Hiking in the Columbia gorge, camping in the cascades, rock climbing, making things, crochet, half-finished projects, reading, microbrewed beer, making yummy meals with my husband, music on vinyl, learning bossa nova guitar chords, playing ukulele, mandolin, my classical guitar, Drew’s steel string, stereo headphones, watching Drew make me breakfast, going to shows, making mixed cd’s for friends, sending things to people colorful packaging, the three dollar movie theater with a pitcher of beer, genetics and doing DNA research, evolutionary biology, listening to Andrew explain geological processes, going to Powell’s city of books, sitting on my little balcony and drunk-dialing people I miss in Austin, recording music on cubase, the Oregon coast, learning to surf, snuggle sessions, playing frisbee at the Laurelhurst park, dragging Drew to the craft store, wikipedia, utube, laying on blanket outside, drinking my friends under the table and being a spaz, making fun of hipsters, scaring hiccups out of people, sleeping in the back of our truck, movie quotes, trying to recall dreams, going for aimless walks thru the city, eating sushi, Thai, Indian, and Mexican food, commuting by bicycle, reading myself to sleep.
downward dog, babies with rabies, school is cancelled, schizophrenic babysitter, the blue collar criminals, upward mobility, answering machine, i love lamp, the prissies, the pansies, the velveteen dandy fops, too cool for college, nightmare USA, smells like burning, your girlfriend's fat, slobby knob, pu pu platter without the platter, trapeeze disco.
the host, the tiger and the snow, the science of sleep, slam, dead man, cool hand luke, the princess bride, the big lebowski, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, crumb, heathers, y tu mamma tambien, amelie, bottlerocket, rushmore, napoleon dynamite, pee wee's big adventure, edward scissorhands, baraka, microcosmos, winged migration, wayne's world, goonies, the meaning of life, best in show, waiting for guffman, this is spinal tap, wet hot american summer, and an endless list of other movies that i get a kick out of quoting at random times when no one knows what the hell i'm talking about.
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Anna Karenina. Lolita. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Franz Kafka. Howard Zinn. The Sirens of Titan. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Me Talk Pretty One Day, anything by David Sedaris. Please Kill Me. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Puablo Neruda. A Thousand and One Nights. The Hitchhiker's Guide Series. Grimms' Fairytales. Stephen J. Gould. The Illustrated Man. The Blind Watchmaker. The Sound and the Fury. Invitation to a Beheading. Everything that Rises Must Converge. Plays by Edward Albee. Nathaniel Hawthorne. David Foster Wallace. Charles Baudelaire.
Michel Gondry, Georgia Hubley, Stephen J. Gould, Christopher Guest, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Amy Poehler, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Charles Darwin