Writing. Reading. Travel. What goes on in people's heads. Musicmusicmusic. Conversation when I'm in the mood. Moping when I'm not. Sewing sometimes. TV for the end of the day. Fiction for the end of the end of the day.
I'd like to meet:
The Beatles. Barring that, published writers. (Yeah, I'm a snob about it. So sue me.) Dedicated readers. Artists. Cranky people. Cynics. Shrinks. Musicians, although they can be pains in the ass. What do you call a lead singer without a girlfriend?
Music:
Rap, not so much. Fusion, not at all. Everything else. Pop. (Pink. Madonna. Shakira) Punk. (Ramones. More Ramones. Blondie.) Swing. (Benny Goodman. Ella Fitzgerald. Glenn Miller.) Jazz. (Louis Armstrong. Oscar Peterson. Blossom Dearie. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.) Other. (Tegan and Sara. Belle & Sebastian. Jim Campliongo.) Yeah, even Broadway musicals. Yet more horrifying, Gilbert & Sullivan. I have no shame. ABBA. Los Straightjackets. Aimee Mann. Steve Earle. Jenny Lewis. Little Willies. Avril Lavigne. De Phazz. Sheryl Crow. JET. Mosquitoes. Jayhawks. Dusty Springfield. The Carpenters. Dolly Parton. St. Germaine. Talking Heads. Dwight Yoakam. Frank Sinatra. Franz Ferdinand. Dido. Bette Midler. Apples in Stereo. Bee Gees. Simon & Garfunkle. Herb Alpert. My iPod is a close personal friend.
Movies:
Who can think of them all? Annie Hall Manhattan Broadway Danny Rose Crimes and Misdemeanors Hannah and Her Sisters etc. Anything Busby Berkeley, especially The Gang's All Here. Cast Away. All About Eve and pretty much anything with Bette Davis, camp or not. Ditto Jimmy Cagney. American Beauty. Ramones: End of the Century. Badlands. Some Kind of Monster. Midnight Cowboy. Adaptation. Election.
Television:
The Office. What Not To Wear. The Office. The Daily Show. The Office.
Books:
Sinclair Lewis' Main Street once a year. Henry James over and over, also Edith Wharton. Jane Austen every few years. Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad a few times and Bill Bryson anytime. If you haven't read "A Short History of Nearly Everything," that is your next assignment. Nick Hornby and Anne Tyler. Sometimes Mary Gaitskill. Elizabeth Enright is comfort food for very bad times. I live by the values I learned in A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett.) I'll think of more later.Read about my books at www.yankeechick.comAnd no, I don't love Dr. Phil
Heroes:
John Lennon. Edith Wharton. Henry James. Bill Bryson. Woody Allen (minus the creepy bits). What does it all mean?
