i like:

going out every once and a while ... staying in and playing board games ... watching the food network ... red stripe ... wash and fold laundry ... my headphones ... madonna circa 1992 ... skylines ... fridays ... flip flops ... finding money i didn't know i had ... flying into new york at night ... flying into chicago at night ... people who are hot shit but don't feel the need to act like they're hot shit ... a full gas tank ... cindy sherman ... atms that give out ten dollar bills ... 15 dollar chinatown bus trips to boston ... the margarita machine at sweet and vicious ... movie theater popcorn ... perfectly worn-in thrift store t-shirts ... nalgene water bottles ... new batteries ... being surprised ... freshly washed sheets ... phoenix's jukebox ... what seems like eighty percent of the city still awake at four a.m. any night of the week ... an unempty voicemail box ... an unempty bed.

i'm a poet.

(no ... really ... i am)

people watching. road trips. sideways glances in foward facing situations.

people are always saying "don't i know you?" or "you look really familiar" ... but no ... you don't ... and no ... i'm really not. though ... i might have an imposter or six running around the city.

books:

angels in america. grimm's fairy tales. glory goes and gets some. the house of mirth. salinger's nine stories. the tipping point. to the light house. shirley jackson's stuff. a home at the end of the world. the perks of being a wallflower. the man who ate everything. a complicated kindness. smilla's sense of snow. susan minot. anne-e wood. sarah kane. wuthering heights. american psycho (all ellis). lamb. story of o. handmaids tale. middlesex. poets: sharon olds. adrienne rich. marie howe. margaret atwood. dean young. daphne gottlieb. nick flynn. mark doty. allen ginsberg. nin andrews. sylvia plath. catullus. heather mchugh. d.a. powell. david trinidad. robert lowell. charles simic. anne sexton. richard siken. even frost and dickinson in bite-size doses.

movies:

muriels wedding. dancer in the dark. donnie darko. the peanut butter solution. legend of billie jean. tarnation. clock watchers. drop dead gorgeous. escape from / return to witch mountain. battle royale. party girl. clueless. clue. romey & michelles highschool reunion. teen witch. storytelling (all solondz). truth or dare. medusa: dare to be truthful. don't tell mom the babysitters dead. dogville. welcome to dollhouse. spirited away. show girls. irreversible. kill bill.

music:

tori amos. kate bush. the smiths. cocteau twins. bjork. sigur ros. aimee mann. ani difranco. charlotte martin. frou frou. imogen heap. rilo kiley. tegan&sara. m.i.a. everything but the girl. garbage. daft punk. lisa germano. radiohead. emily j. wood. kylie minogue. antony & the johnsons. postal service. yeah yeah yeahs. mum. depeche mode. liz phair. emm gryner. fiona apple. peaches. pj harvey. texas. cat power. air. regina spektor. phoenix. mirah. marianne faithfull. magnetic fields. lamb. courtney love. hole. erasure. deb talan. david usher. chicane. the cardigans. jonatha brooke. kelly clarkson (the pat benetar of the new millenium). le tigre. arcade fire. poe. nine inch nails. sparklehorse. the cure. ladytron. the futureheads. edith frost.

tv:

my so-called life. golden girls. sex and the city. eighties cartoons (jem. thundercats. g.i. joe. transformers.) boiling points. kathy griffin. project runway. top model and other seemingly one dimensional trash.

food:

there aren't many foods i won't eat. almost none actually. unless it's like duck tongue ... or tripe. and even then ... i'll try it. also: randomly: i like most foods better cold than hot.

you're low maintenance. low drama. utterly worthwhile.