great theater,good theater, bad theater, french films, experimental films,champagne wishes and caviar dreams,3 Michelin Star Restaurants LeBernadin(New York City),Jean Georges(New York City),Per Se(New York City),French Laundry(Yountville[Napa Valley],CA[my favorite restaurant in the world], Guy Savoy(Paris),Gordon Ramsay(London) any great restaurants-Gotham Bar and Grill(New York City),Peter Luger's(Brooklyn,NY),Smith & Wollensky (New York City),Iron Chef (Brooklyn Heights,NY)Chanterelle(New York City),Nobu(New York,Los Angeles,Malibu),Brandywine(Los Angeles),Lucques(Los Angeles),A.O.C.(Los Angeles),Mastro's Steakhouse Beverly Hills(Los Angeles), new york after-hour spots(we are talking 8a.m.)yoga(Ansura,Ashtanga,Kundalini,Bikram,Vinyasa,Iyengar, Kripalu)world traveling,resort towns,ClubMed,photography,sitting at the point where the ocean meets the beach and letting the waves blow up my shorts,creative writing,a box of Crayola 64 with built in sharpener and a sheaf of construction paper,fine and contemporary art museums,oil paints,canvases of all different sizes,pastels,chalk,acrylics, textured paper,buying art,galleries,small art boutiques,self-expression,being introspective,sailing,camping,roadtrips,motorcycles,The Wall StreetJournal,Barron's,BusinessWeek,Investor's Business Daily,dividends,DJIA,P/E ratios,open spaces,lofts,transformed commercial spaces,house hunting,my Mac Powerbook,my IPOD,cooking,wine buying,wandering aimlessly in New York,London,San Francisco while intoxicated,Barnes and Noble,New York Public Library[those two lions make my heart smile]incessant reading,randomly picking up a magazine on a topic I previously had no interest in,reconnecting,romance,falling in love,making out till that distinct vermillion line of your lips blurs with the outer extremities of your mouth and your jaw hurts in the morning[ok that hasn't happened since high-school-under the tree by the driver's ed. track],making people laugh,lying outside in the grass on a balmy evening with a loved one and looking up at the moon and stars and waffling,waffling in general(irish term for talking incessantly about topics of little importance),irish whiskey,super tuscans,heineken,a fine bordeaux(2000[yummy]1989,1990,1995,2003,my 1970 CHÂTEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 1er CRU, PAUILLAC is one of the prizes of my collection)napa valley cabernets,sonoma valley pinot noirs,champagne(especially veuve clicquot yellow label brut non-vintage),bombay sapphire and tonic *this section is a really alcoholic thing to say,hard boiled eggs,bagel and nova lox with tomatoes red onions capers and cream cheese, greek salad with extra feta cheese,sashimi,celery,toast and butter,cucumbers,Fiji artisan water,shrimp cocktails,rock concerts,hip-hop culture,graffiti,hieroglyphics, riding the subway(New York,Philadelphia,Boston,San Francisco,Chicago,Brussels,London,Lyon,Marseille,Mexico City,Montreal,Vancouver,Paris,Amsterdam,Rotterdam,Athens,Ban gkok)*because I hate driving but mostly because I LOVE people watching,cycling,swimming,beach volleyball,making lists, and of course you, yes that's right you.
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Regina Spektor, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, OAR, Fiona Apple, Joni Mitchell, Rage Against the Machine, Bjork, John Mayer, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Rufus Wainwright, Death Cab for Cutie, New Pornographers, Arctic Monkeys, Blink-182, Lifter, Audioslave, Foo Fighters, Def Leppard, Janis Joplin, Queen, ABBA, Led Zeppelin, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Jimi Hendrix, Thelonius Monk, Duke Ellington, Colin Hay Band, The Wallflowers, Gym Class Heroes, Beck, The Pixies, The Decemberists, The Shins, The Fray, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, NIN, Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, David Gray, Aqualung, Bob Dylan, Modest Mouse, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Marzuki, Sufjan Stevens, The Who, The Beatles, Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, Maroon 5, Zero 7, Metric, Radiohead, Marcy Playground, Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan, Styx, Journey, Tenacious D, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ragsy
"It's a lie. It's a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and... all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it's beautiful 'cause that's what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone... But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so... the exhibition is reassuring which makes it a lie, and everyone loves a big fat lie."
"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."-Milan Kundera. I avoided this movie like the plague simply because it is one of my all time favorite novels. I read an article where director Liev Schreiber said he was basing it on the New Yorker article excerpt and not the novel itself and I almost vomited blood. Schreiber however is a masterful storyteller and has made a film about the search for meaning and identity an all time classic. Kudos to Schreiber, Elijah Wood, and Eugene Hutz for retaining the heart of this brilliant novel.
Protocols of Zion- an HBO documentary film, Au Revoir les Enfants, March of the Penguins, Schindler's List, The Shawshank Redemption, Big Night, Confidences Trop Intimes, Se7en, Le Gout des Autres, Capturing the Friedmans,Scarface, Reservoir Dogs, American Beauty, Goodfellas, The House of Sand and Fog, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Virgin Suicides, I Heart Huckabees, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, True Romance, 40 Year Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Brokeback Mountain, Million Dollar Baby, Shaun of the Dead, The Science of Sleep, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Prestige
Bravo TV's America's Next Top Chef, Project Runway, Top Design, Shear Genius,(I'm obsessed!!!),Inside the Actor's Studio(well before they started interviewing the likes of Billy Joel,Quincy Jones and Ben Affleck), HBO's Angels in America, The Sopranos, Entourage, Extras, or anything HBO for that matter
Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss from the co-author of How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson, The Illuminated Rumi by Jalal Al-Din Rumi translated by Michael Green and Coleman Barks, Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson, Where the Wild Things by Maurice Sendak, Naked by David Sedaris, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer,Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut,Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera,Ignorance: A Novel by Milan Kundera,The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers,The Four Agreements-A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz,The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth, Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, Life of Pi by Yann Martel,The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger,Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov,A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess,A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce,Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind,Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins,To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf,Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf,The Hours by Michael Cunningham,Flesh And Blood by Michael Cunningham,Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry,The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss, Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert, The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, The Glass Castle : A Memoir by Jeannette Walls, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Stranger by Albert Camus