After the last scene, in which I appeared alive, my mom and one of the girls in the play would take me downstairs to the ladies’ room and bloody me up with red grease paint and brown eyeliner, smudged to look like dirt, bruises, and the occasional hematoma. I remember catching a glimpse of myself in the mirror before I got carried on dead one night. It was a little startling. I made a mental note against death by chariot.
For more about me, check out my essay at Fresh Yarn .High ceilings, modern eyeglasses, perfectly-timed comically-droll statements, surround sound, grinding my own beans, Marushka screen prints, clean fingernails, clean lines, clean laundry, funny writing of surprising depth, "on" sale as opposed to "for" sale, exposed brick, a good turn of phrase, laughter-through-tears, running, jumping, climbing trees, working out, conversation, Karl Jung, my toes in a deep shag rug, a view of the hills, knit one--purl two, triple lattes, triple axels, triplicate, revamped, recovery, "restart" as opposed to "shut down", being under thick blankets in a cold room.
The me that I will be in about 7 years.
New song I like:
Amy Lee (Evanescence)
SONG: GOOD ENOUGH
ALBUM: THE OPEN DOOR
Mika, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Death Cab for Cutie, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor, The Postal Service, Madeleine Peyroux, Erlend Oye, Thievery Corporation, Joseph Arthur, Kings of Convenience, My Barbarian, Indigo Girls, Linda Ronstadt.
Guilty Pleasures: The Kelly Family, Amy Grant, Richard Marx.
Half Nelson, Brick, Clue, Heathers, Mary Poppins, 28 Days Later, Lilies, Die Mommie Die!, Steel Magnolias, The Spanish Apartment (l'auberge espagnole), The Royal Tenenbaums, Carrie, anything with Karen Black, John Watters, Hitchcock.
Guilty pleasures
"You Can't Stop the Music," the story of the Village People as a musical movie(!) and "Staying Alive," the sequel to Saturday Night Fever. On Lifetime: "My Stepson, My Lover" with Josh Morrow & Rachel Ward, "Touched By Evil" with Paula Abdul.
Brothers & Sisters, Dexter, Weeds, 30 Rock, The Office, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, The Simpsons, Fame LA, Cop Rock, South Park, Ab Fab, French and Saunders, Dallas, Jem & the Holograms
CURRENTLY READING
Michael Tolliver Lives
Armistead Maupin
The Battle for God
Karen Armstrong
Blankets
Craig Thompson
Grace Eventually
Anne Lamott
FAVORITES
There's not enough room here...
Zipped
Laura & Tom McNeal
Mississippi Sissy
Kevin Sessums
Boy Meets Boy
The Realm of Possibility
David Levithan
Godless
Pete Hautman
Bird by Bird, Plan B
Anne Lamott
Writing Down the Bones
Natalie Goldberg
At Swim Two Boys
Jamie O'Neill
Giovanni's Room
William Baldwin
Naked, Barrel Fever, etc.
David Sedaris
The Kin of Atta are Waiting for You
Dorthy Bryant
Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
Generation X, Shampoo Planet
Douglas Coupland
The Secret History
Donna Tart
Fraud
David Rakoff
Julie Andrews, David Sedaris