Dinosaurs, Ray Fenwick typography, filmmaking, onions, rain, playing my guitar for no one, snowboarding, fresh sheets, cute boys, cute boys that wear glasses, music, New York City, books, sleeping, ellipses (...), movies, Marriedtothesea, good smells, macaroni and cheese, uncoated Pantone, Mexican food (burritos are the way to my heart), stars (the shape and the ones in the sky), lolcats, quality time with quality people, Cheerios, oldies, board games, snow, good beer, italics, garlic bread, Team Zissou, peanut butter and jelly sangwiches, Fruity Pebbles, the moon, writing, a delicious glass of wine, Settlers of Catan, fonts, striped things, Keane, Beirut, Schwartzmanisms, semi colons, accordions, history, fresh air, dimmed lights, even numbers, astronomy, accents, maps and words.
I'd like to meet:
I'd Like to Meet:
HOLDEN CAULFIELD -
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI -
BILLY IDOL -
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
people who listen rather than wait to talk
mama's boys
someone I can trust
someone to inspire me
someone to go to movies with
someone to play Scrabble with
Steve Zissou
See my HEROES section.
I'll also tell ya who I don't want to meet: cheaters and liars.
I cannot forget this one, even though I am 52 years late...(9/30/55) rest in peace my love...you are my hero.
Music:
KEANE.
I also appreciate the musical talents of: THE BEATLES (in my family, it is kind of a requirement), BEIRUT, ATHLETE, COLDPLAY, JEFF BUCKLEY, SOUTH, BARCELONA, MGMT, RILO KILEY, JOSHUA RADIN, SUFJAN STEVENS, CORINNE BAILEY RAE, SONDRE LERCHE, COBRA VERDE, JIMMY EAT WORLD, CAKE, KAISER CHIEFS, GOGOL BORDELLO, JAMES BLUNT, DEATH CAB, DAVID GRAY, PAPER MACHE, YANN TIERSEN, MOBY, MATT COSTA, DANDY WARHOLS, GUSTER, EDITH PIAF, COLLECTIVE SOUL, THE ELECTED, JASON MRAZ, ROGUE WAVE, THE KILLERS, Something Corporate, The Roots, Feist, Common, The Traveling Wilburys, Beastie Boys, The Shins, Dean Martin, Finley Quaye, Michael Buble, Tom Petty, Pearl Jam, Caedmon's Call, Matchbox Twenty/Rob Thomas, accordion music, The Clash, Chris Isaak, Better Than Ezra, Van Morrison, Imogen Heap/Frou Frou, 3EB, Gorillaz, Sigur Ros, Jem, Ben Folds/BFF, Iron and Wine, Saves the Day, Postal Service, Steadman, Phantom Planet, The Smiths, The Frames, Marley, Ryan Adams, Phil Collins, Modest Mouse, Man Man, Coconut Records, Connie Francis, Elvis, Paul Simon, Josh Groban (yes!), Journey (for life!), Bloc Party, Cat Stevens, Joshua Bartholomew, Charles Trenet, . The list goes on....anything acoustic...I've pretty much got a bit of everything! :)
Movies:
Considering I was a film student....JURASSIC PARK, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, Sunshine, The Life Aquatic, Help! (one of the funniest movies ever), Running With Scissors, There Will Be Blood, A Very Long Engagement, EuroTrip!, 300, Over the Hedge, Death At A Funeral, Requiem For A Dream, Life Is Beautiful, Hot Rod, Peaceful Warrior, 8 1/2, City Lights, The Gold Rush, Harold and Maude, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, The Dreamers, Angel-A, The Invisible, Disturbia, Meet the Robinsons, Knocked Up, Casino Royale, Black Snake Moan, Zodiac, Wedding Crashers, The Royal Tennenbaums, Marie Antoinette, Venus, Little Miss Sunshine, Rescue Dawn, The Last Kiss, Life As A House, The Lookout, Northfork, The Family Stone, Apocalypto, A Clockwork Orange, Art School Confidential, Giant, Walk the Line, LOTR trilogy (cinematic masterpieces!), Good Will Hunting, Under the Tuscan Sun, Orange County, The Matador, Road to Perdition, Gladiator, Napoleon Dynamite, Rushmore, Airborne (yes, the Rollerblade movie), There's Something About Mary, Do The Right Thing, Edward Scissorhands, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Garden State, Amores Perros, Triplets of Belleville, Sideways, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Collateral, I Heart Huckabees, Lost and Found, Amelie, Wet Hot American Summer, Out Cold, The Big Lebowski, Sleepless In Seattle, Moulin Rouge, Catch Me If You Can, Shaun of the Dead, Office Space, About A Boy, Newsies, Annie, When Harry Met Sally, The Last Unicorn, Anchorman, The Incredibles, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Terminal, Clueless, Lemony Snicket, The Horse Whisperer, What Dreams May Come, In Good Company, War Of the Worlds (2005), Artificial Intelligence, Back To the Future Trilogy, Benny and Joon, Chasing Liberty, Dumb and Dumber, Duplex, E.T., Empire Records, Encino Man, 50 First Dates, Fight Club, Love Actually, Lilo and Stitch, Mallrats, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2, The Princess Bride, Rebel Without A Cause, A River Runs Through It, The Sandlot, Some Like It Hot, Super Troopers, Three Kings, Titanic, Tommy Boy, Vegas Vacation, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, Waking Life. Of course there's more!
Television:
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Six Feet Under, Desperate Housewives, Entourage, Prison Break, Boston Legal, The Office, Nip/Tuck, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, The Real World, Dirty Sexy Money, Scrubs, Mega Disasters, Lost Civilizations, The O.C., What About Brian, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Animaniacs, Dexter, The Universe, Rocko's Modern Life, Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Big Shots, Planet Earth, Strangers With Candy, Ren and Stimpy, Sex and the City, Dead Like Me, The Sopranos, Full House re-runs, and SNL. I pretty much just watch TV shows on DVD...
Books:
Johnny Got His Gun, The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, Magical Thinking, Dry, Running With Scissors, Possible Side Effects (anything by A. Burroughs), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, I Am Not Myself These Days, the dictionary, Brave New World, Catcher In the Rye, the Bible, Lord of the Flies, The Divine Comedy, Slaughterhouse Five, Tropic of Cancer, If We Ever Break Up This Is My Book, The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The Wonder Spot, The Universe In A Nutshell, A Brief History of Time, Welcome To My Planet (Where English Is Sometimes Spoken), Children of God Go Bowling, The Illiad, The Odyssey, anything Calvin & Hobbes, The Little Prince, A Separate Peace, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, A Confederacy of Dunces, Why Do Men Have Nipples?, Lemony Snicket Series, About A Boy, Dizzy and Jimmy, This Book Will Change Your Life, Gargantua and Pantagruel and The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
Heroes:
JOHN LENNON.
Conan O'Brien, Zach Condon, Banksy, Damon Albarn, Simon Pegg, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Augusten Burroughs, Wes Anderson, Joe Varela, Steve Martin, Jesus, Lonely Island boys, Jason Schwartzman, Gene Kelly, John Waters, Moby, Werner Herzog, Cary Grant, Roberto Benigni, Zach Braff, Gwen Stefani, JFK, Gore Vidal, Ben Gibbard, Tom Chaplin, Holocaust survivors, Yann Tiersen, cartographers, Terje Haakonsen, Orson Welles, and last but certainly not least–my dad.
