the rafael p. story

I'd like to meet:

knut. have you seen him? he's freakin adorable.

anyone that does not inject, inhale, or otherwise consume any letters of the alphabet.

eneas & benitín.

bill moyers for coffee. gwen ifill for tea. people that say "bless you" when others sneeze. boys that close doors with the handles turned. someone to e-mail it in with.

walt whitman's niece. also, anybody who knows that reference.

the natalie to my jeremy. or the converse, if it applies.

also, one of the fug girls. and hot guys that say "silly," because it's pretty amusing.

have we stolen glances?
do you know a good hack?
will you call me out?
did you get kissed, get wild, and get a life?
do you say “an historic”? (it is *incredibly* sexy)
if you are destiny’s child, who is destiny’s daddy?
do you read Gawker?
can you keep up?
do you understand contranyms?
have you ever hammered a screw?
can you teach me something new?
can we grease the wheel over tea? discuss things in confidence? be outspoken? be ridiculous? solve the world's problems?
are you anderson cooper a.j. hammer?

Music:

lately: um, that stevie wonder song lily allen fratellis belle & sebs the pipettes ingrid yo la tengo

boy least likely to, and other music that is deceptively peppy.

always: artists that make albums i want to listen to all the way through albums that tell a story songs where cities are metaphors for lovers songs with choirs singing in them songs with accordions, cellos, and/or steel pedal songs with lyrics like "have mercy on the man who sings to be adored" and "your license plate said delaware; i said it must be gorgeous there" songs that could serve a dual purpose when hooked up to certain ipod accessories songs with clapping. ironically, also clap your hands and say yeah.

Movies:

lately: "you are a strawberry blond. you can't go out with an ash blonde. it's not right! "

always:"...now you can choose, do you want an apple or do you want an orange? that's democracy.
- i also like bananas.
- exactly!"

"don't call it the ball thing. call it pure being."

junebug i am trying to break your heart run lola run amelie house of yes beetlejuice donnie darko tadpole mean girls shawshank redemption adaptation zoolander lost in translation eternal sunshine i heart huckabees election anything by wes anderson girls with low self esteem woody allen movies, if only for the credits, but usually for more les cousins dangereux six degrees of separation v for vendetta little miss sunshine

Television:

lately: i get suckered into watching marathons, or make my own marathons from DVDs.
-i'm not interested in you that way
-what way?
-pick one

-we have to do something!
-i know! why don't we go wreck my car and see if the side-impact airbags really work!

-i think george michael is hiding anne in the attic
-from who, the nazis?

"can you please just trust me? i won't make fools out of you" (and then i begin bawling)

"that's like comparing apples and...some fruit nobody's ever heard of."

"-smart, yes, sometimes cute, but never sexy. sexy is the thing i try to get them to see me as after i win them over with my personality.
-you win men over with your personality?"

"here comes john wayne. “i’m not going to cry about my pa. i’m going to build an airport— put my name on it.” why? so you can fly away from your feelings?

"we'll be back later. in the meantime, if any talking animals ask you to buy tacos or beer, for the love of god, do what they tell you!"

"but that's the part that's so unfair- I have nothing else on my mind! how come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in, like, microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with 'other things on his mind.'
-that is deep."

always: "by the way, y-o-u apostrophe r-e means 'you are.' y-o-u-r means YOUR."

"what specifically were you looking for about sex?
-uh, spe...uh, specifically? umm...having it."

"i don't criticize you! and if you're worried about criticism, sometimes a diet is the best defense."

sex and the city significant others felicity friends best week ever daily show sports night washington week the mclaughlin group and, by far, arrested development.

Books:

currently reading: non-fiction (philosophy, history, industry). cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things. also, [redacted].
"he tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. but he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. maybe— why, maybe it's a kind of reverse."

“if you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right— I'll admit that. but if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? nothing. no game.”

"he believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. it eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... and one fine morning— so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

“with no instruction manual or federally enforced training period, didn't we all come away feeling we'd discovered something unspeakably modern?”

“love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not towards one 'object' of love.”

“tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoise.”

lately: youth in revolt kavalier and clay the year of magical thinking the alchemist cien anos de soledad

Heroes:

lately: i'm a huge fan of people that know when to say "[blank] and i" vs. "me and [blank]" people that are really good at simplifying concepts like net neutrality

leonor perez pitatim tim gunn (pow pow) dayton/faris the bluths al gore jon stewart mike davidson people that know the difference between a post and a blog excelers