My children, literature, writing, film, people watching, music, fashion, photography, history, words, linguistics, languages, literary theory, art, travel, good food (producing and consuming), culture, good coffee, psychology, skiing, climbing, attaining a tenured position in an English department at university.
I'd like to meet:
How about who I'd like to unmeet, hmmm? Fine. I'll play along...
Alive: Julia Kristeva, Neil Gaiman, Louise Erdrich, my mother without being her daughter, Majid Majidi, Jacques Barzun, that Braff kid, Sabina Ott, Romantica
Dead: Jack, my Grandfather, Amelia Earhart, Akira Kurosawa, Oscar Wilde, Claude T. Smith (again)
To be Continued...
How to make a Rae
Ingredients:
5 parts mercy
3 parts self-sufficiency
3 parts empathy
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of lovability
Username:
Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com
Music:
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(This list isn't any sort of hierarchical listing, mkay?) Kings of Convenience, Nina Simone, Cary Brothers, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Rachael Yamagata, Doyle Bramhall II, 80s music (good, bad, and ugly), Miles Davis, The Brimms, Chopin, Diana Krall, Romantica, Jay Z, Ray LaMontagne, Annie Lennox, Franz Ferdinand, Brad Byrd, Ella Fitzgerald, Van Morrison, Rich Mullins, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Outkast, Aimee Mann, Wilco, The Cranberries, The Rolling Stones, Gomez, Patsy Cline, Sufjan Stevens, Flight of the Conchords, Speechwriters LLC, Fiona Apple, Amos Lee, Bonnie Raitt, Schuyler Fisk, The Be Good Tanyas, Johnny Cash long before he covered the 90s, Finley Quaye, Barenaked Ladies, Peggy Honeywell, The Utmost, Liz Phair, Bessie Smith, Nouvelle Vague, George Winston, The Incredible Moses Leroy, Joshua Radin, Lenny Kravitz, Tom Waits, Jackson Browne, Colin Hay, Pink Floyd, Mark Kozelek, Mason Jennings, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Talking Heads, Rickie Lee Jones, Ryan Adams, Smashing Pumpkins, Rufus Wainwright, Imogen Heap, Hot Chip, Susan Graham, Sade, Sheryl Crow, They Might Be Giants, My Bloody Valentine, Damien Rice, The Clash, Squeeze, U2, Zero 7, Yo-Yo Ma, Radiohead, Duncan Sheik, A Tribe Called Quest, Ben Folds, Madeleine Peyroux, Ani Difranco, The Killers, Nikka Costa, GoldFrapp,
Movies:
Typically foreign and independent films are my first picks. Nowhere in Africa, The Constant Gardener, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Braveheart, Life is Beautiful, A las folie...pas du tout, Across the Universe, What Dreams May Come, Garden State, Love Actually, 13 Conversations About One Thing, Kill Bill, Trois Couleurs,The Lives of Others, Children of Heaven, A River Runs Through It, Fight Club, Pauline and Paulette, Punch Drunk Love, Mystery Train, The Godfather (1 and 2), goodnight, and good luck., The Shawshank Redemption, Spirited Away, Amelie, Donnie Darko, Mirrormask, The Color of Paradise, Howl's Moving Castle, Pulp Fiction, Bread and Tulips, Ever After, Persuasion, Memento, most of the 80s Brat Pack films for pure nostalgia and laughs for my teen daughters
Television:
Scrubs, Arrested Development, Sex and the City, The Office, Family Guy
Books:
The Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism (You think I'm lying? What professor do you think is reading this? Uh-huh. That's what I thought), The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by Joshua Braff (yes, Zach Braff has a brother), She by Saul Williams, Beowulf, Corpus Christi by Bret Anthony Johnston, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Blankets by Craig Thompson, Persuasion by Jane Austen, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth by Chris Ware, Girl Meets God by Lauren F. Winner, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier, Epileptic by David B., The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold, Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold, Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich, Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne, The Secret Garden and A Little Princess both by Frances Hodgson Burnett, any of the Olivia stories by Ian Falconer, The poetry of Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, William Carlos Williams, and Saul Williams
Heroes:
Not so real: Batman. He isn't bestowed with unique power; he just has an agenda and really cool gadgets. Oh. And he's intelligent.
Real people: the people that find the strength to survive each day and to resist, my daughters, my brother, my mother, my friends, and Dan Malloy (below)
