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My sister and I:We can only carry the past with us, nothing is forever:
Make sure you make the best of what you have, never stop loving, never stop being grateful.
Anything mind-blowing.
"I am not bent on being miserable," said Isabel. "I have always been intensely determined to be happy, and I have often believed I should be. I have told people that; you can ask them. But it comes over me every now and then that I can never be happy in any extraordinary way; not by turning away, by separating myself.""By separating yourself from what?""From life. From the usual chances and dangers, from what most people now and suffer." -Portrait of A Lady
Radiohead, The Verve, Blur, Massive Attack, Poe, Belle & Sebastian, The Shins, Iron & Wine, Robert Johnson, Sun House, Charlie Parker, Django Rhinehardt, Talking Heads, Nick Drake, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Chemical Brothers, Moby, Rilo Kiley, Chris Issak, The Clumsy Lovers, Mark Mothersbaugh (the Bottlerocket Soundtrack), Billie Holiday, Prodigy, Wilco, Old 97's, Ryan Adams (NOT Bryan Adams), Townes Van Zandt, Sam Cooke, and a bunch of others I can't think of right now
Anything with a good story. Movies are meant to be an escape from reality and I love to escape from reality as much as possible.
What's that? Ohh, you mean the noisy thing in everyone's living room that sometimes has The Simpsons on it. Yeah, I think I've heard of that before.
Wow where do I begin? Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life with Woodpecker. Gerald Callahan: Faith, Madness and Spontaneous Human Combustion explains why we get those prickly feelings on the back of our necks, and the bizarre life cycles of parasites, as well as mitochodria. This book is the perfect blend of science and poetry. Richard Stivers: Technology as Magic you will never look at a toaster or your computer the same way again. Louis De Bernieres: Corelli's Mandolin You don't have to read the whole book just the chapter "How like a Woman is a Mandolin" pure poetry. Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America, and The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster It is my new personal mission to tell Everyone about this incredible poet. Neal Cassidy's Joan Anderson letter blows everything Jack Kerouac wrote out of the water. I haven't read a book by Milan Kundera I didn't like. Irvine Welsh, Nick Hornby, William Gibson, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, P.G. Wodehouse. etc. etc.
My sister Emily. She defies all the odds and manages to be completely original. I bet she's exhausted all the time.