Laughing, reading, writing, history, story-telling, people-watching, sitting outside, theories, music, art, travel, hiking, movies, food, wine, cheese, coffee, walking around portland, crosswords, learning new words and languages, cool atmosphere, shyness meeting unexpected revelation, bad puns, unending conversations, hilarity, quirkiness, and unturned stones.
I'd like to meet:
Tina Fey would be cool to meet. So would Michael Cera and Daniel Day Lewis.
Music:
No order: KCRW Radio, Belle and Sebastian, Isobel Campbell, Okkervil River, Holden, Blonde Redhead, Jim Noir, Mono in VCF, Beulah, Caribou, Pepi Ginsberg, The Unicorns, Islands, Biirdie, Voxtrot, Stars of Track and Field, I Love Math, Old 97's, Sparklehorse, Pepi Ginsberg, Beach House, The Orange Lights, Ween, Shearwater, Andrew Bird, Ray LaMontagne, The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Seabear, Regina Spektor, Ben Folds, Joseph Arthur, Rosemary Clooney, Earlimart, Let's Go Sailing, Luna, Clem Snide, Keren Ann, Stars, Cat Power, Aqualung, Antony and the Johnsons, Etta James, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, Elliot Smith, Doves, Travis, The Gentle Waves, Muse, Keane, Devics, Sea Wolf, The Shins, Blitzen Trapper, Arcade Fire, Wilco, Tom Petty, Spoon, Crowded House/The Finn Brothers, Bears, The Stranglers, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, Perry Como, Manu Chao, James, Radiohead, The Cars, Dire Straits, Johnny Mathis, Leonard Cohen, Supergrass, Beck, Cake, Nick Drake, David Bowie, Coldplay, The Rogue Wave, Johnny Cash, Pixies, Rufus Wainwright, Camera Obscura, PJ Harvey, Cursive, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Chopin, 80's New Wave…
Movies:
My Life as a Dog, The Red Balloon, Annie Hall, Love and Death, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Graduate, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Secretary, Jean de Florette, Manon de Printemps, Pans Labrynth, The Red Violin, Children of Men, The Savages, The Pianist, Old School, This Is Spinal Tap, Finding Neverland, Amadeus, Office Space, Waiting for Guffman, They Way We Were, Tommy Boy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Better Off Dead.
Television:
The Office UK and US, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, Extras, Ugly Betty, 30 Rock, Sex and the City, Law and Order, Without a Trace, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, documentaries on OPB/History Channel, Farmer Wants a Wife.
Books:
I like: Milan Kundera, Ernest Hemingway, David Sedaris, Jonathan Ames, Russell Banks, John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Philip Roth, James Thurber, Jane Austin. Some Faves: My Life and Hard Times, Letters to a Young Poet, The Joke, Of Human Bondage, Master and Margarita, Grapes of Wrath, Great Expectations, Heart of Darkness, Brothers Karmazov, Me Talk Pretty One Day, My Less Than Secret Life, Confessions of Max Tivoli, Le Petit Prince, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Little Princess, Gertie the Duck. Poetry? Because I really connect with Rilke. Also like Frost, Millay, Dickinson, W.H. Auden, Coleridge, Eliot, Housman, Pope, Tennyson, Yeats. Sometimes Burns and Keats. Blogs: Jezebel, Portlandfoodanddrink.
Heroes:
Family and friends.
