culture, poetry in motion, periodicals, runner's high, hot sauce, trying to keep my plants alive, rollercoasters, high fashion, ghetto gold, Cleveland Browns Super Bowl season, Star Wars, saturdays, shuffle songs, crossword puzzles, headlines, hugs, laughter, espionage, afterhours, pokerface, passports, NPR, muSic, travels, complimentary items, new friends, old friends, silver, gold, double meanings, breakfast!, WATER, powerful lip balms and strong spirits.
someone who makes me see fireworks the other 364 days of the year.
"...for me is proof of the existence of God." For me it is proof of the perfection of the universe: Joni Mitchell, Mos Def, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Beck, Dinosaur Jr., Jimi Hendrix, Shins, Pavement, Richard Buckner, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Aretha, Modest Mouse, Steely Dan, Ani D., Outkast, Aceyalone, Blackalicious, Z-Trip, Tori Amos, Bob Dylan, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Otis Redding, Biggie, Bright Eyes, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kanye, TLC, Cap'n'Jazz, Astrud Gilberto, Serge Gainsbourg, Todd Rundgren, Police, Paul Simon, Jeffrey Lewis, Al Green, Nina Simone, DILLARD'S MISTAKE, Sam Cooke, Spoon, Sleater-Kinney, Archers of Loaf, Smog, Franklin Bruno, Missy Elliott, Elliott Smith, anything Tom Petty involves himself with, Simon Joyner, Mountain Goats, The Smiths, David Bowie, KIKI AND HERB!!!, Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Concretes, Darktown House Band, Tom Waits, Ween, Abba, Sade, Refused, Fugazi, Kate Bush, Michelle Shocked, Teenage Harlets, The Lovemongers, ELO, Satchel Grande, Supertramp, Regina Spektor, Daniel Johnston, Mary J. Blige, Destiny's Child, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Joe Tex, bluegrass Modest Mouse (pickin' on series), Coyote Bones!!!, Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Shiver Shiver, Kate Nash, Beyonce, George Michael, Love As Laughter...
documentary and horror
The Amazing Race!
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Great Gatsby, Cat's Cradle (anything Vonnegut), The Outsiders, any Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Porter, Sylvia Plath, Belle Waring, Pablo Neruda, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Thoreau, Emerson, Leaves of Grass, East of Eden, The Bible According to Mark Twain, The Sound and the Fury, any Flannery O'Connor, David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Dorothy Parker, travel literature...and did I mention magazines? I read them when I should be reading books.
Wonder Woman. Wilma. Princess Leia. Agent Cooper. The Universe. My friends.