I can’t remember, first of all, where I found this – and I also can’t remember if I’ve done it or not. Oh well. This blog sucks. But it’s fun.<\/p>\n
Four things I f*cking hate<\/b>:<\/p>\n
1. Coconut\/applesauce (right, Tom?)<\/p>\n
2. Self-righteous rigid idealogues, moral scolds, etc. It’s always just a matter of time before people like that fall (and when those people fall? They CRASH), and I cackle with GLEE when they are inevitably brought down by their own appetites, and ultimately their own hypocrisy. Serves ’em right. People like that bring out my meanest streak and I glory in someone else’s humiliation. You know – like when a member of the God squad is caught with his pants down in a dark alley, smoking a joint with 2 illegal-immigrant Mexican hookers? AWESOME.<\/p>\n
3. Traveling on a Friday night before a holiday – by train. There’s this vibe in Penn Station – controlled panic – so many people – they don’t announce the gates until the last minute and then there’s a stampede – Every time I do it, I swear: “this is the LAST TIME”. It’s just an AWFUL vibe.<\/p>\n
4. Being LATE! Can’t stand it.<\/p>\n
Four things I would do if I were a millionaire: <\/b><\/p>\n
1. Buy a house\/apartment – something cute and cozy.
\n2. Travel
\n3. Travel
\n4. Travel<\/p>\n
Four things I would change if I could: <\/b>
\n1. I would make it so that civilians could cheaply go up into outer space. Like – you could just book a rocket ride out to the space station and it would be no big deal. I would SO take advantage of such a program. On an almost weekly basis.<\/p>\n
2. I would make it so that time travel is a reality. I know there are many complications with such a project, but I don’t care. I want to go back in time.<\/p>\n
3. I would bring back the old elegance of air travel.<\/p>\n
4. I’d wave a magic wand and make all of my friends who suffer from some disease completely well. Abracadabra.<\/p>\n
Four songs I can’t help but sing along to: <\/b>
\n1. Summer Lovin’ (from Grease, of course)
\n2. Magic – (from Xanadu, of course)
\n3. Somebody to Love – Queen
\n4. I love rock and roll – Joan Jett<\/p>\n
Four movies I would be a different person without: <\/b><\/p>\n
1. Goofy, I know – but I have to say The Legend of Bagger Vance. It’s a dumb movie – but it affected me so intensely at the time that I had one of the only panic attacks I’ve ever had in my life directly following it. Weeping, literally sobbing – my heart burning out of my chest in a fiery mesh – a CRAZY night. I was out of my mind. Made a lot of changes in my life based on that one film alone.<\/p>\n
2. Bless the Beasts and the Children – I saw it when I was WAY too young and it crushed me. Devastated me. I was 12, maybe … but … the ending … it was a TV movie, I think – I have no memory of any of it – but my entire worldview was pretty much rocked after seeing that movie. It was one of those soul-growth moments – and it feckin’ HURT. So so sad, very tough lessons. Like: sometimes things just DON’T. WORK. OUT.<\/p>\n
3. Dog Day Afternoon. I covered that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 4. Candleshoe. Starring Jodie Foster as a youngun. I’ve gotta put this on here because it is, I believe, the first movie I ever saw. Like – in a theatre, etc. The only thing I remember about it is a scene with kids sliding across a slippery floor.<\/p>\n Four of my Favorite Things: <\/b> Four Reasons I Can’t Stand the Idea of Being A Teenager Again: <\/b> Four Songs I’m Putting On Rotate Lately<\/b><\/p>\n 1. Too Much Love will Kill you – Queen Four Things That I Can’t Drive Without<\/b> Four Things That Make Me Smile<\/b><\/p>\n 1. The sound of babies hysterically laughing Four Things That I Watched and Loved<\/b> 1. Cheers Four Things I Would Do If I Won a Lottery<\/b> Four of My Most Prominent Heritages<\/b> Four Things I Routinely Lie About<\/b><\/p>\n I ain’t givin’ away all my secrets now. I lie, but why would I admit that? Sheesh.<\/p>\n Four Things I Wish More People Knew About Me <\/b><\/p>\n 1. That I love Huey Lewis, and always will I can’t remember, first of all, where I found this – and I also can’t remember if I’ve done it or not. Oh well. This blog sucks. But it’s fun. Four things I f*cking hate: 1. Coconut\/applesauce (right, Tom?) 2. … Continue reading
\n1. The sound of rain outside my window
\n2. Ocean waves
\n3. Talking with Cashel about whatever it is that he’s thinking about, or up to, etc.
\n4. A nice cold beer after a long hot day<\/p>\n
\n1. Sadie Hawkins dances
\n2. Having to go out with boys who are teenagers as well.
\n3. In my case – I can’t stand the thought of being so self-conscious again, so worried about belonging, fitting in
\n4. I can’t stand the idea of being a teenager because back then – the whole contact-lens thing was SUCH an ordeal. You had to put saline tablets into solution – let it dissolve – and then you had to plug the container in – to….what … BAKE the bacteria off the lenses? I LOVE disposable lenses, and how easy it all is now.<\/p>\n
\n2. Stars and Planets – Liz Phair (if that’s what “selling out” sounds like – then give me more of it! I love Liz Phair and I’ve loved her since her Exile to Guyville days – and the whole “wah wah she sold out” thing is so predictable and so tiresome. I think Stars and Planets is one of her best songs.)
\n3. Gone – Kelly Clarkson
\n4. 21 Things – Alanis Morrisette<\/p>\n
\n1. First of all, drive?
\n2. Okay, let me pretend I have a car.
\n3. Uhm – music.
\n4. Large iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts<\/p>\n
\n2. Being with my friends out in Beth’s backyard, hanging out, being together, kids splashing in the pool … heaven
\n3. The memory of my brother’s imitation of what it would be like if Helen Keller went camping. I am laughing right now.
\n4. Any kind of Real World\/Road Rules marathon.<\/p>\n
\nTV series is how I’m taking it:<\/p>\n
\n2. Flame Trees of Thika
\n3. Sesame Street
\n4. Project Runway<\/p>\n
\n1. Give a ton of it away to friends, family, etc.
\n2. Travel to the Caucasus, or to Central Asia
\n3. Buy a car (so I could drive around drinking iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts)
\n4. Move<\/p>\n
\n1. Irish
\n2. Irish
\n3. Catholic
\n4. Red Sox<\/p>\n
\n2. That I continue to be baffled at the premature cancellation of Square Pegs<\/i>
\n3. That Madeleine L’Engle is one of my idols
\n4. I was so addicted to General Hospital in high school that I CRIED when my swimming lesson conflicted with the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"