- starlings - elbow
- fast car - tracy chapman
- norwegian wood - the beatles
- blue skies - noah & the whale
- the garden that you planted - sea wolf
- bear - the antlers
- used to be - beach house
- marching bands of manhattan - death cab for cutie
- laundry room - the avett brothers
- calgary - bon iver
jul 14 2013 ∞
jul 14 2013 +
- she's all that
- country strong
- never been kissed
- grease
- she's the man
- mean girls
- a cinderella story
- the proposal
- 27 dresses
- made of honor
- something borrowed
- legally blonde
- pretty woman
- sweet home alabama
- date night
- 500 days of summer
- the perfect man
- crazy stupid love
- easy A
- ps i love you
- wimbledon
aug 5 2012 ∞
jun 15 2013 +
- eat at Asador Donostiarra in Madrid
- See a Madrid game at the Bernabeu
- go to Las Fallas in Valencia
- Go to the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona (as in The Sun Also Rises)
- drive on the autobahn
- see a sunrise over the atlantic and a sunset over the pacific (on the same day)
- visit every continent
- photograph an endangered species
- drink chuhai (japanese booze)
- go caving
- go ZORBing in new zealand
- master the ukulele
- ride a hot air balloon
- learn to pole dance
- travel in a submarine
- learn how to be zen like a tibetan monk
- learn to ride a unicycle
- visit kuroshio sea (2nd-largest aquarium tank)
sep 12 2010 ∞
dec 31 2013 +
sep 12 2010 ∞
jan 17 2013 +
- telephone lines
- streetlights
- empty windows
- lighthouses
- edward hopper's paintings
- cracked walls
may 19 2011 ∞
may 22 2011 +
sep 12 2010 ∞
jan 26 2011 +
- knick-knacks collected from travels
- a large fireplace
- fresh flowers
- collection of rugs piled on top of each other
- homemade furniture/decorations
- candles
- floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with paperbacks
- kitchen like julia child's with the outlines of pots and pans
- desert colors - rose, sand
- sunflowers in front of a raised wrap-around porch
- glass and wood paneling, open-air
- PIKA house at MIT - hammocks, tree houses, roofdecks, tire swings...
- eagle's nest from the fox island house - little alcove on the roof, with a spiraling wooden staircase leading up
- Cluny House natural design, energy efficient (solar)...
mar 5 2011 ∞
jul 21 2013 +
oct 17 2010 ∞
feb 14 2011 +
- 1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk.
- 2. Write a letter to yourself in the future.
- 3. Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday.
- 4. Draw your dinner.
- 5. Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal.
- 6. Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street.
- 7. Expose yourself to a new artist, (go to a gallery, or in a book.) Write about what moves you about it.
- 8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them.
- 9. Spend a day drawing only red things.
- 10. Draw your bike.
sep 13 2010 ∞
oct 1 2010 +
sep 12 2010 ∞
mar 1 2012 +
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- Walden Pond, MA
- Roman Forum at sunset
- Mountainsides of Rumney in autumn
- Crater Lake, OR
- Lombard Street, San Francisco, CA
- top of Yosemite Falls, CA
- Fox Island, Chesapeake Bay
- Banff, Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Venice, Italy
- Portland, Oregon
- Daintree Rainforest, Australia
- Cape Cod, MA
- Sydney Harbor on New Year's
- the Blue Mountains
- Mason's Swim Hole in Cairns
- Great Barrier Reef
- Seoul, Korea
- New York City
- Burano, Italy
- Vancouver, BC
- Medinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE
nov 14 2012 ∞
sep 17 2013 +
- A – Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- B - Bossypants by Tina Fey
- C – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
- D – The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
- E – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- F – For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- G – Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- H – Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- I – Italy by Rick Steves
- J – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- K – Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- L – The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- M - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- N – Blue Nights by Joan Didion
may 24 2011 ∞
feb 18 2013 +
- "When the going gets tough / Tough - get going." - Randy Newman, "Memo to my Son"
- "no, you were the reason / I kept my light on late into the night / turning all those pages / searching for you everywhere.” - Billy Collins
- "It takes two to lie. One to lie, and one to listen." - Homer Simpson
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St Augustine
- "Not all who wander are lost." - JRR Tolkien
- "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
- “Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in th...
oct 9 2010 ∞
jun 25 2013 +
sep 12 2010 ∞
jan 22 2012 +
- New Girl
- Sherlock
- Vampire Diaries
- How I Met Your Mother
- Psych
- White Collar
- Dexter
- Merlin
- Supernatural
- Hawaii 5-0
- Glee
- Bones
- Criminal Minds
- NCIS
- The Big Bang Theory
- Modern Family
- Arrested Development
- Misfits
- The Walking Dead
- Suits
sep 26 2010 ∞
jan 17 2013 +
GIRL
- roman (girl)
- ryan (girl)
- audrey (girl)
- maya (girl)
- emile (boy/girl)
- gatsby (girl)
BOY
- sebastian (boy)
- noah (boy)
- ian (boy)
- jameson (boy)
- spencer (boy)
- hunter (boy)
- aaron (boy)
- elliot (boy)
- jonah (boy)
- oscar (boy)
- tristan (boy)
- dylan (boy)
sep 12 2010 ∞
nov 14 2012 +
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- "It was as though I could have heard even wind and church bells if only I had been more attentive." - Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900
- "The two preceding years had been spent in Europe with a private tutor, who persuaded him that Harvard was the thing; it would “open doors,” it would be a tremendous tonic, it would give him innumerable self-sacrificing and devoted friends. So he went to Harvard—there was no other logical thing to be done with him." - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
- “To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.” - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- "It was all, moreover, in the name of "love"; everyone involved placed a magical faith in th efficacy of the very word. The...
