slightly sarcastic smiling at strangers, tomato picking, shooting random photos, feeling good in a non self-destructive way, yoga, playing piano to impress myself, looking for my 30s cause i seem to have misplaced my 20s, moonlighting as a volunteer food and book critic, believing i can sing like joni mitchell in the car, OPH (other people's HBO), OPP, fighting cynicism, spreading cocoa-love (not coca-love), sunday parties with ira glass & too much coffee(decaf), crest white-stripping, stripping, exploring north philadelphia with miranda, waiting for the dream to end
latest obsessions: grapefruit and neo-bagism
*counting number 15 trolleys as they roll by in their enviro-electronica glory, when i should be sleeping
al pacino, ca. 1972
band-dropping is trite but i'll play along. VERVE, dylan, selected sixties rock&roll, stone roses, MBV, ride, lilys, brian jonestown, yo la tengo, blondie, nico and the velvet underground, the cars & of course nothing but love for the smiths
in rotation in my mind:
the talking heads-77, AUM, can-innerspace &
the "orange juice on ice" jingle from midnight cowboy.
harold & maude, party girl or anything with parker posey, ghost world, donnie darko, heathers, rosemary's baby, oldboy, lost in translation, little miss sunshine
X X X
so many... wilde, moliere, gibran, plath, r.m. rilke, sarah vowell, jeffrey eugenides (middlesex and virgin suicides) to name a fewcurrently: B.K.S Iyengar; just finished Eggers' What is the What. What the F? some serious stuff.
dylan, richard (heart) ashcroft, khalil gibran, frida kahlo, katharine hepburn, and all of my friends for various reasons
*sean mccabe for flawlessly doing whatever the fuck you wanted to do without compromise and for leading me down the righteous path of rebellion