I've been told I work a lot. Someone told me once that I am a spiffy dresser and a not so spiffy joke teller. I like many things. I am totally an old fashioned romantic. Sorry folks, the rumors are true.
photography. art. traveling anywhere new. exploring. learning about people and their new found quirks. sleeping. good music. hiking. walking. meditating. relaxing.
I love.
sleeping in sunny windows.
photography.
sweet holga
old cameras to take apart and putting them back together.
baking cakes for friends.
hugs.
kisses.
pleasant conversation.
time.
my family.
my friendships.
traveling until the day i die.
green things.
being comfortable.
especially in my skin.
songs that make me think i'm 5 again.
reading.
the smell of a library.
writing letters.
writing stories about being 5 again.
love.
romance.
polka dots.
vintage fabric.
knitting.
willow trees.
my sewing machine.
costume jewerly.
thrift stores.
cuddling in a cocoon of blankets.
long distance, late night calls.
my crooked nose.
1950's kitchen gadgets and aprons.
Yes, zombie-killing-bare-assed-slow-talking-action heros. So what of it!? Mmmm Mungo. Not mango.
the flaming lips, sufjan stevens, the mars volta, andrew bird, kinky, the winter blanket, jolie holland, rufus wainwright, texas is the reason, the cat empire, dean martin, billie holiday, sigur ros, sondre lerche, badly drawn boy, the fire theft, romantica, aretha franklin, duke ellington, jimmy eat world, montreal, modest mouse, the postal service, death cab for cutie, sunny day, duran duran, superchunk, gbv, e.l.o., and e.l.no (of course), kid dakota, spaghetti western, quicksand, Starflyer 59, styrofoam, fitzgerald, rogue wave, the decemberists, the shins, lovedrug, halloween alaska, the kinks, chubby checker, rocky votolato, devotchka, tribe called quest, belle & sebastian, superchunk, falling forward, sick of it all.
breakfast at tiffany's. sixteen candles. arsenic and old lace. roman holiday. dead alive. undead. smoke signals. the royal tenenbaums. city of god.
"One day your out on your boat and you get attacked by zombie fish, they munch at your face, like you're the main course at an all you can eat crazy country boy buffet. You walk away, tell the town your story; they think your mad. Everyone thinks your mad, you think I'm mad. It happens again, this time it's not zombie fish it's zombie Berkeley. But this time I'm prepared, I'm ready to fight whatever they can throw at me. Still i wasn't strong enough, the strongest ones are always the last ones left; if that's not me, it must be you. If that was the case you wouldn't have battled the undead and lived. You'd be the entree at a smorgasboard of brainfood."
Law and Order, Arrested Development, Heroes, Monk, Channel 2, Chapelle's Show.
Anything by David Sedaris, Shel Silverstein, Tony Hillerman, Wuthering Heights. I love reading cookbooks. Is that weird?
my dad. as missed as he is. he is still loved by many.