• dinah washington
• grace slick
• annie clark
• joanna newsom
• billie holiday
• linda ronstadt
• gillian welch
• emmylou harris
• beyonce
• robyn

• H. R. Pufnstuf (which everyone thinks I made up)
• Strawberry Shortcake
• Sesame Street
• 3-2-1 Contact
• Reading Rainbow
• The Adventures of Gummi Bears
• Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers

• a working laptop
• book embosser
• reversible tights
• tights of all colors
• makeup brushes
• earrings
• shoes

(who is spoiled? i am spoiled.)

• Harper's
• Saveur
• Martha Stewart Living
• W
• Real Simple (i am so old)
• Wired
• Marie Claire
• Bon Appetit

• "The River" by Flannery O'Connor
• "Rebecca" by Donald Barthelme
• "Death in the Woods" by Sherwood Anderson
• "Terrific Mother" by Lorrie Moore

• Maple Oreo
• Tiramisu
• Pistachio Lemon (omg, so good)
  • Pistachio Jasmine (also good)
• Thai Iced Tea
• Almond Chocolate
• Strawberry Balsamic (really good)
• Salty Chocolate (yes!)
• Peanut Butter Molasses (so rich, so good)

• okonomiyaki
• homemade pizza - dough from scratch
• bibimbap
• kimchi
• pickled mustard greens
• pickled carrots
• fried yucca, fried plantains (like victor's)
• homemade bread
  • marble rye!
  • foccacia
• preserved lemons
• daifuku
• marshmallows
• tamales
• onion rings

• canned pumpkin
• box of quinoa
• tikka masala spice mix
• rice sticks
• soba noodles
• green lentils
• wheat germ
• almond meal
• vegan Worcestershire sauce
• grapeseed oil
• whole wheat lasagna noodles

• Devendra Banhart
• Annie Clark
• young Grace Slick
• David Bowie
• Kevin Barnes
• Joni Mitchell
• young Bob Dylan
• Fyfe Dangerfield
• 1968 Cat Stevens
• Zach Condon
• the younger Avett brother (with the banjo)
• young Pete Townshend

• Alaska
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Hawaii
• Maine
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• West Virginia

• aestheticization
• seminal
• flesh
• moist (doesn't everyone hate this word?)
• pulsate
• valises
• clot
• heterogeneous
• slit

• smoking!
• eating too many poptarts
• drinking too much coke zero (switch to tea!)
• wastefully leaving the water running (while brushing teeth/washing face)
• not exercising
• driving to the store when i could walk/bike
• hitting my snooze button over and over
• wasting time on facebook and the internet in general

• Waltz With Bashir
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Milk
• Hunger
• Rachel Getting Married
• The Wrestler
• Gomorrah
• The Class

• a few ridiculous country songs by brad paisley
• the killers (it started with "human" and then a few more songs crept in)
• "beast and the harlot" by avenged sevenfold and "wayward son" by kansas (both songs that i like because of guitar hero)
• dar williams (a folk singer used to live with us so they remind me of being fourteen)
• "single ladies" by beyonce
• that ludacris song about "if i take one more drink..."
• disneymania
• pink
• flogging molly

• playing the guitar
• leading trad climbs
• needle felting
• using a sewing machine
• swimming in (or at least not being petrified of) the ocean
• embroidery
• driving more competently
• photography skills

• "If Kisses Won't Hold the Man You Love" - Rasputina
• "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" - Bob Dylan
• "Up in Our Bedroom After the War" - Stars
• "Woke Up New" - The Mountain Goats
• "Fuck Forever" - Babyshambles
• "Nothing to You" - Two Gallants
• "No Children" - The Mountain Goats
• "She's a Rejecter" - of Montreal
• "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" - Stars

• Roland Barthes
• J.P. Sartre
• Wittgenstein
• Nietzsche
• Walter Benjamin
• Stanley Cavell
• Fredric Jameson
• Heidegger
• Derrida
• Jacques Lacan
• Veena Das
• Bachelard
• Adorno

• Mad Tea Party (#1 in my heart)
• Matterhorn (left hand side = win)
• Astro Blasters (level 6 space ranger, bitches!)
• Space Mountain
• Indiana Jones Adventure
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Astro Orbiter
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

