life, music, books, friends, gardening and dancing about figure heavily into the equation. I don't function well without a song in my head and a spring in my step.
people who aren't weirded out by frequent non-sequiturs and random acts of kindness.
the beach boys, modest mouse, arto lindsay, please wait while i rattle off a list of bands you may know and/or like thus creating a required music paradigm for friendship with me.
[b] movies, horror, dark comedy, documentaries, mockumentaries, zombie flicks, musicals ¤ rent 'The Triplets of Belleville'. it's good stuff ¤
Falling Chick Provided By This Place
currently: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women - Elizabeth Wurtzel; In Cold Blood - Capote; also, I continually reread Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Bill Waterson [Calvin & Hobbes, bitches] ps, Jane Eyre still makes me a bit emotional.
"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."
-- A. L. Kitselman
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
-- Aldous Huxley
"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." --Charlie Parker
"Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe."
-- Douglas Adams
"Feminists don't hate men. We simply enjoy them on our own terms." -- Maura Glee, clango.org