music, live music (rothbury, wheatland, the machine shop), laughter, books, coffee, road trips, good beer (bell's best brown ale, guiness), camping, poetry, hand drums, tights, games (trivial pursuit, monopoly, chess, euchre), mud puddles, equality, guitars, nature, the color orange, travel, coffee, things that smell good (mud, fresh cut grass, clarisse), beer, rain, libraries, family, faeries, the earth, singing, brains, trees, nice handwriting, walking, running, maps and atlases, watches, colors, cooking, oceans, rivers, lakes, ponds, bugs
Things that suck ass: George W. Bush, vehicles that beep when they back up, growing up, driving in the snow, the smell of banana peels, skin in winter, drains that won't drain, hangovers, jobs, Hummers, cheap beer, shopping.
Music
classic rock, folk rock, jam bands, metal, electronic, blues, bluegrass, fiddles, guitars, hand drums, flutes. Little bits of everything I didn't list.
Simon and Garfunkel, Sublime, Clutch, Primus, Bob Dylan, Led Zepplin, Neil Diamond, Patty Griffin, Seth Bernard and Daisy May, Modest Mouse, Dave Matthews Band, Tom Petty, the Foo Fighters, Otep, Dashboard Confessional, Weezer, Willy Nelson, Teagan and Sarah, the Doors, The Grateful Dead, the Talking Heads, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, AC/DC, the Beatles, the Tragically Hip, the White Stripes
Movies
The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, Peewee's Big Adventure, Zoolander, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, American Beauty, Bad Santa, Blow, Crash, Donnie Darko, Match Point, Momento, Dude Where's My Car, The Ref, Love Actually, I Heart Huckabees, Lilja 4-Ever, Clerks, The Princess Bride, An Affair to Remember, Little Miss Sunshine, everything Coen Brothers
Television
Whatever who I'm with is watching.
Books
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Song of Solomon and Beloved, both by Toni Morrison
Fall on Your Knees by Anne Marie MacDonald
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Resistance and The Weight of Water both by Anita Shreve
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Franny and Zooey and The Catcher in the Rye both by J.D. Salinger
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
About a Boy and A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
You Remind Me Of You by Eireann Corrigan
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Favorite authors-Toni Morrison, Edgar Allen Poe, Margaret Atwood, Anita Shreve, Elizabeth Berg, Chris Bohjalian, Amy Tan, David Sedaris, and Raymond Carver.
Checking in...it has been awhile! How was Wheatland?? I wish I could have been there this year! How are you....and how is everything else going for you??
Happy Halloween!
