Music; Movies; Photography; Animals; Unusual People; People who don't rely on chemical highs; Honesty; Never giving up on a dream; Learning; Snowy days in NYC; Cultural Anthropology; Scottish Accents...it's like hearing a foreign language; Buddhist and Hindu Art; Family and Friends; Interesting conversations that last all night; Ellipses (um, is that how it's spelled? I always use them incorrectly, but they're just plain entertaining); Writing too much; Cruelty Free Products and faux leather (God bless Moo Shoes); Writing really long emails, but not as often as I should (Quality makes up for quantity...or maybe that should be the other way around?); Finding my way in a world that troubles me on so many levels...perhaps I should say trying to make peace with this world without giving up hope that it can and will change; and, much to my own amazement, Reading.
Old friends. I dunno.... Surprise me. Actually most of the old friends shoulda stayed in the past so just surprise me.
I harbor under the delusion that I'm a punk rock chick, but I know I grew up and can't find that girl I once knew. There's so much, yet so little and I just don't want to go there right now.
There are so many, but they're often changing. Some quick thoughts include Igby Goes Down, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Kate Winslet rocks my world); A Decade Under the Influence; Rashomon; Cruel Intentions; Trainspotting; Sunrise; Empire Records; 25th Hour; Requiem for a Dream; Suburbia; State and Main; The Basketball Diaries; Pump Up the Volume; Mad Love; Foxfire; The Seventh Seal; A Life Less Ordinary (I love the cinematography...and Ewan McGregor); Fire; Pieces of April; Wild Strawberries; Playing By Heart; The House of Yes; Raging Bull; Go; Desert Blue; Band of Outsiders; Advertising Rules!; 200 Cigarettes; Ikiru; Reality Bites; Chasing Amy; American Beauty; SLC Punk!; Fight Club; A Woman Under the Influence; Sid & Nancy; Sullivan's Travels; Good Bye, Lenin!.... I could keep going. It's all a matter of what aspect of a film I feel like contemplating and my mood.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Shut up. It had amazing moments. Dawson's Creek. Again, shut up. I like watching high school kids talk with the sophistication of aliens. It's the way I wish conversations could be. My So-Called Life. But watching it now the dialogue seems to have too many "likes" and unneccesary pauses in it. Certain educational shows, depending on the topic of the hour. For the most part, TV has become a huge wasteland of reality crap with people that I'm scared to think actually live in the same world as myself.
Dante's Paradiso; The Consolation of Philosophy; The Ramayana; Candide; The Bhagavad-Gita; Fuck You Heroes; Fuck You Too; Screaming Life; The Oresteian Trilogy; White Noise; Scorsese on Scorsese, Thoreau's Walden, Prozac Nation (depressing, but well written); Girl Interrupted (Makes ya think about what being crazy really means)
I am my own hero. My dad's a good one too...most of the time.