lists
Things I Don't Understand
1. gaucho pants
2. why my car's gas cap has a key to it
3. most British literature, but particularly, anything before the Restoration
4. why, when written properly, my last name has an accent in it
5. spanish grammar
6. why I have such a hard time cooking edible rice
7. most forms of structure
8. life
9. death
10. michael jackson
11. most forms of math
12. why we even need math
13. how we define 'art'
14. parallel parking
15. backing a car out of an alley
16. science fiction
17. pointy shoes
18. football
19. my talent for losing things
20. reggaeton
21. why we can't have our cake, eat it, and not gain weight, too
22. why I can't have my very own time machine
23. quantum physics
24. when people speak chinese, or japanese, or...any other language I don't know, because I only know two.
25. why I'm dragging this list out
Books I Want, Not in Order:
1. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (hardcover)
2. Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion
3. Perrine's Story and Structure (edition with green/blue cover)
4. Tokyo: A Certain Style
5. Fruits (by Shoichi Aoki)
6. Guitars for Dummies
7. Some good cookbooks
8. Black Like Me
9. Norton's Anthology of World Masterpieces (fifth edition)
10. Sherman Alexie's "Old Shirts and New Skins"
11. M.L. Smoker's "Another Attempt at Rescue"
12. Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
13. Sylvia Plath's "Ariel"
14. "Woman Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros
15. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Right Now I Feel:
1. Full
2. Tired
3. Like I've read way too much information these past few days
4. Worried
5. Content
6. Like swallowing fire and walking on broken glass.
7. Just kidding.
8. Loved
9. Achy
10. Feelings, whoa whoa, such strong feelings.
11. Silly
Discoveries Within the Last Hour:
1. Sherman Alexie is a Libra
2. TS Eliot was a Libra
3. John Lennon was a Libra
4. I think this old heart's been stolen
5. No wonder
Favorite Songs, in English, and not in order:
1. Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
2. Deftones, "My Own Summer"
3. Jackson Browne, "Sky Blue and Black"
4. Jackson Browne, "Lives in the Balance"
5. Jackson Browne, "In the Shape of a Heart"
6. Jackson Browne, "The Naked Ride Home"
6. Saves the Day, "Nightingale"
7. Third Eye Blind, "The Background"
8. Third Eye Blind, "Motorcycle Drive By"
9. Fort Minor, "Where'd You Go?"
10. Linkin Park, "My December"
11. Robbie Williams, "Come Undone"
12. Fleetwood Mac, "Go Your Own Way"
13. Bird York, "In the Deep"
14. matchbox twenty, "Push"
15. matchbox twenty, "Hang"
16. Billy Joel, "Honesty"
17. Billy Joel, "Piano Man"
18. Staind, "Epiphany"
19. Unwritten Law, "Seein' Red"
20. Metallica, "The Unforgiven II"
21. U2, "With Or Without You"
(this is where I got tired of typing artist names)
22. "Imagine"
23. "Let It Be"
24. "Be Quiet and Drive"
25. "She"
26. "Whatsername"
27. "Basket Case"
28. "Macy's Day Parade"
29. "Just What I Needed"
30. "Daniel"
31. "No Woman No Cry"
32. "There is a Light (That Never Goes Out)"
33. The Ramones' cover of "I Don't Want To Grow Up" (And NO, it is not the Toys 'R' Us song)
34. "Every Time" (La Ley, not Britney Spears, and that's the final answer)
Favorite Songs in Languages Other than English
1. La Ley, "Animal"
2. La Ley, "Krazyworld"
3. Nek, "Llegaras"
4. Morbo, "Hoy"
5. El Canto Del Loco, "Puede Ser"
6. Mikel Erentxun, "Acrobatas"
7. Nek, "Estar Sin Ti No Se"
8. Juan Gabriel, "Asi Fue"
9. Yuridia, "Maldita Primavera"
10. Bryndis...yeah, I like pretty much any Bryndis
11. La Ley, "Fuera de Mi"
12. David Summers, "Diciembre"
13. Ricardo Arjona, "Jesus es Verbo, No Sustantivo"
14. anything Juan Gabriel, really
15. Shakira, "Ciega Sordomuda"
16. Shakira, "Moscas en la casa"
17. La Ley, "Mentira"
18. Franco De Vita, "Te Amo"
19. Jose Luis Perales, "Y Como es El?"
20. Mana, "Cuando Los Angeles Lloran"
21. Los Rabanes, "Tus Caprichos"
Movies that Never Get Old
1. Crash
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
4. Meet the Parents
5. Stepmom
6. Never Been Kissed
7. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (the old one)
8. Love Actually
9. Say Anything
10. Pretty in Pink
I am:
1. a force to be reckoned with
2. a lover AND a fighter
3. wearing jeans that are a little too big on me, because I've lost weight since the year began
4. not sure that cutting my hair was such a good idea
5. an untold story
The lyrics of the day are:
You're the color of the sky
Reflected in each store-front window pane
You're the whispering and the sighing
Of my tires in the rain
You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost
In everything I do
Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you
In the sunlight and the shadows
And the faces on the avenue
That's the way love is
1. gaucho pants
2. why my car's gas cap has a key to it
3. most British literature, but particularly, anything before the Restoration
4. why, when written properly, my last name has an accent in it
5. spanish grammar
6. why I have such a hard time cooking edible rice
7. most forms of structure
8. life
9. death
10. michael jackson
11. most forms of math
12. why we even need math
13. how we define 'art'
14. parallel parking
15. backing a car out of an alley
16. science fiction
17. pointy shoes
18. football
19. my talent for losing things
20. reggaeton
21. why we can't have our cake, eat it, and not gain weight, too
22. why I can't have my very own time machine
23. quantum physics
24. when people speak chinese, or japanese, or...any other language I don't know, because I only know two.
