don't care about doing what everyone else thinks they're supposed to and instead do whats right for them, making rainy day mix cds, being pleasantly surprised, resisting impulse, amazing song lyrics, giving genuine compliments, laughing till it hurts, my superman watch, humility, finding happiness when its hard to find, long talks with my seven year old sister, waking up at my mom's house, knowing how someone feels without them saying a word, comfortable silence, underwear, my twin bed...most of the time
just him thanks
..leftIN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, and this is definitely not everything...plus i mostly like songs over artists...but most of these people are worth saying i actually like
Feist
Chiodos
Lupe Fiasco
QUEEN...duh
Pearl Jam
The Temptations
Musical Soundtracks, excluding CATS aaand other lame shit
The Stooges
Sublime
Something Corporate
Bird
Nat King Cole
The Doors
Johnny Cash, and not because of the freaking movie, good movie, i just hate it that lots of you fucking idiots had no idea who the hell he was until joaquin phoenix played him after he died...yeah...and fuck people who say they hate country...but want to say they like johnny cash because cash is as country as it gets
The Rolling Stones
David Bowie
Shakira
Ben Folds
Ben Folds Five
No Doubt :( stop making shitty music GWEN, i'm real close to having an intervention for you
Nirvana
Oasis
Modest Mouse
Buddy Holly
George Strait
Janis Joplin
Prince
Beastie Boys
Ella Fitzgerald
John Mellencamp - give it up
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
old Michael Jackson
Motion City Soundtrack
Maria Callas
Alice Cooper
Kathleen Battle
Incubus
Renee Flemming
The Academy Is...
David Byrne
Outkast
Frank Sinatra
AC/DC
The White Stripes
Acceptance
Alice In Chains
Blondie
Iggy Pop
Talking Heads (if you like them too, i bet you're awesome)
The B52s
The Cure
Van Halen
Jim Morrison
The Ramones
Paramore
Jack Johnson
Mozart
Faure
Bob Marley
Say Anything
Dixie Chicks
The Sounds
Bob Dylan
Mary J. Blidge
Britney Spears...ever since she went nuts i can't get enough
Led Zepplelin
Imogen Heap...i'm guessing i'm repeating myself
Cecilia Bartoli
L.L. Cool J
Bright Eyes
Pucinni
i've been bad at seeking out new favorites lately...things get messy and that stuff doesn't matter all that much
Little Miss Sunshine, Singin In The Rain, Getlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, Theres No Business Like Show Business, Some Like It Hot...before listing ever film she's been in I'll just say I can't resist a Marilyn flick, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Rushmore (I'm a fan of Alfred as well) Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Resevoir Dogs, Every single one of the old Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies...I can't resist a cheap horror film, Terms of Endearment(only when i'm in the mood to cry) The Protector (cuz tony jaa is sexy, and he breaks all those arms!!!) Casablanca, Three Ninjas(masterpiece)...i like any movie with that neck snapping sound effect, i looove that sound. Casino, Good Fellas
CNN...cartoons...BET...
The authors i like are; Toni Morrison, Al Franken(i like any liberal whos a total smart ass towards the right), James Baldwin, Faulkner, Steinbeck...I'm interested in any book that is considered a classic, because people need to read them (i just have to pump myself up for the russian novelists) Martha Grimes ...books i have read and enjoyed include, but are not limited to...Memories of My Melancholy Whores(Gabriel Marcia Marquez is a lovely man) , Beloved, Et Tu Babe, Sula, The Bluest Eye, The Fire Next Time, To Kill a Mocking Bird, CivilWarLand in bad decline, Biting The Moon, The Scarlet Letter...I also enjoy collections of well written poetry
I like reading aloud on long car trips either being read to as the driver...or reading to the driver...its usually better than any lame ass radio station
and i'd like to admit this...i've enjoyed a dean koontz novel
Bukowski's fun
My Grandpa and My Mom, of course
but very importantly and a close third to the two
Maggie the Cat
Brick Pollitt: What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?
Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Just staying on it I guess, long as she can.As Well AsAlong with these two