What do I like reduced into one paragraph???? Oh my, lets see…Planting a garden, poetry reading late in the night, long weekends and never ending vacations, wadding out into Lake Michigan and committing to dive under, red-red wine and the local vineyards (especially Willow!), three hour naps, the smell of freshly cut grass, finding petoskey stones, being barefoot, my family, sushi and watching people use chopsticks for the first time, snorkeling, burning campfire ambers, spontaneity, travel (both luxury and roughing it), cocktail hour, northern lights and shooting stars, live music, sleeping on the beach, snowboarding, warm sheets on a cold morning, pixie-bobs and shiba inus, creativity, the drive-in, keeping the windows open all year, water, the anticipation of a good thunderstorm or blizzard, laughter, coffee-coffee-coffee, being a better person, a challenge, fishing, BBQ’s with friends, flowers, being at the beach from sunrise to sunset, finding morels, talent, the smell of dirt in the spring, all the good people I surround myself with, and most of all unexpected surprises!! Phew….
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Musically kicking the summer off right are Rocco DeLuca and The Burden, Mali Woods, The Be Good Tanyas,Lilly Allen, Jose Gonzalas, Regina Spektor, Cat Power, Iron and Wine, Amy Winehouse, Brett Dennen, Mika, Paolo Nutini, Calexico, Ray LaMontagne, Antony and the Johnsons, and Jem. Other favorites depending on the various moods include Frou Frou, Amos Lee, Nellie McKay, Feist, Rachel Yamagata, Portishead, RJD2, Inara George, Fiona Apple, Pinback, the man Rufus, Joseph Arthur, G. Love, White Stripes, Ben Harper, The Strokes, Eva Cassidy, Rasputina, Damien Rice, Joshua Radin, Ani, Loreena McKennitt, Taj Mahal, The Duhks, Lucinda Williams, Tito and Tarantulas, Blind Boys of Alabama, Gipsy Kings, Nick Drake, Allison Krauss, Sarah Harmer, Mindy Smith and The Buena Vista Social Club. Locally, Steppin’ in It, Liquid Courage, Jay Webber, Daisy May and Seth Bernard, and Miriam Pico
It is a rarity that I have ever turned down a movie date (out or at home). Top pick is Moulin Rouge followed by Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Vanilla Sky, Amelie, Requiem For A Dream, American Movie, Red Violin, House of Flying Daggers, Adaptation, Tao of Steve, Life is Beautiful, A River Runs Through It, Frida, Romeo and Juliet, American Beauty, The Crow, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Royal Tenenbaums, Fear and Loathing, Shakespeare In Love, The Fisher King, Old School ('we're going streaking!') Shrek (1,2, and hopefully 3), Fight Club, Spanglish, and more recently The Constant Gardner, Reign Over Me, Happy Feet, and The Departed
When it's on, it's more for background noise. I am a fanatic for Grey's Anatomy and Meerkat Manner (FYI, I was told meerkats are one of the most highly regulated exotic species and can NOT be adopted…yes, I tried). I also thoroughly enjoy HGTV and dreaming about the house I will build someday
My secret passion! Big fan of anything by Augusten Burrough's; Running With Scissors, Magical Thinking, Dry/ A Heartbreaking Work By Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggars/ Anything by Gregory Maquire; Wicked, Son of a Witch, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister/ Sideways, by Rex Pickett/ Girls Guide To Hunting and Fishing, by Melissa Bank/ All of David Sedaris, particularly Me Talk Pretty One Day/ You can't go wrong and not learn something with Carlos Castaneda, Paulo Coelho, or Hermann Hesse/ She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb/ I can be lulled to sleep by the sweet works of Neruda anytime/ Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, by Lorrie Moore/ A Posturing of Fools, by Brewster Milton Robertson/ Nicolas Sparks for a good tear jerker/ Swimming, by Joanna Hershon/ Don Miguel Ruiz/ Pure Drivel, by Steve Martin/ Loved(!) The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown/ Anything out of the poetry book Aloud -Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe/ And currently I am still trying to finish A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey, even though it's lost its meaning! Latest book indulgence was Dogs of Babel, Poisonwood Bible, Sellevision and We're Just Like You Only Prettier!