I want somebody who sees the pointlessness
and still keeps their purpose in mind
I want somebody who has a tortured soul
some of the time
I want somebody who will either put out for me
or put me out of misery
or maybe just put it all to words
and make me say, you know
I never heard it put that way
make me say, what did you just say?
I want somebody who can hold my interest
hold it and never let it fall
someone who can flatten me with a kiss
that hits like a fist
or a sentence, that stops me like a brick wall
because if you hear me talking
listen to what I'm not saying
if you hear me playing guitar
listen to what I'm not playing
and don't ask me to put words
to all the spaces between notes
in fact if you have to ask, forget it
do and you'll regret it
I'm tired of being the interesting one
I'm tired of having fun for two
just lay yourself on the line
and I might lay myself down by you
but don't sit behind your eyes
and wait for me to surprise you
I want somebody who can make me
scream until it's funny
give me a run for my money
I want someone who can
twist me up in knots
tell me, for the woman who has everything
what have you got?
I want someone who's not afraid of me
or anyone else
in other words I want someone
who's not afraid of themself
...do you think I'm asking too much?
-Ani DiFranco
Also: the kickass woman who wrote that. Bob Dylan. Phoebe Buffay. Jonathan Safran Foer.
"The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."
Before Sunset, Shopgirl, Matchpoint, V for Vendetta, Almost Famous, Blow, Dazed and Confused, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Eurotrip, Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, Zoolander, Amelie, Mean Girls, Life as a House
is not life.
But I do watch Grey's obsessively, to the point where I talk about the characters like they're friends. Speaking of Friends, love that too. Damnit I do watch TV.
Kensington Gardens, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Adbusters magazine, the last Harry Potter
Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, White Oleander, Middlesex, Youth in Revolt, The Other Side of Paradise, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Perks of being a Wallflower, Beloved, Confederacy of Dunces, Memoirs of a Gheisa, Chronicles, The Beaches of Falesa, On the Road, Ariel but really anything by Sylvia Plath, The Prophet, Of Human Bondage, Harry fucking Potter! The OZ Books, Chronicles of Narnia, old music reviews by Lester Bangs, collections of letters, most poetry by Philip Larkin, Adrienne Rich, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Bishop, others...
My dad. My sisters. All of my friends for different reasons. My English teachers.