I like peas and bell peppers.
I like fresh air and the moon.
I like to play board games.
I like to listen to music that I listened to in high school and music my parents listened to when THEY were in high school.
I like to work for change and to help other people.
I like The Youth ROCKS (hands down the coolest bunch of teenagers walking the planet today.)
I like to learn.
I like to try to peel an orange in one big piece.
I like to have intense discussions of current events, politics, art, and religion.
I like to figure out what makes people tick.
I like finding one-of-a-kind items at thrift stores.
I like to watch people's faces when they sing.
I like giving (and wrapping) gifts.
I like to travel.
I like to talk about the weirdness of dreams.
I like drinking hot liquids once they've almost cooled to room temperature.
I like to play pretend.
I like camping with my brother.
I like to cry while watching movies.
I like to laugh at inappropriate times and try to hold it in.
I like being an aunt.
I like my in-laws and family reunions with The Whites.
I like spontanaeity and experiences that make you think, "How in the heck did I get here? ...This is bizarre. ...This is perfect."
I don't like being judged by other people.
I don't like to lie.
I don't like to argue with people I love.
I don't like sweatshops or factory farms.
I don't like feeling cornered.
I don't like feeling left out.
I don't like when my neighbors yell & scream & fight & jump off their balcony.
I don't like getting behind on my homework.
I don't like to be repeatedly interrupted.
I don't like the West Memphis Police Department.
I don't like to worry about the future.
I don't like spiders...at all.
I don't like throw-up.
I don't like the smell of old man skin.
I'd like to meet:
...I'd truly like to meet people like Bill Mahr, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Keith Olbermann, and Dave Letterman who calmly oppose stupidity and conservatism with humor. See this example of Sacha Baron Cohen and some douche bag--
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Borat Goes Hunting...I'd also like to meet passionate, open-minded people who aren't afraid to stand up, speak up, and act up for their beliefs.
And on a lighter note...
Who wouldn't want to party with THESE guys??
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Face Dancing(Also? It wouldn't kill you to subscribe to my blog. I'm just sayin.)
Music:
the soundtrack to a rainy day drive
the whisper of cotton fields and coal mines and whiskey stills and alleyways under the light of the moon
the stories of dissention--plucked, scraped, whistled, or screamed
the movement of hips and the kiss upon shoulders when the sound has nowhere to go but inside
the repetition that pulls arms into the air or tears into the eyes
a girl who growls or coos or purrs
a man who's smarter than me
songs and voices that haunt
a beat that makes the toe tap and the hiney wiggle
a melody that can take me back in time
Movies:
Schindler's List (Spielberg), The War (Avnet), Short Cuts (Altman) and pretty much anything from those 3 directors.
brave kids
wit
stories of father-loss
innovative screenwriting and cinematography
80's classics (Dirty Dancing, Ferris Buehler, The Jerk, Steel Magnolias...)
Lili Taylor
Laura Linney
Maura Tierney
Carol Burnett
Susan Sarandon
Mary Poppins
Sean Penn
Johnny Depp
John Cusack
Dustin Hoffman
Ed Norton
Spiderman & Frodo
Guilty pleasures: Very Bad Things, Napolean Dynomite, Rocky Horror, Vince Vaughn, Set It Off...
Television:
Favorite shows of past and present: Six Feet Under, The Wonder Years, My Name is Earl, Mad About You, My So-called Life, Seinfeld, Friends, ER, CAMPUS LADIES!, The Cosby Show, Will & Grace, Arrested Development, Antique Roadshow, The Daily Show, Dave, Ellen, Oprah, The X-Files, A Different World, King of the Hill, The Comeback, Carnivale, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, How I Met Your Mother, Over There, The New Adventures of Old Christine, a little Grey's Anatomy, and a smathering of bogus reality shows...Let's hear it for some Project Runway, yeah?
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Books:
{{I read, don't let this blank section fool you.}}
Heroes:
Carson White (my dad, 1945-1996),
Lyndal White, W.A. Pottorff, and Alta Pottorff (my late grandparents),
my biggest "fan," John Koonter (1980-2005),
my first friend, Kyle York (1980-2003),
Beverly St. John, one tough lady;
Michael Leslie, the youth leader who inspired me to be a youth leader;
Mark Collins, my high school theater teacher who taught me so much more;
my "Love With Legs," Jason Baldwin, who, despite nearly 14 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, has an overwhelming and inspirational sense of peace;
Baby Abey and Anna Wren, who show me how to relax and laugh and play;
My Mom, who taught me by her example to love unconditionally;
Also, authors/poets Marge Piercy, Sylvia Plath, & Maya Angelou; David Bowie; Harold Ford, Jr., Bill & Hillary Clinton, Gandhi, Steven Spielberg, Joseph Cornell, and anyone who figures out their secret power and uses it for good.