jul 14 2013 ∞
apr 22 2014 +
- qdoba
- boloco
- bgood
- spice
- tory row
- abp
- starbucks
- pinkberry
- berryline
- crema
- felipe's
- yenching
- hong kong
- burdicks
- russell house
- upstairs on the square
- panera
- flat patties
- bartleys
- jp licks
- lizzy's
apr 8 2012 ∞
sep 17 2013 +
- an interest in histories
- how to speak elvish
- development of artistic skills by sketching the characters and the props
- desire to go to new zealand
- the impetus to start websites and learn coding
- listening material in the car
- love of reading
- magazine clippings, transcribing all the poetry from the books
- studying the appendixes to perfect pronunciation
- holding a grudge against harry potter for ripping off so many things from lord of the rings
jul 8 2011 ∞
jul 8 2011 +
- Clowns
- Belly buttons
- Puppets
- Little girls with long dark hair holding knives
- Suburban sprawl
- Apathy
- Littering
- Bullying
- Instant gratification culture
- Victim-blaming
- Homophobia
- People who use the words 'gay' and 'retarded' as pejoratives
- Bottled water
- trash cans filled with half-full bottles of water.
- Overly moral people who are preachy
- criticizing others for their choices in c...
may 25 2011 ∞
may 10 2013 +
- made a video in dubai
- stood on top of the tallest building in the world
- smoked shishah while in dubai
- rode a camel
- got a henna tattoo
- got drunk in the middle east while underage
- jumped off the weeks bridge
- california road trip
- stood inside a redwood tree in the redwood forests of the pacific northwest
- hiked yosemite falls
- seen cirque du soleil
- bonfire on the beach
- kayaking in San Diego Bay
- walked across the border to mexico
- been to the canadian rockies
- been to disneyland
- watched the sunrise over the atlantic ocean and the sunset over the pacific ocean ...
may 19 2011 ∞
sep 17 2013 +
- traveling and foreign countries
- sweater weather
- my moleskine
- prismacolors and oil paints
- tea - green, jasmine, vanilla, mint, chai (chai lattes)
- road trips
- street artists and murals
- lord of the rings
- granola, greek yogurt, fresh fruit, pesto, arugula, brie, basil, gruyere
- baking flavors - carrot, cinnamon, pumpkin spice, peppermint, dark chocolate, peanut butter
- music - jonsi, death cab, iron&wine, beach house, the smiths, bon iver, avett brothers, taylor swift
- literature - foer, marquez, hemingway, murakami
- poetry - richard siken, ee cummings, pablo neruda, charles bukowski
apr 23 2011 ∞
sep 17 2013 +
- Food taste tester
- Nail polish namer
- Street fashion photographer
- Documentary host
- Storm chaser
- Circus hand
- set designer in a musical/play
- Professional painter
- LOTR set/character designer
- Figure skater
- intern on a large political campaign
- bartender
- living alone in a cabin in the woods
- opening and closing a small local library, like kafka
may 22 2011 ∞
jan 9 2012 +
feb 6 2011 ∞
nov 8 2011 +
- waiting for forever
- one day
- never let me go
- shes out of my league
- you again
- the fall
- moneyball
- drive
- into the wild
- green lantern
- the ghost writer
- revolutionary road
- lost in translation
- i love you phillip morris
- diving bell and the butterfly
- grave of the fireflies
- in a better world
- two weeks notice
- i am love
- lord of the rings bakshi's rototype version
- invictus
sep 12 2010 ∞
may 10 2013 +
nov 23 2010 ∞
nov 8 2011 +
sep 24 2010 ∞
nov 8 2011 +
- mashed potatoes
- fresh bread and jam
- dried cranberries
- granola
- greek yogurt
- animal crackers
- fruits - mangoes, strawberries, kiwis, oranges, honey crisp apples, blackberries, watermelon, cantaloupe, blueberries, cherries, grapefruit
- my grandma's cooking - rice, tofu, dumplings
- vegetable soup
- sunny side up eggs
- pesto
- spinach and arugula salad
- teas - green, vanilla, jasmine, chai, fruits
- mint chocolate chip ice cream
- bruschetta
- salmon
may 19 2011 ∞
may 10 2013 +
sep 12 2010 ∞
sep 14 2010 +
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