being a damn good lawyer, my wonderful boyfriend, shopping, yoga, biking, skiing, volunteer work, reading, getting smarter, being around intellectual people and having good conversations with them, traveling, being environmental (i thought it would never happen to me!), improving my apartment and coming up with creative ways to get people to help me with projects that require the use of tools, gossip magazines (i'm glad no one followed ME around in my 20s!), music, dancing, being a reformed party girl, getting home at a decent hour, going to the movies and eating popcorn (yum!), staying home with netflix, being social, being outdoors, the beach, pools, spending time with my parents, giving really good presents, texting, not cooking, not cleaning, seeing my stylist, seeing my dermatologist, going to the spa and taking care of myself generally, getting fashion ideas in sex shops:
people who can handle reality (few and far between). people who are smarter than me (so i can learn from them). people who are positive. people who are generous. people who are creative. people who are inspiring. people who want to help me fill in this map:and my friends....over and over again. i'm lucky! :)
I have to be serious about music:Killers, Interpol, Get Up Kids, Bright Eyes, Postal Service, Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, Operation Ivy, Lily Allen, Bloc Party, Hot Chip, Shiny Toy Guns (thanks Mimosa!);M.F. Doom, J Zone, Prince Paul, Cormega, Raekwon, Nas, Biggie, Mobb Deep, 50 Cent, Game, Tribe Called Quest, Common, Kanye West, Wu Tang, De La Soul, Goodie Mob, Jay-Z, Brooklyn Academy, Swizz Beatz, Pitbull, radio hip hop (yeah, and what?), Justin Timberlake (yum!), Timbaland.Old School Drum&Bass (Jonny L, Omni Trio, LTJ Bukem, Peshay, Blame, DJ Rap, Aphrodite, anything on Moving Shadow, anything associated with DJ Hype, etc. etc.), electro, breaks, Chemical Brothers, Fischerspooner, Neil Landstrumm, Elektroids. And the best song ever is "I WANT YOU" by Jonny L;Dead Kennedys (and involving Jello Biafra generally), Dead Milkmen, Cure, Depeche Mode, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Smiths, Morrissey, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joy Division, New Order, Violent Femmes, Doors, Desmond Dekker (I'm indifferent about the Aces), Dave Matthews when its sunny out, Frank Sinatra and lots of it! Dean Martin, Bob Dylan, the Doors (mmmm....Jim Morrison), Peggy Lee (so cool), anything played on the Frank Sinatra station that my dad listens to on that crazy radio you pay for. Also, who can't help but like reggaeton every once in a while?
Donnie Darko, Napolean Dynomite, Garden State, 24 Hour Party People, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Bank, Return of the Jedi (except the part with the stupid Ewoks and their planet that should have been blown up), Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Red Shoes, Goodfellas, Batman Begins, Party Girl, Gone With the Wind, titanic (i can't help it, its romantic), Boogie Nights, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Grease, Hairspray (original, John Waters version, although the new one is cute), Traffic, House of Wax (seriously), Rosemary's Baby, House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects, Halloween (the original and most definitely rob zombie's version!!), Old School, Almost Famous, Heat, The Neverending Story, Finding Neverland, Basquiat, The Krays, My Summer of Love, 40 Year Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, The People vs. Larry Flynt, the Aviator, Drop Dead Fred, Shopgirl, the Illusionist, the OH in Ohio, that Walmart documentary (omg! Walmart is SOOOO evil!), Volver, Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, 300, Spiderman 1 - 3, The Big Easy (so sexy!), the Prestige, Lives of Others, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Feeling Minnesota, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Dark Knight
TUDORS. TUDORS. JONATHAN RYHS MEYERS. TUDORS. TUDORS.LOST, weeds, heroes, anything in animation.
i read the ny times every day (except weekends). random family by leblanc. bringing down the house by mezrich. middlesex by eugenis. house of sand & fog by dubus. the lovely bones by sebold. franny & zooey by salinger. veronica by mary gaitskill, the devil in the white city by erik larson, the corrections by jonathan franzen, killing pablo by mark bowden, forever by judy blume, anything by greg iles, scar tissue by anthony keidis, first there is a mountain by elizabeth kadetsky, drugs are nice by lisa crystal carver, beautiful children by charles bock, holy cow! by sarah macdonald, party monster by james st. james, and i'm reading those teenager "twilight" books.....so what? everyone else read stupid harry potter and those are children's books! i can fantasize about hot vampires if i want. :p
Marc Jacobs. Sharks. CIA agents. Really good trial lawyers. Doctors. People who are rebuilding New Orleans. People who are smarter than me.