getting lost in beautiful places, art therapy, art history/archaeology, painting, shopping for art supplies/thinking about art supplies/trying not to eat my sexy art supplies, making jewellery, travelling, exploring, listening to music/buying music/going to concerts/hanging out at local record stores, reading, writing articles that will never see the light of day, caffeinating myself, confusing people, covering things in gauze, portly bagels, yoga/pilates, philosophy, ethnomusicology, meeting people who teach me new things
Meeting new people scares me, which stems from my days as a hermitty book-worm/child who lived under the stairs. Although I do like talking to people who are unconventional, a bit quirky and weird, and sometimes say funny or intellectual things.
I came to the realization today, that after my life/health and that of my friends and family, the thing I would hate to lose the most would be my CD collection. Priorities, priorities... That being said, I will say this, quite redundantly...I really love music. Here are some artists I especially enjoy: James Brown, Otis Redding, Elvis, Ted Leo+The Pharmacists, Sigur Ros, Manic Street Preachers, Beck, Weezer, Ben Folds, The Black Keys, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Cure, The Pixies, Pink Floyd, Fiona Apple, Cake, The Shins, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Interpol, The Dears, Nick Drake, Tom Waits, Elliot Smith, The Clash, controller.controller, Modest Mouse, Wilco, Belle & Sebastian, The Decemberists, Badly Drawn Boy, The Hidden Cameras, Bright Eyes, The Arcade Fire, NERD, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Mr. Something Something, Esthero, Ehud Banai, Arkadi Duchin, Ivri Lider, Barry Sakharoff.
Kill Bill, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Office Space, City of God, Amelie, The Matrix, Secretary, Death to Smoochy, Y Tu Mama También, Talk to Her, The Dreamers, Reality Bites, Motorcycle Diaries.
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk or Kurt Vonnegut, Timonthy Findley, Chuck Klosterman, Dave Eggers (especially "How We Are Hungry"); Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Time Traveller's Wife, The Red Tent, Imagining Argentina.
My 7 year old sister.