Putting my hair up. Hearing something I don't know. Dancing. Singing. Going for walks. Finding Venus in the sky (with no luck these days). Tricking my body into thinking that nervousness is actually excitement. Being ok with being sad/angry/cranky pants/grumble cakes. Laughing, a lot.
I'd like to meet:
Did you know that having a pleasant conversation with a stranger is scientifically proven to be as chemically satisfying to your brain/body as a intimate evening with your significant other? Soooo...I guess that means, any one pleasant???
Music:
Dayna Kurtz. Nina Simone. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Le Tigre. Billie Holiday. Silvio Rodriguez. Bjork. Headlights. Honky Tonk music. Death Cab. Iron and Wine. Inti Illimani. The Decemberists. Lorene's Samsara Song. Peaches. Mos Def. Dead Prez. The Shins. Gillian Welch. Anything from the forties. Aerosmith. Music my friends make. I like the euphoria music brings. That song that says "let's talk about spaceships or anything except you and me, ok?"
Movies:
Hot Fuzz-from the guys who made Shaun of the Dead (beyond excellent), Pan's Labyrinth, 300, Pride and Prejudice, Stranger than Fiction, Dead Alive, The Cutting Edge, Secretary, The 40 Year Old Virgen, The United States of Leiland, The House of Yes, Waiting for Guffman, Allegro non Troppo, Love Me If You Dare, The City of Lost Children, Amelie, Delicatessan, El Chacotero Sentimental, My Life Without Me, Jackass, The Princess Bride, Brokeback Mountain, Splendor, Pirates of the Caribean, Napoleon Dynamite, The Triplets of Belleville, Say Anything, Punch Drunk Love
Television:
The Office. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And probably once I watch it, Arrested Development.
Books:
(Although my Anatomy and Physiology gets most of my attention these days...) Pride and Prejudice, The History of Almost Everything, Against Love, Quirkyalone, The Course in Miracles, The Biology of Belief, Free to be you and me, The Little Prince, Bag Balm and Duct Tape, Zen Shorts, any of those Captain Underpants books, Gilberto and the Wind, Tom Robbins Books, Roald Dahl Books, David Sedaris books, Rainer Maria Rilke Books, Comic Books-Transmetropolitan, Preacher, Kabuki and the Cages Novel.
Heroes:
People who do things that they are scared of. plus Ani Difranco, Peaches, Anne Sprinkle, Margaret Cho, Angelina Jolie, Anais Nin, Jan Kalmar. Women and Men who live full out.
