Dredging, petting my kittens and Robert (not at the same time or in the same way). My new baby kitties, Mochi and Tiki. Damn, they are CUTE!!! There's this one hot guy that does rail slides for me just to score points (it TOTALLY works... every time!!). I like beautiful things. Not just classically beautiful things, but things that make me do a double take and then pause for a moment. Could be a flower growing in the crack of the sidewalk, a spider web sparkling in the sun or the way someone parts their hair. I love Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts once a year. I like dive bars, other bars, art, colors, love, fun, design, flowers, painting, music, cooking, dancing, tiki stuff, glitter, holding hands, the beach, holding hands on the beach and the combination of mozzarella cheese, extra-virgin olive oil, tomatoes and basil.
Could he really be out there? Well, in fact he is. And I found him... at a bar. A dive bar. He had a cool hat on. And a stunning smile on. And blue eyes that reflected the PBR he was drinking. He whispers chipmunks sounds into my ear... or dolphin sounds, whichever I ask for. He is sweet, creative, kind, gorgeous, thoughtful, romantic, fun, funny, mine. We are so much more than compatible that there isn't even a word for it. I happen to be the luckiest girl in the world. He is so beautiful that when I look at him my eyes and my face melt like when the Nazis opened the ark and Indie was like "DON'T LOOK AT IT! DON'T LOOK AT IT!!!"
Three Times One Minus One!! Ewww, girl, ewww. Skankin' Pickle! Stevie Wonder, oh sweet Stevie Wonder... And now in no particular order... The "Nutcracker Suite" (it's always Christmas time in my head) and "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky, Amon Tobin, DJ Hive, Bjork, Ella Fitzgerald, Otis Redding, Wanda Jackson, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Les and Mary doing surf tunes, The Mermen, Sigor Ros, Fugazi, Dani Siciliano, Portishead, Desmond Dekker, Earth Wind and Fire, Ratatat, Led Zeppelin, Tool, Barrington Levy, Curtis Mayfield, both Reverends (that's Horton Heat and Al Green), Analyst, Fannypack ("Bacon fat, never wack!"), Prince, The Bad Plus, M. Ward, George Clinton in all his incarnations, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sir Duke, Coltrane, The Phenomenauts, Radiohead, Bessie Smith, John Fahey, Art Blakey, Nina Simone, Yes, Soda Pop Fuck You, Sevara Navarakhan, Rjd2, Prefuse 73, K + D, Betty Davis (not the one with the eyes, but Miles Davis' wife... she made some funky shit in the 70's), Rose Royce, Solomon Burke, James Brown, old Isley Bros, too many other old soul/R + B/funk artists to list, The Smiths, Bauhaus, English Beat, Madness, Adam and The Ants, DM, The Cure, Siouxie and all that other cool shit from back in the day, Natacha Atlas, Tabla Beat Science, DJ Cheb I Sabah, Hindi movie soundtracks, bhangra music and other music with tablas, sitar, etc. Also, I am not afraid to admit that I love, Love, LOVE Hall and Oates, although I'm not a Man Eater.
Army of Darkness, Airplane I and II, Hollywood Shuffle, Kung Pow!, Pooty Tang, Mafia, Spinal Tap, Top Secret, Big Lebowski, Transylvania 6-5000, History of the World I and II, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Full Metal Jacket. Some other favorites... 2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange (there seems to be a theme here), Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Apocalypse Now, Casablanca, Sabrina (the old one with Audrey and Humphrey), Funny Face (with Audrey and Fred Astaire). Soylent Green and Blade Runner are old favorites as well.
Ab Fab, Strangers With Candy, Southpark, the New Detectives and the Daily Show were some of my favorites, but I'm pretty much off the TV now-a-days... except for Saturdays on the PBS station- all cooking shows, all day- which after watching, I will cook somethin' fancy. And Kids in the Hall, what a fucking great show that was.
Just finished a REALLY funny, dark and morbid book called "A Dirty Job." It's about "death merchants" in San Francisco. I recommend it to people who can have a bit of a sense of humor about death and what may happen to our souls around the time of our departures from this mortal coil. Intrigued? Right now I'm reading "Animal Farm"... again. Some others... "RATS- Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants". Before that was "Happy Baby" by Stephen Elliott on a friend's recommendation. What a wonderfully sad story. Very touching. Loved the book "Stiff"... it's a scientific book about what happens to bodies after death, i.e. crash test dummies, medical disection, decomposition research at the 'Body Farm', canabalism, cremation, burial, etc. It's a really interesting book, and actually written in quite an entertaining and funny way, considering the subject matter and all. I'm also in love with every David Sedaris book out there. You can't kill the motherfuckin' rooster, hoss! "Wigfield" is a super funny book written by Amy Sedaris, Steven Colbert and Paul Dinello. Hilarious. I recommend it.
Mi familia y mi Roberto.