"I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside!"
~Rumi
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Books and people who read them, learning Korean, Kimchi (the food and my kitty!), running (on and off), and keeping in touch with my friends all over the world!
Currently addicted or re-addicted to: Counting Crows (This Desert Life); John Lennon (Lennon Legend); Patty Griffin (1000 Kisses); Radiohead (In Rainbows and The Bends); Red Hot Chili Peppers (All of it); Javier Navarette (Pan's Labyrinth Soundtrack); Elizabethtown Soundtrack; DMB (Everything, particularly rediscovering my high school angst in Crash and the Lillywhite Sessions thanks to Mel); Bob Dylan (all of him); Kanye West (Graduation); Neutral Milk Hotel (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea); Regina Spektor; The Traveling Wilburys (thank you Ben!); etc. Yes, many many addictions, and there's more where they came from!
Love Letter (Japanese), Cinema Paradiso, Totoro, Old Boy (Korean), Stranger than Fiction, Josie, the Tiger, & the Fish (Japanese), The Producers, Boondock Saints, I am Sam (entire sountrack of Beatles covers, come on!), The Princess Bride, No Direction Home (Scorcese documentary on Bob Dylan. Incredible.), Emerald Forest, Garden State, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Benny and Joon,The Grinch (classic and Jim Carrey.) This is kind of ridiculous. I mean,does this really make me more likable, or am I limiting myself?
Guilty pleasure: Moonlight! I don't care if there are vampires! It's SO GOOD Not at all guilty addiction: Boston Legal Can relate almost any incident to: Friends. Best show of all time: The Office
The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia; The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver; American Pastoral by Philip Roth; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers; Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; A People's History of the US by Howard Zinn; Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor; Light in August by Faulkner; Everything by Kurt Vonnegut; Wit by Margaret Edson; The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby; White Guilt by Shelby Steele (not a novel); A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (genius); Read anything Rumi you can get your hands on. Read John Donne, Billy Collins, Anne Sexton, Laure-Ann Bosselaar Read anything Carmen Acevedo Butcher!
I am constantly astounded to find myself surrounded by amazing people who somehow put up with me for outstanding amounts of conversation and mandatory music-listening. They're all my heroes.