superficiality; chocolate, especially Belgian; lines of flight; 19th century European art; Hegel (damn Hegel); the communal living aspect of ancient Greek universities (I just wanna head back to those gardens, except that I wouldn't have been admitted, being a woman and all); Alpine cows; die Deutsche sprache (es ist ja der hammer!); being able to characterize the different eras of popular music and naming quintessential songs from these eras; people who can run a whole marathon; reading recipes; the Royal Winnipeg Ballet; swimming in rivers
Morrissey: "but sometimes Id feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to Live and I want to Love, I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of." Slavoj Zizek, but only if he's lounging in front of a painting of a vagina. And Lori Catherine Susanne Dueck, because she's THE BEST PERSON I KNOW.
When 'forced' to make a 2006 year in the rearview CD, this is what I came up with:Airline to Heaven - Billy Bragg & Wilco; The Jessica Numbers - The New Pornographers; CN Tower Belongs to the Dead - Final Fantasy; Sunflower - Low; What There is to Find - Whizbang Shufflers; Wolfgang - Elliott Brood; Messages - Xavier Rudd; My Love - Justin Timberlake; Going Back to Harlan - Emmyloud Harris; I Found A Reason - Cat Power; Streetfighting Man - The Rolling Stones; The End of the Line - The Traveling Wilburys; I Don't Want to Know - Fleetwood Mac; El Carreterro - Buena Vista Social Club; The Coast - Paul Simon; I Zimbra - Talking Heads; Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths; That Voice Again - Peter Gabriel; Lovers in a Dangerous Time - Bruce Cockburn; Martha - Tom WaitsUnrepresented, but important artists: Paul Bergman, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell, Danny Schmidt, The Velvet Underground, The Clash, The Weakerthans (I'm a dedicated Winnipegger)
The Royal Tenenbaums (perfect script, cast, wardrobe, set, music, cinematography, etc.); Almost Famous; Empire Records; Before Sunrise & Before Sunset (the second was actually better than the first); Clueless (a classic); Pride & Prejudice (I'm talking the 6 hour, Colin Firth, A & E version, not the Hollywood/Keira Knightley botch up); When Harry Met Sally (best romantic comedy of all time); Drive Me Crazy (most underrated teenage romance of all time); all dance movies
Everything Joss: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly (in that order); Gilmore Girls; So you think you can dance
Being Reconciled - John Milbank; The Beauty of the Infinite - David Bentley Hart; Torture and Eucharist - William T. Cavanaugh; A Precarious Peace - Chris Huebner (I got a shout out in the acknowledgments, so I gotta include it); Christ and Culture - Graham Ward; Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver; The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
Anne of Green Gables; Paul Simon; Cindy Marie-Small; my grandpa, Henry Gerbrandt; Janie from the movie "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"; Bill Blaikie