Reading cerebral lit, pretending I've some higher purpose even though I know better, art galleries, museums, shitty pubs, GOOD music (see list below for definition), punk, poetry, theatre, vegan food, international travel, traveling long distances by foot, boof! (waterfalls), dancing, making people dance, cuddling, making people feel special and/or happy, earl grey tea with soymilk and sugar, scarves, Asia, big waves, new york city, skateboards, not owning a car, and my vespa:
Writers.
Musicians.
Train-hoppers.
Good people.
Someone to sing me to sleep.
JAZZ - (Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, MILES DAVIS, Ron Carter, Louis Armstrong) Also Radiohead, THOM YORKE (his solo stuff b/c it's nice and bleepy), Godspeed you!! black emperor, DIESELBOY, DEERHOOF, YACHT, DJ Dara, LCD soundsystem, CHROMEO, KLAXONS, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, aphex twin, the presets, soko, the postal service, the notwist, grizzly bear, efterklang, LADYTRON, figurine, THE STROKES, the vines, the hives, (dunno what it is about me & the aussies) metric, the smiths, the velvet underground, THE POLICE, the pixies, cat power, ray lamontagne, patti smith, yeah yeah yeahs, JOY DIVISION, the yardbirds, the kinks, THE CURE, IGGY POP & the stooges, THE STONE ROSES, the mahavishnu orchestra, JOHN COLTRANE, bauhaus, OMD, THE TALKING HEADS, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANCHEES, and we can't forget him: DAVID BOWIE. Plus (+) beautiful/gentle gorgeous music from my Icelandic friends: Björk and Sigur Rós. God bless you.
The Sea Inside, The Life Aquatic, Whale Rider, Masculin/Feminin, Charlotte et son Jules, Il Postino, Dancer in the Dark, Requiem for a Dream, Code 46, Wild Strawberries, Un Chien Andalou, Rushmore, Sideways, Igby Goes Down, Breakfast on Pluto, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Edukators, The Return (the russian film), Goodbye Lenin
has never done anything good for me.
most texts from the beat generation folks, 18th century cerebral lit (yes i actually enjoy reading Dryden), henry david thoreau, walt whitman (I <3 leaves of grass) and mary oliver. she's so earthy. also, czeslaw milosz, gabriel garcia marquez, milan kundera, and now haruki murakami. oh and neil gaiman, too. of course.