+Bonus: California Adventure

• Silly Symphony Swings!
• Tower of Terror
• Toy Story Midway Mania
• California Screamin'

• "Oh Yoko" - John Lennon
• "Grass" - Animal Collective
• "Made Up Love Song #43" - Guillemots
• "Your Lips Are Red" - St. Vincent
• "All I Want" - Joni Mitchell
• "Parentheses" - The Blow
• "When My Boy Walks Down the Street" - The Magnetic Fields
• "Three Wishes" - The Pierces
• "2 Atoms in a Molecule" - Noah and the Whale

• Louise Bourgeois
• Chris Burden
• Richard Serra
• Kara Walker
• Sara Sze
• Cindy Sherman
• Jenny Holzer
• Damien Hirst (with caveats)
• Richard Prince
• Joseph Cornell
• Bernd and Hilla Becher
• Joseph Beuys (i suppose)
• Tim Hawkinson

• paper globes (valentine ones for bean?)
• papier mache animals
• little paper trees
• house-shaped shelves covered with papers
• felt fortune cookies
• painting/glittering that pear?
• felt headbands
• feather headbands
• prince katamari doll

• friendship as belief in pain of others. one pain in two bodies (i cannot feel your pain or pretend to know it, but i believe in it and it hurts me too).
• romantic relationships as tied to intimacy with body (both ownership and vulnerability).
• "interest" as curiosity and the desire to understand
• also, "interest" as exploration/exploitation. your body is a wilderness that i map and then own.
• familial ties as blood-bound. fraternity as friendship metaphor due to common substance.

• eggplant
• broccoli
• cauliflower
• cucumber
• asparagus
• sweet potato
• romaine
• red onion
• green onion
• mushrooms (fungus)

• "jolene" - dolly parton
• "tangle up in blue" - bob dylan
• "you're gonna make me lonesome when you go" - bob dylan
• "cinnamon girl" - neil young
• "new york" - yeah yeah yeahs

• La Jetee
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• 2001: Space Odyssey
• Moon
• Star Wars [IV, V, VI]
• The Matrix
• Alien/s
• Blade Runner
• Solaris
  
• District 9
• Tron
• Wall-E
• Children of Men
• Inception

• Frenchmen St.
• the WWII museum
• thrift stores?
• ghost tour? http://bit.ly/dpqILn
• comestibles
  • pralines (aunt sally's)
  • beignets (cafe du monde)
  • abita beer (amber, purple haze, root)
  • Green Goddess

• The Road
• Precious
• Bad Lieutenant
• Inglourious Basterds
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Avatar (only on imax 3D)
• The Informant!
• Where the Wild Things Are
• The Princess and the Frog

• "We'll Meet Again" at end of Dr. Strangelove
• that song they dance to in Bande A Part
• La Seraghina dancing in 8 1/2
• all Xavier Cugat in Wong Kar Wai films

• feline (cat)
• canine (dog)
• bovine (cow)
• taurine (bull)
• ovine (sheep)
• porcine (pig)
• leonine (lion)
• asinine (ass!)
• piscine (fish)
• ursine (bear)
• aquiline (hawk?)
• equine (horse)
• gamine (kid?)
• cervine (deer)
• columbine (dove)
• elephantine (elephant)
• serpentine (snake)
• vulpine (fox)
• lupine (wolf)
• murine (mouse)
• myrmecine (ant)

• Lake Atitlan
  • San Pedro
  • Hotel Aaculaax
• Chichicastenango
  • famous market
  • Church of Santo Thomás
• Solola market (sunday)
• Livingston
• Tikal
• comestibles
  • Zacapa Centenario rum
  • pupusa de loroco
• Semuc Champey
• Antigua
  • climb volcano

from the amazing hannah [http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/200...]. some of these are veganizable (haggis, really?), so if i've eaten a non-vegan version, it doesn't count.

• Natto
• Green Smoothie
• Tofu Scramble
• Haggis
• Mangosteen
• Creme brulee
• Fondue
• Marmite/Vegemite
• Borscht
• Baba ghanoush
• Nachos
• Authentic soba noodles
• PB&J sandwich
• Aloo gobi
• Taco from a street cart
• Boba Tea
• Black truffle
• Fruit wine made from something other than...

