Besides cars, books, and cooking I like to swim, breathe, star gaze, read, and go to thrift stores. I surround myself with people I can learn from whenever possible. Also, caipirinhas (how hot is that to say?!) should come with their own little marching band. I'm a big fan of piercing and tattoos. And my boyfriend. Southern food is my bag-corn bread, greens, sweet tea, pork ribs, oh my. And I can't live without water-I know everyone can't, but I really can't.
People who are not lame. If you're lame don't talk to me.
Embrace, Maximo Park, Heart, RJD2, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones, Hard-Fi, The Who, Foo Fighters, Everclear, Stereophonics, CSS, Tegan & Sara, Reverend & The Makers, Eve 6, The Mighty Boosh, Nina Simone, Russell Brand podcasts, Talib Kweli, Queen, Taj Mahal, Kate Nash (hysterically cynical), Incubus, The Weakerthans, The Long Winters, Parliament, Keane, Something Corporate, Billy Joel, Erykah Badu, the incomparable Thomas Newman, Cat Power, Billie Holiday, The Kings of Leon, Common, Pat Benatar (oh Pat). Most 80s especially butt rock, hip-hop that doesn't discuss females or their body parts in a derogatory fashion, country without too much twang, and most classic rock finish out the list.
Boondock Saints, Empire Records, Top Gun, Last of the Mohicans, Better Off Dead, Green Street, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Transamerica, Bandits, Rent, High Fidelity, Spaceballs, Vanity Fair, Batman Begins (pretty much the sole instance of DC quality), Wayne's World, SLC Punk, Pretty Woman, Zoolander, Marvel as an institution (even when they're terrible like Daredevil), Harry Potter, Ace Ventura, The Affair of the Necklace, Princess Bride, Blood Diamond, Underworld, Animal House, Princess Mononoke, Ghostbusters, Wet Hot American Summer, The Goonies, Weird Science, The Burbs, Braveheart, Death at a Funeral.
I have time but choose not to partake. As a matter of principle. The odd Tottenham football game with Dan being the exception of course.
If you seek soggy pants and a sore face pick up Watermelon by Marian Keyes or My Booky Wook from Russell Brand. The man is a genius and so is the man who provided the introduction. 3 I also like Roddy Doyle, John Grisham, all the Harry Potter books, AHEB, The Chronicles of Narnia, My Year of Meats, Fair Play, The Book Thief, 1984, One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest, Some Girls, Stone Soup, and my Communication and the Sexes textbook Gendered Lives.
Sei Shonagun. Rob Gordon. Whoever designed the NSX. Botticelli. Thomas Newman. Dave Grohl. The great big sleepy bumbly.