three of my fava favs doing what they do:
dancing on furniture.
SUSHI
jeopardy!
crosswords.
green tea. olive oil.
reading.
wigs.
our cat, frances.
dogs.
savion glover.
drummers who go at it hard.
weird coincidences.
laughing. being skeptical.
you being smart enough to prove it to me.
learning anything new.
making art, viewing art, living art.
not having to pay the meter.
fashion tv, fashion mags, ruben toledo's fashion drawings.
sea otters.
coffee.
pink floyd on the radio.
driving through l.a. at sunset with a dirty windshield.
dreadlocks.
garlic.
playing the part.
the art institute.
binoculars.
talking dirty out of context.
liberal propaganda.
the dude.
npr.
vegetarian sandwiches at little cafes.
thich nhat hahn.
my friends becoming aunts and uncles but not mothers and fathers.
not driving whenever i can avoid it.
black licorice, dark chocolate.
rearranging.
listening to people have sex.
having sex.
not having to convince you.
moving on.
I'd like to meet:
I'd Like to Meet:
anyone who dares try to be this funny:
..
mike rowe
new people who are fun, weird, wild, intelligent, and prefer laughter to seriousness.
please, oh god, if the only book you've read in the last ten years is the davinci code, find someone else, my friend.
but for pete's sake, be literate and interesting!
clarissa so she can explain it all for me.
savion glover.
someone who understands this: "I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Music:
michael mazochi.
bob dylan.
wilco.
ryan adams.
guns'n'roses.
emmylou harris.
ella fitzgerald, billie holiday, sarah vaughn.
miles davis.
al green.
janis joplin.
james brown.
bjork, beck, beatles.
otis redding.
lucinda williams.
johnny cash.
solomon burke.
neil young and crosby,stills,and nash.
outkast.
dolly parton.
sandra lauren scholz.
the blind boys of alabama.
patti smith.
pink floyd.
willie nelson.
marvin gaye.
john coltrane.
bebel and astrud gilberto.
jesca hoop.
the grateful dead.
led zeppelin.
marley, jimmy cliff.
nina simone.
p.j. harvey
tom waits.
creedence.
r.l. burnside.
turbo negro.
silver jews.
loretta lynn.
the two disc yo-yo ma plays bach.
the mornings.
slow learners.
clap your hands say yeah.
the gray kid.
and i'm fanatical about one song by bright eyes, the rest of his shit can go to hell.
Movies:
gandhi.
day for night
casablanca.
breakfast at tiffany's.
casino.
empire records, reality bites.
punch drunk love.
amelie.
lost in translation.
godfather IandII.
goodfellas.
delicatessen, city of the lost children.
princess and the warrior.
harold and maude.
bonnie and clyde.
reservoir dogs.
swingers, clerks.
the big lebowski.
annie hall.
the revolution will not be televised.
fog of war.
roman holiday.
anything with jimmy stewart.
rushmore.
march of the penguins.
and i'm crazy about those kill bill movies.
breaking the waves - a movie to wrap your heart around your stomach.
Television:
jeopardy!
seinfeld.
sex and the city.
curb your enthusiasm.
also, the surgery channel and any kind of sex documentary.
fashion file.
behind the velvet ropes.
flight of the conchords.
Books:
among my favorites:
catcher in the rye.
the great gatsby.
plays by oscar wilde.
the bell jar.
a prayer for owen meany.
anything langston hughes wrote.
siddhartha.
huck finn.
the iliad.
the dictionary.
white teeth.
me talk pretty one day.
the house on mango street.
shel silverstein.
e.e. cummings.
dorothy parker.
neil simon.
moliere.
harry potter.
the old man and the sea.
life of pi.
children's books - especially goodnight moon.
i'm in love with vonnegut.
norwegian wood.
Heroes:
people who do things to make the world better to live in rather than fucking it up.
this means gandhi.
this means people who recycle.
this means mandela.
this means the treepeople and homeless shelters.
this means people who act out of kindness when it isn't necessary or convenient.
hopefully it means you.
patty jovel.