• LACMA
• Hammer
• Getty
• Broad Contemporary Art Museum
• Norton Simon (free for students)
• MOCA (closed? closing?)

• huckleberry (since they resemble my favorite fruit, the blueberry, but have a cuter name!)
• white sapote - sweet with tones of vanilla, banana and peaches?!
• black sapote - chocolate pudding fruit?!
• ross sapote
• caimito
• abiu - gelatinous flesh some liken to creme caramel
• jostaberry
• cherimoya
• jujube
• capulin cherry - tastes like cotton candy?!
• sapodilla
• soursop (i've had it in drinks, but not the whole fruit)
• pitombe
• the miracle berry that makes sour things taste sweet

• I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
• Godspeed You Black Emperor
• Saturday Looks Good to Me
• I'm From Barcelona
• Pretty Girls Make Graves
• Oh No! Oh My!
• Be Your Own Pet
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Antarctica Takes It!
• The Robot Ate Me
• Does It Offend You, Yeah?
• Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

• SALLY!!
  • she is awesome.
  • she is clean.
  • she is sober.
• easier to bike/walk to trader joe's/other shops.
• a balcony!
  • growing shade plants
  • putting up little strings of lights
  • a little table and chairs
• better bathroom set-up (despite mildew)
  • two sinks
  • separate toilet room
• huge front closet (could be used as tiny library?)
• cheaper rent
  • electricity is included

• pamplemousse
• parapluie
• escalier
• desolee
• boeuf
• chagrin
• terrible
• formidable
• fièvre
• jouissance
• élévation

• Joshua Tree!!
• Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve (late March - mid April; call the poppy hotline!)
• Pirate's Cove
• San Diego Zoo
• San Pedro (Marine Mammal Care Center)
• Mission San Luis Rey
• Citrus State Park
• Tanaka Farm Tours (strawberry, watermelon, pumpkin)
• Nixon Birthplace and Library
• Mission San Juan Capistrano
• Upper Newport Bay
• Great Park Balloon Ride Irvine
• Helena Modjeska Historic House and Gardens
• Fullerton Arboretum
• Channel Islands
• Tahquitz/Suicide Rocks/Idyllwild
• Little Caliente hot springs

• david bowie (ziggy stardust era)
• john lennon (during early beatlesmania)
• sue denim (of robots in disguise)
• karen o
• jay-z (HOVA)
• lil' wayne
• anyone in animal collective
• morrissey
• t pain

• bright pink walls and pink begonia border (our house used to be a bed & breakfast and each room was flower/color-themed)
• a white metal daybed that i slept in with my dog and often one or two cats
• large white dresser. the drawers had very sharp corners and one day while pretending to be a dog, i ran my knee into one of those corners (see: list of scars)
• closet with white sliding doors. i spent a lot of time using the closet as some sort of fort or hiding spot.
• a very large jar of pennies that had belonged to my grandfather. many of them were wheat ears and i got in very big trouble when i was six for sending my friends home with handfuls and handfuls of pennies.
• around thirty stuffed animals with names and distinct personalities and social relationships. they sent mail to each other...

• ZooBorns
• CuteOverload
• Softies Central
• I Can Has Cheezburger?
• Listography

• 8 1/2
• Yi Yi
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Wizard of Oz
• In the Mood for Love
• The Godfather [+ part two]
• Dr. Strangelove
• Vertigo
• Ichi the Killer
• Les Enfants du Paradis
• Instituta Benjamenta
• Bande à Part
• Persona
• Rashomon
• Pather Panchali
• Bonnie and Clyde
• The Mirror
• The Saddest Music in the World
• To Catch a Thief
• Kal Ho Naa Ho
• JSA

• black heels
• gold flats
• black vest
• more tights, particularly dark jewel tones
• more big rings
• dangly earrings
• belts that work
• more scarves
• boots
• a clutch

• Canon 20D SLR (i miss you, cam'ron)
• more microns (never have enough .005s)
• a cellphone that works
• working headlight for car
• more pretty paper
• a set of high-thread count sheets
• a plane ticket to somewhere new
• a working ipod car thingum
• working speakers for computer

