I am in a period of my life where I am quite satisfied with myself. I have no regrets. I am able to learn from my mistakes, and thus have no grudges, no self-reproach. I have everything I need, and nothing I don't, which is odd considering I am a packrat in the material sense. I keep my emotional self quite clean and organized, however. Therefore, I am in on a level of personal nirvana, or at least feasting upon a slice of heaven.
being stuck inbetween notes of a beautiful chord, eating in bed, eating in the shower (mainly fruits, they don't get soggy), eating in the car, eating with friends, eating alone, eating while walking, eating in class, eating in restaurants...okay...basically, I absolutely love eating. I also love practically living in Europe for two months on vacation, Poland, Hungary...okay, ALL of Eastern Europe, Berlin, Oslo, Menaggio, Bruges, Belgium in general, TRAVELING TRAVELING TRAVELING, listening to old black men talk, the choir/drama hallway!! (my second home), leaving dirty dishes out and watching them grow things, being perverted, pianos, organs, music, hands (but mainly the index finger), running, walking, motion in general, dancing, singing,, acting, musicals, surrealism, impressionism, dadaism, reading and writing, talking, thinking, juice, fruit, pictures, body art, striking up conversations with crazies, being a crazy, somehow being a magnet for deranged homeless men (it's so true), body art, vintage anything (except penises), gay rights, human rights, animal rights, intergalatic rights, DREAMS, being a "spatial" person, long hair, latin, trees, plants, flowers, bushes, weeds, vegetables, tangents, intellectual conversation, meaningless conversation, being eccentric, being Melia, eccentric people, Beck, Tom Waits (can anyone pull off creepy dirty jazz man and cool talented musical man any better than him?) Crimson Choir, Select Ensemble, painting, neon lights, lame jokes, macabre art, art in any form, Magritte (c'est ne pas un pipe!), Dali, Duchamp, Ernst, Mondrian, Botticelli, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Bosch, Basquiat, Neckface, Tanguy, Van Gogh, Serat, Hundertwasser, okay I really pretty much like most artists and their art providing there is meaning behind it that I find valid (how bratty of me, eh?), Frank Gehry, Hippo Hardware, NW 23rd, ragtime, listening to KBOO!, being half fluent in spanish is happy :), linguistics, the hungarian language (magyar), romance languages, latin, telenovelas (Rubi)
mmm...Beck, Tom Waits, Butthole Surfers, R.L. Burnside, Beth Orton, Martha Wainwright
I hate adding to this list, because something new comes up every day
This past year, I became enthralled with Latin music. Any type. Seriously. It's so versatile, it fits any mood, and yet somehow gives you energy when you listen to it. In my mind, in my future life, I will be living in my self-decorated loft in Portland, rocking out to any sort of latin music while doing whatever the hell it is I'll do when I'm at home.
I have seen probably 5% of the movies the average person has seen. It's pathetic. However, when I like a movie, I have probably seen it more times than the average person. My favorite movie of all time, right now, is Thelma and Louise. The rest of my favorite movies are Harold and Maude, Dogma, Amelie, The Meaning of Life (Monty Python), The Birdcage, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Cabaret and OH GOD, this best foreign film I've ever ever EVER EVER seen, Kontroll...there are more...
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
-Groucho Marx
I just love books. I have too many favorites, but the ones that leap out at me are Lolita, Catch-22, Invisible Man, The Shipping News, 1984, The Brothers Karamazov, The Bridge Over San Luis Ray, Germinal, Mutiny On The Bounty, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Slaughterhouse-Five. This is merely a cross-section of books I have read, specifically books I have read more than once. I am always reading at least 2 books at one time. I adore poetry as well. My favorite poet is probably T.S. Eliot.
Erik Satie, at the moment