reading, writing, books, film, culture, music, late nights, coffee, libraries, travelling, cooking, spelling 'colour' the Canadian way, aimless wandering, correctly-used apostrophes, booksmarts and streetsmarts, people-watching, useless information, bands, singing, making out, gin and tonics, being provocative, anything and everything French, Paris, rainbows, Mia Kirshner, sexual fluidity, sarcasm, summer nights, cute girls, London, crazy Canadian movies with lots of sex and no plot, shirts that button up the front, cheerleaders, newspapers, skiing, nights out, the Swiss alps, sex in a parked car, forests, springtime, sunsets, Istanbul, cowgirls, concerts, feigned ignorance, voyerism, rollerblading in the summer, orchids, cats, photography, indie music, the New Yorker, art, sleeping in, lounging, the ocean, musicians, cuddling, laundry fresh out of the dryer, homemade bread, mint chocolate chip ice cream, mellow people, laughter, friends, fun, carrying around 10 pounds of newspapers just because, backpacking, rural England, the beach, Amsterdam, smart lyrics, irreverence, my Zen player, the internet, Dutch girls, writing actual letters, baths, Edinburgh, being lazy, samurai movies, sashimi, napping, bluegrass bands, short skirts, girls on rollerskates, dyed hair, cute dogs, mispronouncing words, Pride Week, iced coffee, comics, Curve Magazine, my $5 cowboy hat, the Folk Fest, fireworks, boats, swimming in the ocean, avoiding drama like the plague, remembering my bizarro dreams, drinking blackberry cider on the beach, picking fruit, frolicking barefoot, sandal tan competitions, equality in relationships, cute and inquisitive children, my actual porch swing, hammocks, the gym, Jackson Pollock paintings, staying up late and sleeping in till noon
I'd like to meet:
cool people, beautiful girls, generally well-adjusted individuals, smart cookies, quirky funny people, intellectuals, anyone who can tie a knot in a marashino cherry stem using only their teeth.
Music:
Beck, Aimee Mann, Tegan & Sara, Led Zeppelin, Coldplay, The White Stripes, Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder, Leonard Cohen, The Rolling Stones, Fiona Apple, Ben Harper, Van Morrison, Lauryn Hill, Morcheeba, Jeff Buckley, Starsailor, Beethoven, Chopin, Sigur Ros, Jack Johnson, Natalie Imbruglia, Weezer, Kinnie Starr, Metric, Radiohead, Buck 65, Feist, Nirvana, The Pixies, The Mars Volta, Neil Young, The Doors, No Doubt, Sublime, Amy Winehouse, Kate Schutt, The Smashing Pumpkins, Le Tigre, Alison Krauss, Badly Drawn Boy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beatles, Bif Naked, Portishead, Zero 7, Henry Binns, Massive Attack, Break Reform, CCR, David Kitt, Evanescence, Guns & Roses, AC/DC, Incubus, Moby, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, John Mayer, Leonard Cohen, Spearhead, Ani DiFranco, Nelly Furtado, Paul Simon, Oasis, Projet Orange, Rage Against the Machine, Stevie Wonder, The Divine Comedy, The Killers, The Hives, The Strokes, The Vines, U2, Veruca Salt, Broken Social Scene, Goldfrapp, The Lovely Feathers, Sarah McLachlan, Stars, PJ Harvey, Johnny Cash, Peaches, Doria Roberts, M.I.A., Smoosh, Kaia, Lesbians on Esctacy, K'nann, Chicks on Speed, Brazilian Girls, Ladytron, Regina Spektor, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kaia, Jill Scott, Scissor Sisters, KT Tunstall, Bob Dylan, David Gray, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The No No Spots, The Arctic Monkeys, Dubble Standart, The Slits, Spoon, Lily Allen, Louis XIV, The Blow, The Sounds, Interpol, Mirah, The Knife, Royksopp, The Arcade Fire, Ndidi Onukwulu, Feist...
Movies:
Donnie Darko, Interview with the Vampire, Jerry Maguire, Garden State, Elizabethtown, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Empire Records, The Fifth Element, The Godfather, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Fire, Earth, Spun, Show Me Love, Lost in Translation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The United States of Leland, My Summer of Love, Laurel Canyon, L'auberge Espanol, Dirty Pretty Things, anything with Audrey Tautou looking adorable and acting sassy, obscure French films without subtitles
Television:
The L-Word, CSI, Without a Trace, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model (ouch, I know)
Books:
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Wild Swans (Jung Chang), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon), The Star of Kazan (Eva Ibbotson), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), Middlemarch (George Eliot), Paradise Lost (Milton), Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky), Uglies, Pretties (Scott Westerfeld), Rubyfruit Jungle (Rita Mae Brown), The Life of Pi (Yann Martel), She's Come Undone & I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb)
Heroes:
my mother, Emily Haines, Michael Franti, Alfred Kinsey, Paddington Bear, Joan Jett, Anthony Bourdain, Katherine Moennig, Allison Russell, my grandmothers, and most people who stay strong despite it all.
