etsy.com, museums, riding the bus, eavesdropping, travel books, party dresses, biographies, train stations, learning spanish, subtitles, red lipstick, libraries, sincerity, documentaries, high heels, crying, coffee, Sundays, science, all things glamourous and dilapidated, anthropology and anthropologie, providence, westward migration, western mass, history, honey wine, archangels and warrior saints, hibiscus, hotels and airports, people watching, secret crushes, aging rockers, charming weirdos, photobooth pictures, wounded puppies, the sexy-ugly, starry eyes, kindness, farmer's markets, honduras, giant babies, twilight, teaching, los angeles
Lavender Diamond, Wilco, Wanda Jackson, Sleater Kinney, The Pixies, Prince, Johnny Cash, PJ Harvey, Patsy Cline, Blondie, Sonic Youth, The Clash, Cat Power, Belle & Sebastian, Dengue Fever, David Bowie, Luna, Serge Gainsbourg, Yo La Tengo, Neko Case, Bikini Kill, Elliot Smith, Tom Waits, lots of other stuff too
The Pick-up Artist. You know the scene in the natural history museum, when an infatuated Robert Downey Jr tries to woo Molly Ringwald with a group of singing students on her tour? i love that. if only the life of a museum lady was always so romantic.
keeps you from doing the things in life you ought to do.
i could go on and on. I like books about places. And people. And things. And ideas.Books and authors I love: Francesca Lia Block and the Weetzie Bat books A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Madeleine L'Engle White Oleander Catcher in the Rye 100 Years of Solitude Henry & June The Bell Jar To Kill a Mockingbird Wuthering Heights Dorothy Parker bell hooks Paulo Freire Sylvia Plath
Anais Nin, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Margaret Mead, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz