Designer shoes; Champagne; Guinness; oysters; fried chicken, biscuits, potato salad and pigs-in-a-blanket; George Clooney; two-hand touch football and anything Zog Related (go seafoam!); writing drinking games; brunching; karaoke; Momofuku Ssam Bar; reading Gothamist, Fashionista, and Eater obsessively; roller skating; pretending I live in Tribeca; and acquiring as many frequent flier miles as possible.
Rockstars, competitive eaters, Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld, Lindsay Lohan. And I've officially met Mario Batali, so he's off the list.
Just saw in concert: The National at the Seaport. Yay, big cups of beer from Jeremy's!
Les Savy Fav, LCD Soundsystem, AND Arcade at Randall's Island. What!!
Just paid $10 to see: Ratatouille
Just Netflixed: Born into Brothels; The Untold Story of Emmmett Louis Till
Personal favs: Rear Window, To Kill a Mockingbird, Singin' in the Rain, Do the Right Thing, Annie Hall, City of God, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Major League, Office Space, Cruel Intentions, Hotel Rwanda, Lost in Translation, Primary Colors, Mean Girls (love the Hohan), American Beauty, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, any Almodovar, Harold and Maude, La Dolce Vita, Down by Law, Bullets over Broadway, Bringing Up Baby, West Side Story, Camp, Center Stage, Almost Famous, Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating
The Amazing Race; Arrested Development; No Reservations; everything on HBO, Food Network and MTV; I Love New York; INTERVENTION!!!!!; Weeds; South Park; Project Runway, Jeopardy; Family Guy; America's Next Top Model; 24; Bizarre Foods; The Office; Project Runway; Top Design; Top Chef
Just read: Nasty Bit/Bourdain; The Devil in the Kitchen/Marco Pierre White
Favs on the bookshelf in front of me: Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Color of Water, lots of Augusten Burroughs, lots of David Sedaris, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Honky, A Million Little Pieces...okay, what does it say about me that the majority of my favorite books deal with race, family dysfunction, and/or drug & alcohol abuse...
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