MEL LIKES: the ability to think, see, feel, smell, hear, and taste...long and arduous political debates...pleasant conversations not involving politics...the wonderful girls i nanny for and their wonderful parents...crispin glover...bowling...my table top space invaders... male strippers (specifically the ones from mr. mom)...superheroes and what superhuman ability people would have given the chance... cheese... detroit... the noise of movie projectors in a dark theater... love... fashion of the 1930's... oak st. beach... kindness... the smell of wetnaps...friends...
MEL DISLIKES: scorpions... elevators... zombies... comas...cleaning product commercials... Bush...long distance relationships...having my knees touched...
myself a year ago, so i could kick my own ass.
of late:
islands...art brut...andrew bird...canasta...m.ward...pj harvey's rid of me... radiohead's pablo honey...tchaikovsky's 5th...fen's mix tape....cici's blue mix...sonic youth's goo...
marie antoinette (it's flawless)...the big empty (best short ever)...one week (funniest keaton film) sherlock jr (best keaton film)... harry potter (mostly the third one)... fahrenheit 451...the dreamers...the house of yes...moulin rouge... dream with the fishes... lawn dogs... human nature... what's eating gilbert grape... wet hot american summer... vertigo... say anything... eternal sunshine... edward scissorhands... city of lost children... lemony snicket...bring it on... mean girls... 10 things i hate about you... the anniversary party... it happened one night... city lights... don't tell mom the babysitters dead... lord of the rings... point break....saved by the bell: the movie (the hawaii one)... double indemnity... monster squad...breakfast at tiffany's... pride and prejudice (the colin firth one)... gone with the wind... secretary... royal tenenbaums... amelie... quills... queen margot... persona... love actually... so so many more.
dexter. californication. meadowlands. the tudors.
damn you showtime.
BOOKS: Sartre (particularly no exit, even though it's just a play...moving on...)... Alain de Botton (particularly on love)...Jonathan Safran Foer (everything is illuminated)... Anthony Burgess (part. the wanting seed... Frances Farmer (will there really be a morning)... James W. Loewen (lies my teachers told me)... George Saunders (the brief and frightening reign of phil)...Trina Paulus (hope for the flowers)... J.K. Rowling (harry potter, of course)...Tim Burton (the melancholy death of oyster boy and other short stories)... Hedy Lamarr (ecstasy and me)... Shel Silverstein (the giving tree)... J.R.R. Tolkein (lord of the rings)...Che Guevara (motorcycle diaries, thanks for stealing it mike)... Alfred Hitchcock, various (stories that scared even me)... Ben Stiller/Janeane Garafolo (feel this book) ...Compilation (this is my best)... Lazar (aaron approximately)... something queer at the haunted school..... POETS: Walt Whitman, John Ashbery, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, Edna St. Vincent Millay...... VARIOUS: psychology textbooks... dictionaries... pharmacotherapy reference guides... non-fiction 60's political books....anything related to 20th century history, part. WWII.
nicholas skala (for actually trying to make the world a better place and not sitting around bitching about it from the sidelines). frances farmer (for being tough). hedy lamarr (for not caring what people thought of her). charlie chaplin (for being a "citizen of the world"). jean-paul sartre (for everything). charles baudelaire (for writing the most beautiful things ever). stephen colbert (because he's amazing).