Film and television. Writing. Walking/jogging/hiking. Music, music, music. Good literature, and trashy romances with heroes named "Cash." Tennis. Hot baths. Dysfunction. The desert. Vanilla candles. Flaws. Moments of silence. Popcorn. Comfortable Mary Jane's. Angry emails to my Congress people and Senators. Politics. Air America. Impeachment. Pore-refining moisturizer. Pink Sugar perfume. Sciatic nerves. Heating pads. Days in the city without smog or fog when you can see the mountains all over town. Shared fruit. Forty minute discussions about pies. State prisons. Bras with no underwire. The one moment every spring I am thankful I no longer receive a report card. Halloween. The voices of my mother or father on my answering machine. Not being MasterCard's bitch. The faint memory of paying .95 a gallon for gas in South Carolina. Soda in ice cold glass bottles. Blissful dogs with their heads out car windows. Wearing a necklace with a cross so that Christians will think I'm cool and spill all their secret plans for world domination. Snood. Keeping my accent. Things dipped in chocolate. The unattainable.Oh, and strippers.
I'd like to meet:
Stewie:
The height of my stalking career:
But if I can't have Kiefer... then someone who likes to play. Someone who'll let me be strong, and still pull me off my high horse when necessary. A left-leaner, surly, radical liberal-type who can still rock a tie. OR a wicked, old-fashioned, Jack-Bauer conservative who did NOT vote for GW. A man with a connoisseur's appreciation of a well-padded woman. (I'd also like to meet either Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly so I could sock them in the face.)
And hot bowlers.
Music:
Prince, Willie Nelson, ABBA, Pat Benatar, Jem, Eminem, Salt N Peppa, ELO, George Michael, Guns N Roses, Ray Charles, Damien Rice, Simon and Garfunkel, Go Go's, Nina Simone, Weepies, Madonna, Imogen Heap, CCR, Duran Duran, Lords of Acid, Bill Withers, Blossom Dearie, Stevie Wonder, Eagles, Dolly Parton, The Supremes, Beck, Joni Mitchell, They Might Be Giants, Heart, Cardigans, Janet AND Michael Jackson, Peter Paul and Mary, Marvin Gaye, Juice Newton, TP and the Heartbreakers, Deee-Lite, Sixpence, Olivia Newton-John, Human League, Fleetwood Mac, Pussycat Dolls, Genesis, Altered Images, old Van Halen, Hall and Oates, Zeppelin, Charlie Daniels, Supertramp, Outkast, White Stripes, Adam Ant, Fugees/Lauryn Hill/Wyclef, Beach Boys, Dixie Chicks, Alanis, Bangles, Fiona Apple, Jazzy Jeff AND The Fresh Prince, Boston, Blondie, Dido, Peter Gabriel, Fanny Pack, Earth Wind & Fire, Cyndi Lauper, Patsy Cline, Culture Club, KC and the Sunshine Band, Eurythmics, Johnny Cash, Tina Turner, Garbage, Roberta Flack, Zero 7, Sarah Brightman, Donna Summer, Elton John, Destiny's Child, Shirelles, Journey, Queen, Missy Elliott. Lennon... McCartney... I guess the Beatles don't suck.
Movies:
Shawshank, Heartburn, Coal Miner's Daughter, Junebug, Alien, Arthur, The Big Lebowski, Blood Simple, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Shaun of the Dead, King Kong (all), The Fog of War, Heavenly Creatures, 9 to 5, Sweet Dreams, Garp, The Eye, Without A Trace, Superman, Batman Begins, Dead Calm, Shrek, It's A Wonderful Life, Dangerous Liaisons, All The President's Men, Xanadu, The Sound of Music, Kung Fu Hustle, Outfoxed, Halloween, American Beauty, Election, Gone With The Wind, Dawn of the Dead, The Long Walk Home, Private Benjamin, V for Vendetta, Imitation of Life, Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, Boogie Nights, Remember The Titans, Reservoir Dogs, Truth About Cats and Dogs, When A Stranger Calls ('79), Heathers, Fatal Attraction, The Color Purple, West Side Story, American History X, Traffic, Bowling for Columbine, Sixteen Candles, Philadelphia, Kill Bill 1&2, Bambi, Forget Paris, What Lies Beneath, Crash, Rainman, Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back, The Exorcist, French Kiss, Unfaithful, Trekkies, Les Girls, Roller Boogie...
Television:
Miami Vice
Sorry, Michael Mann. You'll never do better than you already did.
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LET'S NOT FORGET THE BEST DAMN SHOW ON TELEVISION: 24
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AND THE REST... Dexter, Lost, Real Time with Bill Maher, Intervention, Battlestar Galactica, 48 Hours Mystery, All In The Family, Roseanne, Murphy Brown, Letterman, Designing Women, Moonlighting, thirtysomething, Sixty Minutes, Meet The Press, Big Brother, Freaks and Geeks, My Sister Sam, Facts of Life
Books:
A Prayer For Owen Meany, The Bluest Eye, Animal Farm, The Blind Assassin, Pigs In Heaven, The Ruins, The Crimson Petal and the White, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Night, Beloved, Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus, To Kill A Mockingbird, Running With Scissors, Dry, The Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, The Color Purple, Good In Bed -- only for its attempt at trailblazing... may there be many others... more real, more honest... I'll get right on that. (I tend to fall in love with books whose main character is either a young, black girl in the '30s, '40s or '50s, or a little, fat white girl... except I hated the book Fat Girl, a memoir. At the end, you read that today the author lives alone in an apartment in San Fran with a cat. A CAT! Honest to Christ. Suicide material.) And DO NOT READ 'JEMIMA J!' It made me cry. In a BAD way. Horrible for women. Just horrible.
Heroes:
My parents, Dr. King, Roseanne Barr, Lucille Ball, Michael Mann, Ed Bradley, Candy Crawley, Mode Magazine (RIP), Linda Bloodworth Thomason, Toni Morrison, fat Oprah, fat Minnie Driver, Han Solo, the Snapple lady
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Charles Schultz. "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