• Hunter (age 5, first cat, solid black)
• Pepe Le Pew (age 6, transient, white & black)
• Isabel (age 6-18, mother of nations, stray tortie)
• myriad Isabel-produced kittens, all found homes.
• Tiger (age 7-13, Isabel's son, a bit funny in the head, grey tabby)
• Caramel (age 7-21, Isabel's son, quite fat, marmalade tabby)
• Dickens (age 13-22, wild little thing, grey tabby)
• Shambles (age 24-25, beautiful but insane and ultimately a bad idea, lynx point)

• Sherrie Levine
• Matthew Barney
• William de Kooning
• Piero Manzoni
• Yves Klein
• Joseph Beuys
• Salvador Dali
• Mark Ryden

• Deadwood
• The Wire
• Battlestar Galactica
• Six Feet Under
• True Blood
• Carnivale

• Loki (car)
• Apple (laptop; it's not a Mac, ha)
• Ruby (guitar)
• Cam'ron (camera)
• Toshi (other laptop)
• Leonides (bicycle)
• Casimir (ipod)
• Widowmaker (plant)
• Pippin (plant)
• Weepy (plant)
• Brixton (carabiner)

• Pau Gasol
• Monte Ellis
• Kevin Garnett
• Steven Jackson
• Baron Davis
• Steve Nash
• Carmelo Anthony
• Allen Iverson
• OJ Mayo

• the Venice canals
• Travel Town
• Schindler House
• Inn of the Seventh Ray
• Walt Disney Concert Hall
• Norton Simon museum
• Watts Tower
• Spaceland
• Bradbury building

• poppy (both corn and california)
• ranunculus
• tulip
• hydrangea
• hibiscus
• lotus
• dahlia
• peony
• anemone (white/black)

• Hapuna Beach, Hawai'i
• Santa Barbara, CA
• Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
• El Matador, CA
• Playa del Carmen, Mexico
• Ko Tarutao, Thailand
• Ocraoke Island, North Carolina
• Crete, Greece

• caramel apple - me
• cotton candy - smark
• chocolate-covered banana - george
• pickle on a stick - ryan
• mochi - kerou
• flower lollipop - ross flowers
• rocket pop - gautham
• push pop - erin
• blow pop - andrea
• olive on cocktail sword - patrick

• jonas
• isolde
• audrey
• eliot
• stella
• shoshana
• wystan
• nicholas

• rainer maria rilke
• w.h. auden
• james richardson
• john milton
• adrienne rich
• john berryman
• frank o'hara
• wallace stevens
• vergil
• james wright
• theodor roethke
• charles simic
• paul celan
• hart crane
• jorie graham

• Shojin(downtown)
• Flore (silverlake)
• Naturali Jamaican Restaurant (mid-city)
• Sante La Brea (weho?)
• Pure Luck (wilshire center)
• Hugo's Resturant (weho)
• Green Truck (it moves!)
• Vegan Glory (weho)
• A Taste of Life (h-wood)
• Vegan Express (hollywood)
• Vegan Plate
• Real Food Daily
• Truly Vegan (h-wood)
• Green Leaves (los feliz)

things that i now like that i used to dislike

• grocery stores
• mushrooms
• rap music
• watching basketball
• plain tofu
• cardigans
• rings
• saul bellow
• baking
• drinking tea
• high heels
• joni mitchell

• the third policeman - flann o'brien
• the new york trilogy - paul auster
• the impossibly - laird hunt
• foucault's pendulum - umberto eco
• dictionary of the khazars - milorad pavic
• the crying of lot 49 - thomas pynchon
• house of leaves - mark danielewski
• the raw shark texts - steven hall
• the wind-up bird chronicle - murakami

• telephone pictionary!!! (best game ever)
• charades
• is it?/it is
• guesstures
• does breaking open a pinata count?
• all sorts of treasure hunts/scavenger hunts
• "i never"
• mafia
• psychiatrist

• young thai coconuts (by the case!)
• baby bok choy
• thai chiles
• persimmons (when in season)
• daikon
• pickled mustard green
• canned pickled cucumbers
• mock duck
• vegetarian hoisin sauce
• mori-nu tofu
• mochi snacks (taro! green tea!)

