flowers

• indian pipe, or ghost plant (monotropa uniflora)
• pinesap, dutchman's pipe, or yellow bird's nest (monotropa hypopitys)
• oriental poppy (papaver orientale)
• iceland poppy (papaver nudicaule)
• wis ter ia (")
• sea ho ll y (eryngium)
• columbine (aquilegia)
• love-in-a-mist { nigella damascena}
• dande lion (taraxacum)
• cor nfl ower, or bachelor's button (centaurea cyanus)
• thistle (scottish, milk, bull) (various genera)
• nas...

• gardening - proper procedures, terms, plant characteristics, common problems, and so on
• grafting, arborsculpture
• calligraphy
• candle- and soap-making
• more paper-making
• bonsai, maybe?
• more breadmaking
• learn to draw human beings properly
• more knitting and crocheting
• clothes-making
• hill-homes and tree-houses
• seed bombing, guerilla gardening
• explore this silly old town of mine, the plantlife and waterways especial...

• nasturtium pesto
• sugared violets
• homemade bread of different sorts
• papaya salad (tam mak houng)
• that one jel i especially like, darkish greenish
• and the one that's red and yellow
• sticky rice
• that somewhat sour business with the vegetables in a bit of liquid, greenish (som phak kad)
• elderflower cordial
• falafel and hummus
• something involving lychees
• that soup with the cubes (kalang fun)
• stuffed nasturtiums
• frume...

• weeping willow (salix)
• corkscrew willow (salix matsudana 'tortuosa')
• pussy willow (salix discolor)
• japanese cherry (prunus)
• japanese maple (acer palmatum)
• sycamore (platanus)
• river birch (betula nigra)
• white oak (quercus)
• sassafras (")
• redbud (cercis)
• ginkgo (")
• fringe tree (chionanthus)
• giant sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum)
• yew (taxus)
• magnolia (for climbing!) (")
• tulip trees, both pink and yellow (liriodend...

• freshly baked bread
• not quite thoroughly baked cookies
• indian food
• japanese food
• the addition of cilantro
• strawberry shortcake
• new reeds
• orange marmalade
• falafel
• stuffed grape leaves
• mango suckers
• tabasco sauce
• pad thai
• chinese fried rice and lo mein
• nearly anything with tomato, fresh basil, & fresh mozzarella (namely, margherita pizza!)
• unadulterated jalapeños
• cabbage
• tres leches cake
• everything bagels
• sticky rice...

• magnifying glass
• binoculars
• microscope
• telescope
• decent new digital camera
• japanese language book
• oil paints of pleasant colours
• podstakannik
• matryoshka
• tea sets
• aftaba set
• samovar

living

• asheville
• hoboken, by new york city
• london
• uk countryside
• san francisco
• laos, eventually, to work for an NGO
• sweden
• new england

visiting

• sweden
• japan
• laos
• iceland
• london
• countryside of the united kingdom
• coast of the united kingdom
• france
• åland
• thailand - in particular, to see the naga fireballs
• india
• morocco
• italy
• croatia, just for the national dress
• canada
• imladris (rivendell)
• lothlórien
• hobbiton
• hogwarts

• deer
• elephant
• quail
• owl
• squirrel (grey & red)
• goat
• dog
• cat
• short-beaked echidna
• pangolin
• dormouse
• ant
• beluga whale
• manatee
• cecropia caterpillar
• sugar glider
• giraffe
• chipmunk
• panda
• bat
• jerboa
• dik dik
• hedgehog
• badger
• skunk
• snail
• shrimp
• frog
• cow
• chicken
• pig
• pheasant
• crow, raven
• magpie
• white peacock
• fox
• chickadee
• downy woodpecker
• tufted titmouse
• turtle
• triceratops
• apatosaurus
• cloud leopard
• genet
• lynx
• tanuki
• seahorse
• leafy sea dragon
• cuttlefish
• loch ...

• wisteria
• brownies baking
• cookies baking
• coffee
• honeysuckle
• play-doh
• chai
• simmering glögg
• jasmine tea
• basil
• cilantro
• wood fires

• the animals i live with
• tea, teacups
• the color yellow
• old things
• trees, flowers, leaves
• bakeries and freshly baked bread
• mornings, and being up for them
• friendly bugs
• remembering my childhood
• spring
• christmastime
• queers
• connection, compassion, empathy
• deer, elephants, squirrels, quails
• interspecies friendships and adoptions
• heliotropism & phototropism
• mountains
• folklore
• open windows with wind rustling the leaves ou...

• thimble, thicket
• quim & quinny
• polliwog
• thrum, plum, & glum
• besmirch, besotted
• tumble
• twill & quill
• gloaming
• haberdashery
• hajimemashite (はじめまして - "nice to meet you," said only the first time - japanese)
• rigamarole
• wimple
• persnickety
• bungalow
• bumbershoot
• snip, snippet, & snoop
• happily
• l'après-midi ("afternoon" - french)
• alltalltílæ ("everything is all right" - icelandic)
• ríðum ("ride" - icelandic)
• poj...

• stephen colbert
• sorsha (willow)
• saffron monsoon (absolutely fabulous)
• tilda swinton
• emily mo rtimer
• diana trent (waiting for god)
• steve carell, actually, i think?
• paul smith (maxïmo park)
• cate blanchett
• clémence poésy
• bae du- na
• chloë sevigny
• isabelle huppert
• judi dench
• jenny shimizu
• natalie portman
• rachel weisz
• james spader, younger
• fox mulder
• claire danes
• hugh laurie
• miranda hobbes
• keira knightley
• patrick stewart
• dav...

now these, i couldn't live without

• sigur rós : popplagið (untitled 8)
• j. s. bach : toccata and fugue in d minor
• the coventry carol
• howard blake : walking in the air (from 'the snowman')
• mariah carey : all i want for christmas is you

and these, i love only slightly less

• 50 hertz : army of djur (björk cover)
• animal collective : grass
• animal collective : the purple bottle
• animal collective : cuckoo cuckoo
• an...

(not necessarily in order, because i'm terrible with that)

blur

• popscene
• 1992
• advert
• theme from an imaginary film
• far out (beagle 2 version)
• sunday sunday
• hanging over
• trouble in the message centre
• coffee & tv
• m.o.r.

sigur rós

• popplagið (eight)
• sæglópur
• olsen olsen
• sé lest
• e-bow (six)
• fyrsta (two)
• glósóli
• gong
• svo hljótt
• njósnavélin (four)

radiohead

• fog
• in limbo
• optimistic
• street spirit
• pyramid song
• idioteque
• 2+2=5
• al...

• animal collective : cuckoo cuckoo
• animal collective : grass
• animal collective : the purple bottle
• bach : toccata and fugue in d minor
• bob hund : allseende ögat
• björk : bachelorette
• blur : popscene
• blur : m.o.r.
• clor : stuck in a tight spot
• clor : love + pain
• deerhoof : gigadance
• mariah carey : all i want for christmas is you
• of montreal : forecast fascist future
• of montreal : so begins our alabee
• patrick wolf...

• swedish
• icelandic
• lao
• japanese
• french
• arabic
• welsh
• hindi
• kannada
• spanish; for practical purposes

• glen raven, the phantom town
• harlequin ichthyosis
• anglerfish
• viperfish
• pulsating underwater bioluminescence
• the prospect of lengthy car rides, hmm
• iggy pop
• people...
• getting bitten by a brown recluse spider
• contracting gangrene
• my body one day deciding to grow a keloid scar
• necrosis
• that unduly loud crash of thunder i bolted awake to one april morning; it still haunts me to this day
• riding next to those huge t...

• le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain
• love actually
• spirited away