things that are aesthetically pleasing or euphonious, yummy food that other people cook for me, my sweet little baby boy, NOT bra shopping, dancing and singing, and finishing my great american novel. oh yeah, coffee with lots of cream (not cremora), pink shoes, world travels, reading good books (among which I do not include The DaVinci Code), what's inside other people's houses (edit: I like the way Cassie said this better -- it sounds more romantic, less stalker, "Looking in people's windows at dusk"), the perfect $8 bottle of wine (Gnarly Head old vine zin is in the lead) . . .
I'd like to meet:
The people I've accidentally lost. People who play the sousaphone. I'm always looking for a good juggler. People who use four way stops and apostrophes correctly.
Music:
Dwight Yoakam, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Pixies, The Cure, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Otis Redding, Mike Ness and/or Social Distortion (the "loud Ring of Fiyah"), Slint, Roy Orbison, Mark Knopfler, Miles Davis, Patsy Cline, Weezer, Reverend Horton Heat, Motorhead, Guns and Freakin Roses, Grateful Dead, Jay Farrar, Lucero, Heather Luttrell, Miles Davis, opera that gives me goose bumps, Victor Balboni . . .
Movies:
Life Is Beautiful, Ponette, Amelie, Down With Love, Love and a .45, Shag, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Napoleon Dynamite, The Neverending Story, The Bad Seed, Auntie Mame (The one wtih Rosalind Russell. NOT the musical), Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Kung Fu movies, horror movies as long as my husband is sleeping next to me that night, All About Eve, The Journey of Natty Gann . . .
Television:
My new favorites are Big Love and Deadwood, What Not to Wear, and oh, how I miss Buffy. But right now I don't have any television, or rather, we don't get any kind of reception and can't afford cable, so we watch lots of weird stuff that we get from the library (where it's free to get movies). The Chestatee Regional Library has recently provided me with my newest favorite show, Arrested Development. Yes, I know it's not even on the air anymore, and I'm like, 5 years late on this obsession, but whatever. Or weird stuff from my dad, like Danger Mouse, which I love.
Books:
Madame Bovary, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, Nick Hornby novels, Wicked, The Winter of Our Discontent, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Poisonwood Bible, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, all the Harry Potter books, Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Chronicles of Narnia, all three of the A Wrinkle in Time books, His Dark Materials Trilogy (edit: I've re-read them, and I think I must not have ever read the last book because I really don't like it very much, but the first two are definitely wonderful), A Confederacy of Dunces, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Amy Tan books are all pretty good, The Good Earth was a good one (I have a mild Chinese obsession). Books about real stuff are interesting, too . . . Germs, Guns and Steel, Thomas Cahill books, The Bible. . . . Oh, and have I mentioned how much I hated the DaVinci Code?
Heroes:
Jesus, my mother, Mike Moore.
