Family, friends, food, plus anything that emanates some form of passion. Love, life, logic and laughter - the essentials. Subtle looks, unmarked books and my Saturday afternoons.
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
The little things.
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Those that make my heart smile, Iced Crackuccinos, chalmonds, bakeries, poutine, Oreos, moonlit swimming, almond torrone, long conversations, lasting memories, inside jokes, irony, morning revelations, pomegranates, cool breezes, dark cherries, banter, satire, gossip, existentialism, cereal, Muskoka, autumn, meat, evolution, toaster ovens, jamoca almond fudge ice cream, risk-takers, grand pianos, pasta, hoodies, doodles, Saturdays, eBay, pitter-patter of rain, penguins, dogs, take-out, visionaries, sarcasm, mangoes, CD shopping, green eyes, tangerines, barbeque, spicy salami and mustard sandwiches, bok choy, Mom's cooking, the smell of bread, imagination, harcore what-the-eff-did-you-say-accents and hardwood floors with their slide-with-socks facilitatingness. Words like aardvark, discombobulated and your mom.
One of my favourites by Glinn.
Photo favourites: Sam Javanrouh, Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Edward Burtynsky, Annie Leibovitz, Steve McCurry, Aaron Ruell, Arthur Tress, Gui Paganini, Eikoh Hosoe, Manuel Vilarino, Richard Reinsdorf, Giuliano Bekor, Sandy Skoglund, Ouka Lele, Richard Avedon, Eugene Richards, Karl Blossfeldt, Marc Riboud, Francis Willey, Harry Gruyaert, Lewis Baltz, Doris Ulmann, Eugenio Recuenco, Ueda Shoji, Cornell Capa, Dimitri Daniloff, Larry Towell, Elliott Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Herbert List, Helen Levitt, Gray Scott, Regina Garcia, Chris Woods, Ralph Meatyard, Burt Glinn aaaaand Louise Dahl-Wolfe.
I'd like to meet:
No robots, but I'd appreciate loved ones with whom I've lost contact. Creative, quirky, honest and intelligent types with at least 12th grade grammar skills. Those that smell nice. Jokers, smokers, late night tokers. Someone with eleven toes. My doppleganger, in any. Sam Javanrouh and my other photo influences. Audrey Tautou, so I can pinch her cheeks and claim her as my muse. Steve Carell and Sarah Silverman. If he were still alive, Mitch Hedberg too. The owner of a local ice cream or chocolate factory would most defiantly please my senses. My favourite actors and musicians. People who make me laugh, live for ice cream and hate karaoke. Daniel Tammet to ask him what 110585 looks like.
Please and thanks.
Music:
Like sugar at my fingertips.
THE STROKES!, Metric, New Young Pony Club, Broken Social Scene, CSS, Arctic Monkeys, The Arcade Fire, Air, Bloc Party, Sigur Ros, The Verve, Bob Dylan, Incubus, Feist, The Go! Team, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, Test Icicles, Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz, Lovedrug, Radiohead, Os Mutantes, Death From Above 1979, Peter Bjorn and John, TV on the Radio, Interpol, De La Soul, New Order, Jeff Buckley, Patrick Watson, Sam Roberts, Oasis, Pixies, DeVotchka, The Avalanches, Brian Eno, The Flaming Lips, RJD2... My parents influenced my love for 60s music. Finally got their Blondie and Beatles records too, YAYers.
Explosions in the Sky changes lives.
Favourite music video. Like, ever.
Movies:
They host an ongoing splishy-splashy in my left ventricle.
Le Fabuleux destin d'AMELIE(♥!) Poulain, Edward Scissorhands, Leon, Cinema Paradiso, The Big Lebowski, La Cite de Dieu, Memento, Dogfight, Office Space, The Science of Sleep, Ghost World, Buffalo '66, Slap Shot, The Silence of the Lambs, The Beach, Persona, The Life Aquatic, American History X, Dr. Strangelove, A Bout de Souffle (1960), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Road to Perdition, Amores Perros, Igby Goes Down, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Lost in Translation, Blue (Trois Couleurs trilogy), Whale Rider, Une Femme est une Femme, Shawshank Redemption, Lucia y el Sexo, Mystic River, A Few Good Men, Stand By Me, Some Like It Hot, City Lights, Pulp Fiction, Anywhere But Here, True (Paris, Je T’aime)...
Favourites: Audrey Tautou, Vincent D'Onofrio, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Giovanni Ribisi, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Spacey, Michelle Pfeiffer
Television:
...sets are truly useful when hooked up to my dvd player. BUT! I'm pretty loyal to CSI (Las Vegas), The Office, Conan Keeping-Babies-Cool-Since-1993 O'Brien and the Wills of Sasso-Ferrell reruns. Loved Fresh Prince, Beetlejuice, Seinfeld, plus the Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show. Oscars! I'm liking Bones. These days, I'd rather create, read or head outside instead.
Special thanks to Saved By the Bell for laying out the foundation of my increasingly shallow existence. ;p
Books:
Those that I'm told to read, come recommended, and happen to catch my eye. I usually grab mystery and satirical reads, or anything published by Phaidon. I ♥ Sedaris, Vonnegut, Swift (A Modest Proposal!), Coben, Bukowski, Palahniuk and Stephen Fry. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" are popular for a reason. "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron is the prettiest poem.
Heroes:
Shoo, fly, don't bother me.
