Coach purses (yowza!) - coffee shops - crashing my Dell laptops - The Democratic National Committee - eating out - environmentalism - Experience Music Project - family - Feng Shui - finding secluded beaches - friends - getting my Sunday New York Times - hiking - knitting scarves (haha) - long road trips microbrews - Montréal - movies - National Resources Defense Council - Netflix - New York City - pharmacy - reading - Seattle - Sierra Club - silver rings - skydiving - snorkeling - text messaging - Tim Hortons - tea - Toronto - travel - trying to figure out my iPod Photo - trusting my instinctsMy favorite place on Earth is Cairns, Queensland, Australia:
- driving up the Queensland coast on the cliffside Captain Cook Highway and sunbathing on Four Mile Beach
- driving down The Bruce Highway through banana and sugar cane farms just to make it to Australia's most secluded beach, Mission Beach
- walking into downtown Cairns to have an open grille sandwich at Coast Roast Café
- wading in the man-made saltwater beach on the Esplanade
- haggling with local vendors at the Night Markets
- spending the day in Kuranda, a wonderful village in the rainforest
Members of my Dinner Party:
1) My nephew, Sammy, in 20 years time.
2) Fidel Castro ca. 1978 including a newly lit Cuban cigar in his mouth.
3) Arthur Miller at the height of Death of Salesman's success.
4) Joan Fontaine ca. 1945 after filming Jane Eyre with Orson Welles.
5) Post-Pulp Fiction Christopher Walken (i.e. present day Walken).
And also:
FELLOW DYSLEXICS:
U N T I E !
The Arcade Fire - Audioslave - Beastie Boys - Better Than Ezra - Blue Rodeo - BLUE OCTOBER - Blur - Coldplay - Common - Cowboy Junkies - The Cure - Fiona Apple - Foo Fighters* - Interpol - Iron and Wine - Jack Johnson - James Blunt - Kanye West - Kelly Clarkson - Massive Attack - Mazzy Star - Missy Higgins - Neil Diamond - Oasis - OK Go - Radiohead - The Rheostatics - She Wants Revenge - Smashing Pumpkins (RIP)** - Snow Patrol - Weezer - Yo La Tengo
* Foo Fighters' album, The Colour and the Shape, got me through my three years in pharmacy school.
** The Smashing Pumpkins' album, Siamese Dream, was the very FIRST CD I ever bought in the fall of 1993.
13 Going on 30 - 21 Grams - Amelie - The Anchorman - Amores Perros - The Aviator - Batman: The Beginning - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Bridget Jones's Diary 1 & 2 - Caddyshack - Cast Away - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Closer - The Crime of Padre Amaro - Dodgeball - Elf - Envy - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Fight Club - Garden State - The Graduate - Kill Bill, Vols 1 & 2 - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels - Lord of the Rings (all 3) - Lost in Translation - Maria Full of Grace - Meet the Fockers - Memento - My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Nacho Libre - Ocean's Eleven - Old School - Pride & Prejudice - The Royal Tenenbaums - Shopgirl - Signs - The Sixth Sense - Skycaptain & the World Tomorrow - Snatch - Star Wars episodes - Super Troopers - Talladega Nights - Traffic - Unbreakable - The Village - Wedding Crashers - X-Men (the series thus far) - Y Tu Mama Tambien - Zoolander
Actors: Cate Blanchette - Gael Garcia Bernal
Directors: Guy Ritchie - Quentin Tarantino - Wes Anderson
Bob and Margaret - Chappelle's Show - Charmed - The Corbert Report - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Daisy Does America - Deal or No Deal - Degrassi - ER - Everybody Loves Raymond - Family Guy - Friends - Futurama - Kids in the Hall - Mad TV - The Maury Show - The New Detectives - The Office - Reno 911 - Saturday Night Live - Scrubs - Seinfeld - The Simpsons - Strangers with Candy
Okay, so just about everything on Comedy Central but I swear, I don't watch a lot of TV.
America, the Book - Bridget Jones Diary (both books) - Catcher in the Rye - The Crucible - Death of a Salesman - Franny & Zoey - The Ice Queen - Imperial Hubris: How America is Losing the War on Terror - The Ice Queen - Joy Luck Club - The Memoirs of Geisha - The Rise of the Creative Class - To Kill a Mockingbird - Yell-Oh! Girls
Just about every novelty junk book available at Urban Outfitters.
My mother.
Pierre Trudeau (RIP).