Currently on Heavy Rotation:
* Knowing something you don't * Pretty shoes * Losing track of the time * Unexpected mail &/or packages * Kissing in the corner * Meandering conversation * Wicked grins * Diners at 4 a.m. * Erotic art & poetry * Eloquence * Creating "Top Five" lists * Crossword puzzles & nerdy word or trivia games * Spending hours making CDs for people I care about * Cooking someone's favorite meal * Skinny-dipping * Holding hands * Chocolate on anything * Sarcasm that isn't bitter * Boys with guitars & lovely voices * Seattle * Thunderstorms * Instant connections with strangers * Staying up all night being crafty with my glue gun * Staying up all night drinking wine and makin' some love * Sensuality * French cafe music * Cake for breakfast * Quoting terribly obscure lines from movies * Correcting people who say they "could" care less {it's "COULDN'T!"} * Wine-tasting excursions * Anticipation... * Finishing a book, then reading the first and last pages again * Palindromes * Being the hostess * Hitting snooze * Men who look fantastic in eyeliner * Saying "Yes" to a mysterious-yet-intriguing proposition * Chance encounters that create unexpected magic * Making someone blush * Turning someone on * Double entendres * Inescapable eye-contact * Candlelight * Moonlight * Taking the overnight train to anywhere * Roadtrips with laid-back travel companions * Black lingerie * Freudian slips * Scars
Kissing bandits...
Gettin' dirrrty at Jessi's wedding.
My parents as children. Axl {circa 1987}. People who don't take me for granted. Fantastic musicians/lovers-of-musicians. Elvis Costello. Old friends. Dramatic story-tellers. Cunning linguists. Beethoven. Clive Owen. Greg Dulli. People who aren't married to their cell phones. Those who check their judgments & pretentions at the door. Spontaneous travelers. Readers, writers and grammar geeks. Night owls. Kissers, lovers & passion-seekers. Dreamers. Ignatius J Reilly. Charles Bukowski. Mary Queen of Scots {apparently we're related}. Titof. Booksmart devils. Fallen angels. Killer queens. Fujiyama mamas. A better version of me.
Heartbreakers, lovemakers, instigators, troublemakers...
" I love the relationship that anyone has with music...
because there’s something in us that is beyond the reach of words,
something that eludes & defies our best attempts to spit it out.
It's the best part of us, probably... the richest & strangest part. "
{nick.hornby}
The Recent Essentials:
The National / Editors / lots of Low / Snowden / Andrew Bird / Pela / Cut Copy / Kings of Leon / The Black Keys & BRMC are always on / Songs: Ohia / Scout Niblett / The Arcade Fire / Stars of Track & Field / The Walkmen / Britt Daniel / Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Elvis Costello's earlier albums / Sunset Rubdown / Interpol / Menomena / The Honorary Title / Dandy Warhols / The Most Serene Republic / Cat Power / TV on the Radio / The Notwist / Nina Simone forever & for every occasion... / Broken Social Scene / Sea Wolf / Stars
ELVIS COSTELLO / Clapton / The Stones / Badfinger / Supertramp / Big Star / Kinks / Tom Waits / Nina Simone / Crowded House / Queen / Dylan / Beatles / Hendrix / The Jam / Sam Cooke / Al Green / Ocean Colour Scene / Pixies / Elliott Smith / Jeff Buckley / Neil Diamond / The Cure / Depeche Mode / Guns N' Roses / The Catherine Wheel / Jellyfish / Jason Falkner / Travis / Fiona Apple / Joni / Janis / The Black Keys / BRMC / Pulp / Spoon / Elbow / Leonard Cohen / Afghan Whigs / Twilight Singers / Hot Hot Heat / Pearl Jam / Radiohead / Morphine / Jeff Klein / Razorlight / Stevie Wonder / Violent Femmes / Raspberries / 10cc / .38 Special / Blue Oyster Cult / Erasure / Morrissey / The Faint / Interpol / Arcade Fire / Angels & Airwaves / Black Heart Procession / Blackmaker / Joseph Arthur / Mark Lanegan / Dandy Warhols / Iggy / The The / Libertines / The Vines / Ryan Adams / Nick Cave / Flaming Lips / Beck / Ray LaMontagne / early Dead / Belle & Sebastian / The Good Life / Ben Folds {Five} / Ben Taylor {Band} / Doves / Nada Surf / Ed Harcourt / Eels / Kalai / Jeffrey Gaines / Rufus Wainwright / Fruit Bats / Bright Eyes / Wilco / Trashcan Sinatras / Teitur / My Morning Jacket / Portishead / Sigur Ros / Kelly Bell Band / Shivaree / Ours / Guster / Grand National / Magnet / Matt Pond PA / Brian Jonestown Massacre / Bedhead / Brigitte Bardot / Marilyn Monroe / Elvis Presley / The Honorary Title / White Stripes / Afterhours / Cardigans / TV on the Radio / Stereophonics / Stars / OK Go / Goldfrapp / Camera Obscura / M.Ward / Death Cab / Silversun Pickups / Low / Tilly & the Wall / The Killers / Cat Power / New Pornographers / A.C. Newman
..Listen up, kids....
So near, yet so far away....
Y Tu Mama Tambien . Sex & Lucia . 21 Grams . Closer . Crash . Thirteen . Elizabethtown . Bad Santa . Dirty Rotten Scoundrels . Honeymoon in Vegas . Kissing Jessica Stein . Laurel Canyon . Empire Records . A Fish Called Wanda . Before Sunrise . The Cutting Edge {Yeah... so? "Toe-pick!"} . Reality Bites . Office Space . Grease 2 . Best In Show . The Paper Chase . Broadcast News . Threesome . French Kiss . Roman Holiday . Life Is Beautiful . Amelie . Say Anything . Better Off Dead . High Fidelity . Frankie & Johnny . La Femme Nikita . Stranger Than Fiction . The Cooler . Overboard . Very Bad Things . Royal Tenenbaums . Chasing Amy . Pulp Fiction . Amarcord . Shattered Glass . West Side Story . Sideways . Rocky Horror . Quick Change . Crybaby . Moonstruck . Butch Cassidy . Fight Club . Mulholland Drive . Brazil . Big Lebowski..
Not really...
Law school really threw my reading habits under the bus, and I'm just now getting started on the 50 or so books I simply didn't have the will to read after Epstein, Conviser & the like sucked it out of me.
..
Ham On Rye :: Wicked :: Sick Puppy :: Confederacy of Dunces :: On the Road :: Valley of the Dolls :: The Sun Also Rises :: High Fidelity :: Septuagenarian Stew :: Me Talk Pretty One Day {and all Sedaris stuff} :: Eats Shoots & Leaves :: The Iliad :: For Whom the Bell Tolls :: Night Train :: One Hundred Years of Solitude :: The Great Gatsby :: The Shining :: Are You There, Darling? :: Le Petit Prince :: White Noise :: The Hottest State {OK, OK, this is only b/c Ethan Hawke autographed it...} :: any Bill Bryson book :: those little "bathroom readers" that are full of trivial pursuits
Currently on my nightstand:
Middlesex :: Prague :: Delano :: The Trick of It :: Fried Calamari :: Notes of a Dirty Old Man :: a crossword puzzle book & pencil, a turquoise lamp with a feather-trimmed lampshade, Dr Pepper-flavored chapstick and an empty wine glass {stained red from the remaining sip of a delicious pinot noir that was shared with lovely company, way back in December...}
My pops is pretty heroic for rockin' these turquoise bell~bottoms...
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