being a literary dilettante, dance, used bookstores, coconut mochas from padgett station, my spice grinder, writing letters, karen's living room, finding the perfect sentence, procrastination, cilantro, cardamom, cumin, npr, old volvos, being the most annoying big sister ever
salman rushdie and santa claus
currently loving: m.i.a., norah jones, cheb mami, namie amuro, rachmaninoff, kaiti garbi, faudel, amadou et mariam, asha bhosle & other bollywood, bhangra, astrud gilberto, ace of bace, shakira, britney, aerosmith
the emperor's new groove, closer, bride and prejudice, lost in translation, water, farewell my concubine, cinema paradiso, harold and kumar go to white castle, bridget jones' diary, manhattan, harold and maude
THE COSBY SHOW, conan o'brien, the food network, sesame street, the office, the colbert report, all japanese soaps
f scott fitzgerald, salman rushdie, john irving, haruki murakami, jhumpa lahiri, the sun also rises by hemingway, anais nin, the fountainhead by ayn rand, banana yoshimoto, david sedaris, harry potter, gabriel garcia marquez, hanif kureishi, allen ginsberg, the polar express, willie perdomo, nikolai gogol, j.d. salinger, hattie and the wild waves by barbara cooney, tom wolfe, zadie smith, z z packer, shusaku endocurrently reading: the diary of anais nin vol 3; the age of micropop: the new generation of japanese artists; install by wataya risa; last evenings on earth by robert bolano