gondola rides in lightening storms, actually going out for breakfast, robots, garage sales, making pretty thank you notes, lists, dogs, new felt tip pens, peppermint anything, photobooths, coney island, scrabble, typewriters, being scared, mix cds, eating with spoons & drinking through straws, my gramps, petfinder, misbehaving animals, very long sleeves, things with hoods or pouches, swimming in rough ocean, a-line skirts, fancy dinners, photos, bike envy, synchronicities, pandas, wine, scarves, climbing things not meant to be climbed, cheese!, bowling, driving, pigtails, coffee,long walks in unfamiliar places, being sentimental, writing, NPR, vintage dresses, collaging, popsicles, maoris, overtipping, freight elevators, semantics, other peoples' medicine cabinets, raw tuna, eyeshadow, canada, obnoxious litcrit & other wankerism, splenda, spotted things, quorn, old old books, life as cinema, vivian remembering, big sunglasses, tiny picture frames, german postcards, nonsense, pakoras, chemises, ugly pretty, boozing, slurpees, suspension bridges,contradictions, iconography, drunken biking, polaroids, irregular choices, the caliente, dusk, big noisy earrings, autumn, art teacher sweaters, praying mantises, burritos, montreal, general francophilia, loud music in long showers, high heels.
bleeding hearts. those who still cut the plastic six pack rings up before throwing them out. readers. real life agent coopers. a young canadian who wants to temporarily marry me for mutual citizenship benefits so i can eventually live in montreal, eat at la commensal constantly, have a wolf dog and frequent the biodome. llamas. big idea havers. cuddlers. those who are aware that puppy paws smell like popcorn. isabella blow. a cheerful siamese cat with three legs. dogooders. bowie. my mom at age 16. PSH! friendly pharmacists. a hypnotherapist. familytree tracers. a french teacher. people who think that their dogs should wear little hats and/or comical vests. a habit-breaker.
generally everything involving bells/glockenspiels/theremins or chimey loveliness. the music i will make with todd. 365 days of matt hickman's laughs.
lebowski, i really did like the science of sleep, me and you and everyone we know, auntie mame, talk to her, capote, rosemary’s baby, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, rushmore, tennenbaums, the great muppet caper, killbill, donnie darko, all about my mother, great expectations, punch drunk love, adaptation, triplets of belleville, 8.5, heathers, kungfu!, teenwitch, the dark crystal, goonies, ferris, amelie, lost in translation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, cinema paradiso, phenomena, le planet fantastique, city of god, best in show, the lion the witch and the wardrobe (old), waiting for guffman, the exorcist, edward scissorhands, the secret of NIMH, all the national lampoon vacations (im particularly partial to european vacation, although who could hate on wallyworld?), city of lost children, magnolia, blue velvet, buffalo '66, alice in wonderland, the shining, almost famous, the squid and the whale.
my dog and my dave fight over the remote. i let them.
wittgensteins mistress, last exit to brooklyn, elegy for toy piano, a fan's notes, house of paper, sweet pickles, middlesex, motherless brooklyn, the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay, wonderboys, run with the hunted, the dubliners, the tesseract, evelyn waugh, birthday letters, interpreter of maladies, the giving tree, house of leaves, vox, the end of alice, ahbwosg, graham greene, crying of lot 49, the world according to garp, dennis cooper, bee season, hour of the star, the great gatsby, the safety of objects, aimee bender, rick moody, optic nerve, paul auster, the god of small things, the bone people, stephen dunn, inventions of the march hare, donald barthelme, raymond carver, camille paglia, ariel, white noise, d.h. lawrence, n+1, cloud atlas, ghostwritten, annie proulx, mary karr, john updike, tobias wolff, edna st. vincent millay, portnoys complaint, ring lardner, flannery oconnor, robert foster wallace, jonathan safran foer, joyce carol oates, america:poems of these states, aldous huxley, joan didion, anita desai, brett easton ellis, cirlot's dictionary of symbols, dorothy parker, p. roth, gunter grass, elie weisel, roald dahl.
munchie, e.joswick, that man on his bike all over boston proper with his sonorous woohooing; he makes everyone either smile or scratch their heads. i like that.