spring, eating avocados and drinking on the stoop again, reading outside until i'm sunburned, clear dark skies, adventure, movie montages, cultivating a "colorful" lexicon, sequins and subtle small things, loving and hating public radio, art, architecture, design, knowing the latin name, craft, esoteric knowledge, campfires, short skirts, my education, high contrast stitching, smocking, cinematic moments, taking polaroids, the Eames, sending mail via the postal service, graph paper and mechanical pencils, embroidery and stitchery, old wallpaper, nice packaging, the whitman, anything in miniature, making lists and sorting things, baking cakes, maps, medical facts, food writing read aloud, beautiful books, riding my bike
a partner in crime
django reinhardt, getz/gliberto, buddy holly, magnetic fields, the beach boys, written by hal david/burt bacharach, kanda, the beatles, the kinks, the zombies, the monkees, bridgette bardot, serge gainsbourg, love, the supremes, the jackson 5, the unicorns, os mutantes, the clientele, sparks, jolie holland, bob dylan, neil diamond, neil young...etc...
clash of the titans, superbad, better off dead, amelie, singin' in the rain, elf, the very long engagement, auntie mame, down with love, the eames films, kiki's delivery service, peau d'ane, the waitress, knocked up, pan's labyrinth, rushmore, royal tenenbaums, real genius etc ...
freaks and geeks, The Office
murakami, we tell ourselves stories in order to live, Don DeLillo, the brother's karamozov, make a world, Dubus short stories, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, middlesex, a hero with a thousand faces, spook and stiff (mary roach), the bell jar, the namesake, waiting, his dark materials (read it even if it seems TOTALLY lame), the hidden dimension, kon tiki (Thor Heyerdahl), difficult loves, anna karenina, Gravesend, of course Anne of Green Gables etc...
Edwin Land, charles and rae eames, buckminster fuller...