Writing. Reading. Naps. More naps. Pedicures. Yoga. Ghosthunting. Gardening. Jezebel.com. Spontaneous day trips. Reading the Tarot. Drinking tea. Good cosmetics. Lying outside on a blanket to study the clouds and stars, and appreciate the way the treetops meet the sky. Lilacs. Wood burning stoves. White lights. Candy corn. Old houses. Roadside diners. Ginger ale. The Magdalene as muse. Garden gnomes. Sun-dried tomatoes. Shoes, especially in patent leather. The artwork of Stephen Mackey. Fireworks. Bonfires.It's really the little things in life that bring me great joy....like this tiny, gay dancing Spiderman: ..
I like people who have nothing to prove and everything to offer in terms of knowledge, kindness, warmth and ambition for things other than money. I do not like people who are obnoxious, self-important, privileged, afraid to think for themselves, or who possess a sense of entitlement. No thanks! And I absolutely cannot stand people who dress babies in professional sports apparel. I, mean, really...ugh.
Everything good, trust me. ..
Amelie, Wizard of Oz, The Notebook, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, What Dreams May Come, It's A Wonderful Life, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Beauty, LOTR, Kill Bill, Legends of the Fall, Love Actually, Bridget Jones' Diary, The Sixth Sense, Serendipity, Singles, High Fidelity, Office Space, Like Water For Chocolate, Stand By Me, Night of the Living Dead, Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, E.T., Edward Scissorhands, Gremlins, March of the Wooden Soldiers, Chronicles of Narnia. Pan's Labyrinth. My favorite film of all time is this monkey washing a cat: ..
The Riches. Little People, Big World and every TLC show about rare medical conditions. Rock of Love. (I know, I know...) The Daily Show. The Colbert Report. The Soup. Antiques Roadshow. Cops. Project Runway. The New Adventures of Old Christine.I miss Carnivale, Six Feet Under and Strangers with Candy...
I am a proud word nerd. Especially adore that old book or new book smell (why don't books have a distinctive smell when they are inbetween being new and old?) I treasure F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Paulo Coelho, David Sedaris, CS Lewis, Alice Sebold, Cintra Wilson, Pablo Neruda, e.e. cummings. Anything related to the paranormal, forensics or spirituality. Biographies of legends, mythology, Old Hollywood, tales of people who overcome ugly circumstances to find a Better Way and anything set in the Civil War or 19th century America. ..
Tori Amos.The staff of Franklin 4. The inventor of Guru Energy Drinks. Jerri Blank. Boone the Bear.All those who have overcome the odds. My hippos. STEPHEN COLBERT.Wildlife rehabilitators.David Sedaris. Eddie Izzard.Cary Tennis. Tim Gunn. Oh, and one more: (ABSOLUTELY NO REGRETS.) ..