• "I had the itch to fly, and I flew." - Blind Pilot, in "One Red Thread"
• "I want to walk this Earth like it is mine." - Gogol Bordello in "Tribal Connections"
• "I need to travel; I've had this itching in my shoes since I was just a little kid." - Kimya Dawson in "?"

• Margarita
• Blue Hawaiian
• Sex on the Beach
• Red-Headed Slut
• Grateful Dead
• Sangria (?)
• Pom-tini
• Sand in Your Shorts
• Brass Monkey
• SoCo & Lime

• a designated nap time
• when the biggest worry was making it home before the streetlights came on
• some of the hardest decisions being which cereal to pick at the grocery store
• when a day was deemed "bad" because of something simple like getting your name on the board
• and a good day was when you didn't
• life's biggest tragedies were broken toys and scraped knees
• not having to worry where you would be living next year or what your life would hold, because you would live with your parents and next year you would be one grade higher
• when years were measured around school, because that is what your life revolved around
• so you could actually get excited about "summer break"

• standing in the bay window at my grandparent's house and singing, which would end with me bowing and saying "thank you, thank you, thank you"
• when my dad worked at the movie theater, I would sometimes go in with him and eventually go to the concession stand and ask for "pa-corn pease"
• asking the old man, who was an amputee, "what happened to your yegs" (he had lost them in the war), which I returned with "okay...can I ride in your basket" (the one on the front of his scooter cart)
• telling a lady "you too fat"

from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall ISBN 1-84403-417-8

2000s

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
• Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson
• The Sea by John Banville
• The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• The Master by Colm Tóibín
• Vanishing Point by David Markson
• The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
• Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• The Colour by Rose Tremain

• "I am nostalgic for conversations that I had yesterday. I begin reminiscing events before they ever occur. I am reminiscing this right now." -- Kicking and Screaming
• "What I used to able to pass off as a bad summer could now potentially turn into a bad life." -- Kicking and Screaming
• "You know what's scary about commitment? Your life becomes real. Not a plan, not what you had hoped for. Real." -- Passengers

• Muppet Babies
• The Muppet Show
• X-Men, The Animated Series
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Jem
• Sailor Moon
• Ren & Stimpy
• Snick
• Round House
• Hey Dude!
• Are You Afraid of the Dark?

• leather
• metal
• clean laundry
• lighter fluid (in small dose, like a whiff)
• gun cleaning
• citrus smells
• sandalwood
• the woods
• the rain
• the beach
• "I Love Love"
• "Dirty English"
• kitty fur, especially Tigger's
• good coffee
• crayons
• oil pastels
• clay
• the studio
• Nolan
• cookies baking

• Love is a Mixtape , Rob Sheffield
• Fahrenheit 452 , Ray Bradbury
• The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy , Nick Bantock
• The Demon Ororon , Hakase Mizuki
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower , Stephen Chbosky
• Oh, The Places You'll Go , Dr. Seuss
• Stardust , Neil Gaiman
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret , Brian Selznick
• Evernight , Claudia Gray

and the list will forever grow...

• No Country For Old Men
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• City of Ember - (The movie was based on the first of the series, which I have read)
• The Time Traveler's Wife -

29 April 2009

• sleep
• wake
• "running late"
• feed the kitties
• get ready/dressed
• give Tig medicine: one unit insulin
• talk to Mom..."running later"
  • ball room dancing
  • fun and promises
• leave
• stop at gas station; buy RockStar: 2.19$
• drive to Starbucks
  • good songs in the car:
    • "One Red Thread," Blind Pilot
    • "One of Those Days," Josh Radin
    • "Chasing the Daylight," Philip LaRue
• meet Nolan; hugs ensue

• visit another culture
• "party" on the roof
• stay up all night with friends just because you can
• spend a day enjoying a good book and a comfy blanket
• play/dance in the rain
• enjoy looking at the stars
• watch an eclipse
• and a meteor shower
• go to a movie's midnight showing
• have a "wiggle party"
• drive a good distance just to see someone, just because
• go to a concert
• run with a sparkler in each hand
• stick your arm out the car window, so you can feel like you are flying
• have a picnic
• read books for fun
• listen to music loudly, so that it can fe...

• Push , 06Feb-
• Knowing , 20Mar-
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine , 01May-
• The Brothers Bloom , 15May-
• Terminator Salvation , 21May
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian , 22May-
• Up , 29May
• Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen 26Jun
• Cheri , 25Jun
• Public Enemies , 03Jul-
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , 17Jul
• 500 Days of Summer , 17Jul-
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra , 07Aug
• Time Traveler's Wife , 14Aug
• Post-Grad , 21Aug
• Shanghai , 04Sept
• Pandorum , 04Sept
• Inglourious Basterds -
• 9 (Nine) , 09Sept-
• Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs , 18Sept-