• acid tongue. jenny lewis.
• right in the head. m.ward.
• clavicles. i am oak.
• pain in my heart. otis redding.
• my iron lung. radiohead.
• elbows. i am oak.
• cold hands. pants yell!
• sinning hands. iron & wine.
• uterus. dean wareham and britta phillips.

• go gallery hopping.
• visit museums, especially those with dinosaurs.
• spend hours at the aquarium
• adopt an octopus and keep it in a tank designed by cricket.
• cook an English vs. American meal...not like...ugh American. Good American.
• read some Heaney.
• watch our first movie to be determined at a later date, and based upon aesthetic beauty on a scale of 1-11.
• plant a tree.
• a kiss on the tip of your nose.
• a night walk in the cold.

• "You're so Hot."
• "Welcome to the 39th annual hunger games." (Then hums theme song to the Olymics).
• "I'll bring a load of me mum's tea towels."

• Waking next to Matthew Peter Fratson
• shark pillowcases
• a greyhound named Lars
• crisp weather
• scarves
• PG Tips and Earl Grey
• trips to see dinosaur bones and fine Art
• double cream
• the occasional irn bru
• sweater/jummper pockets weighted with a few pence
• walking in the city center
• red squirrels with ear tufts
• book reading on rainy days
• flower arranging
• planting a garden
• tea with the Fratson's
• riding the train
• daytripping to the seaside

• Andrew Bird
• Antony and the Johnsons
• Band of Horses
• Beck
• Belle & Sebastian
• Big Star
• Bob Dylan
• Beirut
• Ben Kweller
• Bill Callahan (a.k.a. Smog)
• Björk
• Bon Iver
• Cage the Elephant
• Caroline Herring
• Cat Power
• Cat Stevens (a.k.a. Yusef)
• CocoRosie
• Dan Auerbach
• David Bowie (a.k.a. Ziggy Stardust)
• Deer Tick
• Devendra Banhart

• Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe
• Juno and Paulie
• Nick Cave and PJ Harvey
• Barker Flett and Daisy Goodwill
• Bill Callahan and Joanna Newsom
• Valdamir and Vera Nabokov
• Rene and Georgia Magritte
• Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo
• David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini

• facial hair
• beard conditioning oil
• tin thermos
• sharpened axe
• rawhide gloves
• an assortment of plaid flannel
• insulated underwear
• maple syrup
• a mounted moose
• a woolen hat
• a cast iron skillet
• chicory coffee
• suspenders
• a strong chain
• a straight razor
• a single comb
• thick socks
• calluses with calluses
• a dog
• a cabin
• a stew pot

which make me feel like we are in fact doing this for the first time/ could be 18 rather than 22/23. but not younger.

• listen to Mazzy Star in his single bed.
• make and sleep in a blanket fort.
• run into the cold ocean, to our ankles. run back, shocked.
• pick up a crumpled love letter in Italian from a gutter in Beverly. translate it on google. grin at each other.
• nap by the Mississippi with a young dog.
• carve jack-0-lanterns.
• do rock/paper/scissors for big decisions.
• hold hands.

• “Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
• "He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.”
• "She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”
• "Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder."
• "The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."

• Chbosky, Stephen. Perks of Being a Wallflower, The.
• Foer, Jonathan Safran. Everything is Illuminated.
• Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
• Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
• Orwell, George. 1984.
• Orwell, George. Animal Farm.
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.

• Comostola laesaria. a moth.
• dollhouse furniture.
• mustard seeds.
• sparrow post letters.
• mites.
• hummingbird eggs.
• a newborn's fingernails.
• cat's teeth.

• Ruby
• Rose
• Scarlet
• Auburn
• Clementine
• Rusty
• Sable
• Sienna
• Amber
• Goldie
• Olive
• Hunter
• Jade
• Kelly
• Violet
• Crystal
• Grey
• Sterling
• Jett
• Ebony

• Scaphoids
• Lunates
• Triquetrals
• Pisiforms
• Trapeziums
• Trapezoids
• Capitates
• Hamates

• Cary Joji Fukunaga.
• Coen Brothers.
• Darren Aronofsky.
• David Lynch.
• F.W. Murnau.
• Ingmar Bergman.
• Jean Luc Godard.
• Jean Pierre Jeunet.
• Jim Henson.
• Martin Scorcese.
• Paddy Considine.
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
• Roman Polanski.
• Sofia Coppola.
• Spike Jonze.
• Stanley Kubrick.
• Tim Burton.
• Werner Herzog.
• Wes Anderson.
• Woody Allen.
• Yorgos Lanthimos.

• Chopin, Kate. The Selected Works of.
• Davis, Lydia. The Collected Short Stories of.
• July, Miranda. Nobody Belongs Here More Than You.