going out and painting the town, enjoying excellent (and often alcohol fuelled) banter with wonderful people, socialising, friends, laughter, literature, music, movies, drinking (alcohol, mostly), shopping, dancing stupidly to amazing music while extremely drunk, cocktails, cakes, tea, chocolate, spending too much money, being sentimental, daydreaming, staying up all night talking, taking long bubble baths, winter, cats, crappy magazines ("heat" in particular), starbucks, gigs, shoes, ice cream, reading, art exhibitions, talking absolute bollocks, sarcasm, wine, polkadots, pearls, poetry, coffee, stripey things, complaining, flirting, gin, gigs, southern comfort, rain, mixtapes, gossiping, being introspective, jack daniels, men, pubs, pottering about town, the brighton lanes, alliteration and other literary devices, colour coordination, procrastination, thunderstorms, snow
Someone who makes me smile.
björk, tori amos, the decemberists, fiona apple, bright eyes, neutral milk hotel, arcade fire, regina spektor, kate bush, rilo kiley, cat power, imogen heap, joanna newsom, the dresden dolls, radiohead, the cure, talking heads, joy division, the beatles, sufjan stevens, aimee mann, the smiths, muse, beck, beth orton, david bowie, pixies, suzanne vega, the pretenders, jenny lewis with the watson twins, feist, ani difranco, garbage, rufus wainwright, bonnie 'prince' billy, sigur rós, martha wainwright, elliott smith, pj harvey, tracy chapman, dusty springfield, death cab for cutie, bat for lashes, smog, yeah yeah yeahs, blondie, madonna, prince, justin timberlake, and much, much more...
american beauty, pulp fiction, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, lost in translation, magnolia, breakfast at tiffany's, control, amelie, edward scissorhands, fight club, girl interrupted, donnie darko, the matrix, little miss sunshine, mean girls, clueless, when harry met sally, bill and ted's excellent adventure, the rocky horror picture show, the little mermaid, beauty and the beast
sex and the city, friends, buffy, desperate housewives, ER, seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm, ally mcbeal, scrubs, green wing, black books, spaced, peep show, never mind the buzzcocks, anything trashy i'm afraid, and also interesting documentaries
wise children (angela carter), the great gatsby (f. scott fitzgerald), the virgin suicides (jeffrey eugenides), tales of the city (armistead maupin), lolita (vladimir nabokov), the bell jar (sylvia plath), mrs dalloway(virginia woolf), to kill a mockingbird(harper lee), the awakening (kate chopin), regeneration (pat barker), oranges are not the only fruit (jeanette winterson), the yellow wallpaper (charlotte perkins gilman), forever (judy blume's masterpiece...), erotica, and poetry collections.
audrey hepburn. björk. madonna. my mother.