creating entropy (famous for making a mess), mucking with clay, black and white photography, blogging, coffee, coffee, coffee, great books and great movies, attending live shows, tickling and smelling cactus's paws & ears when she's sleeping, obsessively arranging & rearranging all the tchotckes in my room, flea marketing, old records and midnite walking...
peeps i wanna meet: luis baragon, louis kahn, andy riley, yohji yamamoto, steven holl, zaha hadid, rick joy, walter gropius, maurice sendak, faulkner, vonnegut, my great grandfather on mom's side (poet), cristobal balenciaga, henri cartier-bresson, kilgore trout...have met: 3.07.07 met maya lin & paul auster in one day... maya in the morning and paul at night... angela davis (beautiful head of hair!!!) billie hsieh, john irving (broken finger), renzo piano, norman mailer (slightly sleazy), bill clinton (cold large hands), martin amis (w/a blonde clad in valentino hanging on his saville row bespoke suit), duane michels, muhammad ali...i like the vulnerable side, i.e. cactus when she rolls over and shows me her belly. adorable and innocent. so yes, someone who shows me his soft belly...morally upright but not a religious fanatic... does not give money but food to the homeless...someone who does not do one night stands...a manboy who sings in the shower (so i can laugh out loud outside)...someone who appreciates my cooking (i am a fantastic and gutsy chef) and loves to travel and explore WITH me... absolutely cannot mind the fact that i hate hiking (due to my insect phobia--i scream bloody murder when a moth/butterfly flies anywhere near me) and someone who loves the sound of waves crashing against each other as much as i do...who sees beyond what is skin deep and zeroes into the intensity beneath the surface of the calm.
tindersticks, prefab sprout, leonard cohen, the national, trashcan sinatras, tom waits, WHAM, cowboy junkies, doves, iron & wine, the shins, carmen (the opera), anything chopin (esp stuff composed while with george sand), calexico, yo la tengo, sufjan stevens, chet baker, adderley cannonball, nina simone, sarah vaughan and oh so many more...
blade runner, dirty filthy love, SECRETARY!!! (SEXY!!!) red (anything by krysztof kieslowski), happiness, in the mood for love, the city of sadness (anything hou hsiao hsien makes!!!), say anything, the breakfast club, la dolce vita, butterfield 8 (i want a slip like the one liz taylor wore!!!), chinatown, 8 1/2 and anything artsy fartsy or extremely low brow...ie. boomerang, harold and kumar go to white castle, etc.
macgyver, air wolf, king of the hill, the west wing, the sopranos, seinfeld, doraimo, early 6 ft under, assorted pbs programs, etc.
current acquisition: w.s.merwin's migration... andy riley's bunny suicides... perennial favs: the sound and the fury (major major crush on quentin compson in my 20's, erudite & sensitive but his kind of indecisiveness leaves me cold and irritated in my 30's), master and margarita, the end of the affair, heart of the matter, kiss of a spider woman, slaughterhouse 5, god bless you, mr. rosewater...basically anything by faulkner, greene, vonnegut...
luis baragon, louis kahn, zaha hadid, billie hsieh, maya lin, my vet, whoever can fix my vaio...james joyce cuz he wrote ulysses when he had another attack of iritis... if he can do it, goddamnit, i can~