25. why I'm dragging this list out
Books I Want, Not in Order:
1. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (hardcover)
2. Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion
3. Perrine's Story and Structure (edition with green/blue cover)
4. Tokyo: A Certain Style
5. Fruits (by Shoichi Aoki)
6. Guitars for Dummies
7. Some good cookbooks
8. Black Like Me
9. Norton's Anthology of World Masterpieces (fifth edition)
10. Sherman Alexie's "Old Shirts and New Skins"
11. M.L. Smoker's "Another Attempt at Rescue"
12. Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
13. Sylvia Plath's "Ariel"
14. "Woman Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros
15. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Right Now I Feel:
1. Full
2. Tired
3. Like I've read way too much information these past few days
4. Worried
5. Content
6. Like swallowing fire and walking on broken glass.
7. Just kidding.
8. Loved
9. Achy
10. Feelings, whoa whoa, such strong feelings.
11. Silly
Discoveries Within the Last Hour:
1. Sherman Alexie is a Libra
2. TS Eliot was a Libra
3. John Lennon was a Libra
4. I think this old heart's been stolen
5. No wonder
Favorite Songs, in English, and not in order:
1. Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
2. Deftones, "My Own Summer"
3. Jackson Browne, "Sky Blue and Black"
4. Jackson Browne, "Lives in the Balance"
5. Jackson Browne, "In the Shape of a Heart"
6. Jackson Browne, "The Naked Ride Home"
6. Saves the Day, "Nightingale"
7. Third Eye Blind, "The Background"
8. Third Eye Blind, "Motorcycle Drive By"
9. Fort Minor, "Where'd You Go?"
10. Linkin Park, "My December"
11. Robbie Williams, "Come Undone"
12. Fleetwood Mac, "Go Your Own Way"
13. Bird York, "In the Deep"
14. matchbox twenty, "Push"
15. matchbox twenty, "Hang"
16. Billy Joel, "Honesty"
17. Billy Joel, "Piano Man"
18. Staind, "Epiphany"
19. Unwritten Law, "Seein' Red"
20. Metallica, "The Unforgiven II"
21. U2, "With Or Without You"
(this is where I got tired of typing artist names)
22. "Imagine"
23. "Let It Be"
24. "Be Quiet and Drive"
25. "She"
26. "Whatsername"
27. "Basket Case"
28. "Macy's Day Parade"
29. "Just What I Needed"
30. "Daniel"
31. "No Woman No Cry"
32. "There is a Light (That Never Goes Out)"
33. The Ramones' cover of "I Don't Want To Grow Up" (And NO, it is not the Toys 'R' Us song)
34. "Every Time" (La Ley, not Britney Spears, and that's the final answer)
Favorite Songs in Languages Other than English
1. La Ley, "Animal"
2. La Ley, "Krazyworld"
3. Nek, "Llegaras"
4. Morbo, "Hoy"
5. El Canto Del Loco, "Puede Ser"
6. Mikel Erentxun, "Acrobatas"
7. Nek, "Estar Sin Ti No Se"
8. Juan Gabriel, "Asi Fue"
9. Yuridia, "Maldita Primavera"
10. Bryndis...yeah, I like pretty much any Bryndis
11. La Ley, "Fuera de Mi"
12. David Summers, "Diciembre"
13. Ricardo Arjona, "Jesus es Verbo, No Sustantivo"
14. anything Juan Gabriel, really
15. Shakira, "Ciega Sordomuda"
16. Shakira, "Moscas en la casa"
17. La Ley, "Mentira"
18. Franco De Vita, "Te Amo"
19. Jose Luis Perales, "Y Como es El?"
20. Mana, "Cuando Los Angeles Lloran"
21. Los Rabanes, "Tus Caprichos"
Movies that Never Get Old
1. Crash
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
4. Meet the Parents
5. Stepmom
6. Never Been Kissed
7. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (the old one)
8. Love Actually
9. Say Anything
10. Pretty in Pink
I am:
1. a force to be reckoned with
2. a lover AND a fighter
3. wearing jeans that are a little too big on me, because I've lost weight since the year began
4. not sure that cutting my hair was such a good idea
5. an untold story
The lyrics of the day are:
You're the color of the sky
Reflected in each store-front window pane
You're the whispering and the sighing
Of my tires in the rain
You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost
In everything I do
Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you
In the sunlight and the shadows
And the faces on the avenue
That's the way love is