• call faraway loved ones-- mom/aaron/gautham/bean/andrea (fair)
• floss (good)
• take b-12 supplement (fair)
• ride bicycle (awful)
• wear sunscreen (poor)
• do some art (fair)
• learn something new (fair)
• eat >45g of protein (good)
• do dishes (good)
• eat at home (fair-good)

• BitterSweet
• Fatfree Vegan Kitchen
• VeganYumYum
• The Vegan Foodie
• eat'n veg'n
• Urban Vegan
• vegalicious
• Vegan Planet
• Vegan Eats & Treats

• seven eight nine!
• nacho cheese!
• boo-bees
• because the punch line is too long.
• do you smell carrots?
• put a little boogie in it
• just hang around, i'll go on ahead.
• a carrot
• fo' drizzle
• no tomatoes
• a happy pit bull

• autochthonic
• obviate
• ampersand
• halcyon
• palimpsest
• hither
• prelapsarian
• obsolescence
• elucidate
• preterition
• obscure
• eschatological
• warble
• triptych
• shambles
• mirage
• palisades
• aspersion
• quotidian
• baroque
• kleptocracy

• the poetics of reverie - bachelard
• the dalkey archive - flann o'brien
• the best of american comics - ed. lynda barry
• neoliberalism - david harvey
• the heart is a lonely hunter - carson mccullers
• the political unconscious - fredric jameson
• paradise - toni morrison

• rollerskating
• ice skating
• ballroom dancing
• yelling out of car windows to get someone's attention
• remaining oriented
• driving well
• whistling tunefully
• playing any instruments
• swimming well (i can mostly not-drown)
• running
• playing basketball
• playing most sports, really
• drawing well from memory
• remembering phone numbers

• sunset over sunrise
• mustard over ketchup
• tea over coffee
• coke zero over diet coke
• west coast over east coast
• pen over pencil
• heels over flats
• dogs over cats
• waffles over pancakes
• basketball over football
• dresses over shirt/pants
• lipstick over lip gloss
• silver over gold
• walk over run
• the smiths over the cure
• the who over the rolling stones
• the beatles over elvis
• paperback over hardcover
• serif over sans serif
• sandstone over granite
• broccoli over cauliflower

• blueberry
• fig
• persimmon
• mangosteen
• cantaloupe
• mango
• lychee
• watermelon
• kiwi
• cherry

• "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
• "Both Hands" - the only ani difranco song that i know
• "Iowa" - Dar Williams
• christmas songs, particularly "We Three Kings," "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" and "Angels We Have Heard On High"
• "A Mighty Fortress is Our God"
• disney songs, particularly "I Want to Be Where the People Are."

(of course, i still find most of these things adorable and compelling.)

• owls
• cupcakes
• cats
• deer
• bicycles
• teacups
• monsters
• robots
• elephants

• poptarts (unfrosted are vegan, and i particularly like strawberry).
• kettle chips (esp. the salt and black pepper ones)
• candy cane joe-joes.
• cool mint oreos (a subpar non-holiday-season substitute for the previous list item).
• grape licorice.
• nutter butter bites.
• green & black dark chocolate bars (esp. cherry chocolate and maya gold)
• granola (seriously, this is junk food)
• trail mix (especially since i buy the kind that is heavy on dark chocolate chips and dried fruit)

• Katamari Damacy (ps2)
• We <3 Katamari (ps2)
• Katamari Forever (ps3) [sensing a trend?]
• Yoshi's Island (snez)
• Tetris Attack (snez)
• Super Mario Galaxy (wii)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (wii)
• Raving Rabbids (wii)
• Taiko Drummer (ps2)
• Warioware (wii)
• Pokemonch (ds) [ask me about my team]

• a plastic folder of half-drawn and finished 'sticky stuff' comics
• several dry-erase markers, various colors
• a couple of lipsticks
• a lucky brass pig from ireland
• my vinyl whale wallet
• two of the brown cardboard moleskines for drawing
• couple of microns (.005, .01, .02, .08, brush)
• a few coke bottlecaps
• Jameson's 'The Political Unconscious'
• Cormac McCarthy's 'All the Pretty Horses'
• my little green quattro notebook with class notes
• my ipod in its homemade felt case
• some student papers that need grading
• a half-finished bottle of San Pellegrino
• my broke-ass phone

• Edward Said
• Jacques Derrida
• Judith Butler
• Ludwig Wittgenstein