big dogs. small apartments. high ceilings. low beds. long cars. short hair. hot colors. frosty beverages. i like guitar solos, overactive bass-lines, french horn flourishes and accordion filler-inners. if you call it disco, i'll still give it a chance. bubble wrap, shiny things, big sunglasses, thrift shops and white furniture.
i'll give most things a chance. most of my friends are music snobs, i rarely take their suggestions seriously, even though i should. i listen to pop radio and often re-live the 90s by digging up my eclectic country and world music collections.
montage
examples: Real Genius, The Lost Boys, Monster Squad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, probably every sports movie ever, probably every movie that plays on TNT on the weekends, Mannequin, Highlander, Revenge of the Nerds, Better off Dead, Teen Wolf, Footloose, Dirty Dancing, Top Gun, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Pretty Woman, every 80s movie.
it's better than tv.
and then there's tv on my computer:
substitute "Mondays 9/8c" for whenever i feel like it
lolita is the book that made me read again after a public school hiatus. i'm a shakespeare nerd, but i still don't read enough. anything chabon, esp. summerland. you say it's for kids, but what do you know? anything robbins, though they're sometimes hard to get through and i've really only ever finished one. short stories. carver, cheever, oconnor. non-fiction. bill bryson, luc sante, jon krakauer. i finally found confederacy of dunces (toole) in the trunk of my car and finished it after about a year. or more. just finished potters four through seven. currently: spook: science tackles the afterlife by mary roach who also wrote maybe my favorite non-fiction book ever, stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers.
David Bowie as Mime.