"...Children when they ask you why is your mama so funny
say she is a poet she don't have no sense"
-Lucille Clifton
my three heartbeats, hanging out with the husband, reading and writing but no arithmetic, popcorn movie night, people who never ask "is it art?", plastic bag in the wind sort of beauty, knowing the Loch Ness monster lives.
Someone handing me a key to a rooftop apartment where the sky just wheels around my windows looking at its own reflection in the glass. And oh yeah, rent's cheap.
All sorts with the possible exception of marching bands. Unless they have bagpipes. Bagpipes, of course, are fabulous. Also, being of Celtic descent, anything hauntingly bleak rocks my world. Aonaibh ri cheile!
Lost in Translation, About A Boy, The Royal Tenenbaums, Proof, Stranger Than Fiction, Shadowlands, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Jaws, Shaun of the Dead, Big, Parenthood, A Knight's Tale, Chinatown, Love, Actually, O Lucky Man, Lawrence of Arabia, Caberet, Big Fish, Mary Poppins, Blade Runner, Little Miss Sunshine, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Deer Hunter, Ghostbusters, Tootsie, Lake Placid, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry met Sally, Kill Bill, The Terminator, Gigi, Anchorman, Tomasina, Harry Potter, tons of old movies especially Some Like it Hot, Roman Holiday, Bringing up Baby, disaster films, and B-movies where the giant spider or the slime monster gets everyone...
Why won't the DVR tape the entire show - why must it omit the last five minutes? Why?
hanging out at www.goodreads.com.
Pretty much everyone. Life is difficult. We're all pretty bloody terrific just muddling through.