MySpace stalkers, unpretentious satire, pretentious satire, Dave Eggars, rain, cuddling, cuddling in the rain, being a grammar/spelling Nazi, the history of oppression of which I am an undeniable part, discovering the many ways to survive any kind of weather in non-sweatshop produced Converse knock-offs, YRUU/UUYAN, exclusivist acronyms, gay cowboys, psychology, psychologizing, too much volunteer work, writing, John Calvin, Thomas Hobbes, Calvin & Hobbes, theatre (Not theater. No matter what I tell you, never forget that, deep down, I'm really, really pretentious.), the ocean, techies, art, museums, art museums, graffiti, chocolate, activism, bookstores, learning and growing (though rarely simultaneously, to my immense frustration), frustration, psychobabble, politics, drums, guitar, guilty pleasures, quitting smoking, indy media, insomnia, Neitzsche, existentialism, fire, commas, people watching, watching you, tears, spirituality and religion (but rarely at the same time, and never with Capital Letters), e.e. cummings, peace, outsmarting Yahoo! Texttwist, protests, social action, poetry, philosophy, cynicism, ironic self-reference, and, of course, procrastination. Oh, and nihilism.
You. And maybe you. And probably you. But definetly not you. Well, maybe you. But you should probably bring brownies.
Helen Keller and the Deaf Mutes
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Saved, Requiem for a Dream, The Princess Bride, Amelie, Now & Then, Gia, Dogma, Postcards From the Edge, Waiting for Guffman, Empire Records, The Big Lebowski, Velvet Goldmine, Wag the Dog, Rules of Attraction, Moulin Rouge, The Graduate, Love Actually, Harold and Maude, I Heart Huckabees, Little Miss Sunshine, When Harry Met Sally, and a thousand awful romantic comedies I not-so-secretly spend long nights wide awake watching with my Uglydoll
Six Feet Under, House, Wonderfalls (Tragically Cancelled), Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Beyond Good & Evil, The Bell Jar, 1984, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tales of the City, Breakfast of Champions, Metamorphosis, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Girl Interrupted, Crime & Punishment, Lolita, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Everything is Illuminated, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Grand Inquisitor, A Child Called It, Howl, A Clockwork Orange, Kubla Khan (not actually a book, but suck it), Farenheit 451, Catcher In the Rye, and can I just say Gertrude Stein and be done with it?
Pedestals are dangerous.