Running,Swimming,Tennis, Reading, Darrin's Dance Grooves, I take ballet and it's serious, I signed up for sewing classes FINALLY, I write dumb stories because I have trouble sleeping, I do stupid things when I drink and I'm really nice I promise. (I also eat a lot of food.)
I'd like to meet:
David Sedaris, Ira Glass (Seriously, give me a shawl and a bag of Werthers, my favorite show is on the radio.), I would like a shirt that says "We're on pace" and points to Dean Karnazes who would be running in real-life next to me, Luis de Silva because this is the greatest thing I have ever seen:
Music:
I love The Cure... Muse, Pixies, Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division, Interpol, U2, Bruce Springsteen, The Smiths, Modest Mouse, Bloc Party, The Killers... I can't possibly list everything.
Ever since I started taking hip hop classes I've been slowly making purchases in this genre... I bought the soundtrack to Save The Last Dance. I'm the whitest white girl ever. My friend Josiah always says, "Allison, you need some soul." And I say, "Joe, I have no soul."
Movies:
Better Off Dead, Spinal Tap, Reservoir Dogs, Shawshank Redemption, Napoleon Dynamite, Crash, The Lives of Others, Once
Television:
Best Week Ever, Project Runway, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Flight of The Conchords
Books:
The Count of Monte Cristo (is the most amazing book ever written. I would, however, describe the movie as detestable... at best.), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, The Sun Also Rises, Timeline, Flannery O'Connor short stories, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World and Love in the Time of Cholera are two of my absolute favorites.
And, of course, this essay written by a hopeful Cumberland County high school senior:
Heroes:
coffee, Iris Apfel, My loving and relentlessly reasonable husband without whom I would not be living the American equivalent of joie de vivre, and my son who, despite my twenty year advantage in age, is infinitely wiser than me.
