"It's already been sung but it can't be said enough, all you need is love..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~i'm open to anyone and everyone. i still have the "breathing and vocabulary of five words" criteria...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
the Beatles, Jon Spencer, Sleater-Kinney, the Decemberists, the White Stripes, the Clash, PJ Harvey, the Damned, Patti Smith, the Strokes, Neil Young, My Morning Jacket, the Flaming Lips, T. Rex, the Stones, Jane's Addiction, the Velvet Underground, U2, Elliot Smith, the National, Beck, the Stooges, Rogue Wave, the Who, Jeff Buckley, Arcade Fire, the Walkmen, Wolf Parade, Spoon, Fugazi, the Shins, Cat Power, New Pornographers, and whatever else amuses me this week. I'm fascinated by Antony and the Johnsons, and I still love Pearl Jam
Pandora's Box, the Wizard of Oz (with or without Pink Floyd), Fantasia, Bonnie and Clyde, Ghost World, A Clockwork Orange, Faster Pussycat Kill!Kill!, Sunset Boulevard, Fight Club, Moulin Rouge, Help!, the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Freaks, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sunrise, Carrie, Fargo, Rosemary's Baby, Heathers, Swingers, Diary of a Lost Girl, Metropolis, It, the Exorcist, Nosferatu, Rear Window, Mosquito Coast, the Golem, Bottle Rocket, Night of the Living Dead, Roman Holiday, old Disney movies, old Universal horror movies, Harold and Maude...
If I had cable, my answer would be different. And I'd probably never leave the house. And be paler than I am now... But God bless Arrested Development!
The Bell Jar, Like Water for Chocolate, Orlando, On the Road, the Stranger, Love in the Time of Cholera, Geek Love, the Moviegoer, Letters to a Young Poet, Siddhartha, Franny and Zooey, the Beatles Anthology, any Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris, lots of non-fiction that's feminist and politically slanted...
The women in my life. Mom, Barbara, Shelley, Suzie, Becky, Mina... all have been through some seriously hard times yet never gave up, kept up brave faces for the kids (and i'm sorry it took us some growing up to appreciate how complicated that is!), kept takng hits, and always made it. My sisters are all younger than me but i swear they're infinitely wiser. While I meet my crises curled in a fetal position listening to "Here Comes the Sun", they're the true fighters... And for all those known and unknown who've stood up for what they believe in, I bow to you!