Wine! Books! Bikes! Dance! politics love art music gardening building! post-neo-and-third-wave-Feminism! Kiki. THE MANDOLIN and my phantom double time hand.
yes, please. i love it all the time, especially playing it. i play guitar and mandolin, i think i might have actually been born to play the mandolin, but only time will tell. i like everything everything everything and lots of it! hands down favorite: tom waits but after that it's a toss up between everyone else and anything with an accordion. i'm a pretty big fan of my band, too.IN HEAVY ROTATION AT THE MOMENT: Sondre Lerche, Emma PollockBEST BAND EVER: Guy Town! (see my top three for the guy town hotties.)
godfather I and II, delicatessen, mystery train, the saddest music in the world, before sunrise/sunset, high plains drifter, down by law, and seriously, i love both legally blonde movies. pretty much, again, everything.
i used to have a reality television "problem", but it's been cured. all i did was substitute practicing music, dancing in my kitchen, riding and building bikes, and lots of decadent nightlife activities when i felt like turning on the tv. duh.
MOST RECENT READS: cloud atlas (yuck), lovely bones (bleh) READING: i'm immersed in buddhist books to save my weary soul right now FAVORITES: everything is illuminated, the border trilogy, their eyes were watching god, the sound and the fury, the dictionary. oh, i love the dictionary.
top five hero/ines: 1) female musicians. especially the holy trio: dolly parton, emmylou harris, and linda ronstadt. ("what would dolly do?") 2) my bandmates 3) my fabulous family, including my favorite boy in the whole damn world, jonathan. ever do it with cousins? 4) activists practicing nonviolent resistance 5) my mother and father and stepfather