wholly fanciful list, ignoring how much less fun many of these would have been for a woman, and the other myriad horrors of oppression throughout history, and instead imagining i could be right there in the heat of it.

• the lost generation and their cafe hangouts and salons on the left bank of paris. more than anything in the world, i wish i could have experienced this.
• the beat generation
• any of the premier runs of any of shakespeare's plays at the globe.
• watching josephine baker perform in la creole. or at all.
• working for mi6 during the cold war.
• if there was really a king arthur, then camelot.
• with the rolling stones in morocco.
• paris may '68.
• the premiere of waiting for godot at the ...

• tom waits
• tori amos
• rufus wainwright
• laura marling
• ani difranco
• bob dylan
• leonard cohen
• dessa
• kate bush
• janelle monae
• patti smith
• amy winehouse
• morrissey
• seth lakeman
• ryan adams
• m.i.a.
• jay-z
• amanda palmer
• astronautalis
• c.r. avery
• dan mangan

• Roberto Bolano - Nazi Literature In the Americas - started in 2010
• Susan Sontag - Regarding the Pain of Others - started in 2010
• Susan Cooper - Over Sea, Under Stone
• Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising
• Susan Cooper - Greenwitch
• Susan Cooper - The Grey King
• Susan Cooper - Silver On the Tree
• Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan: Back On the Street
• Scott Westerfield - Behemoth
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of the Four
• Bill Willingham - Fables
• Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
• Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
• Patti Smith - Just Kids
• Terence Rattigan - After the Dance
• Mark Gatiss - The Devil In Amber
• Sarah Kane - 4.48 psychosis

• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Zelda Fitzgerald
• Ernest Hemingway
• pretty much all of the lost generation in one way or another
• John Keats
• Oscar Wilde
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Percy Shelley
• Dorothy Wilde
• Josephine Baker
• Merlin
• Robin Hood
• Louise Brooks
• Harry Houdini
• Twm Sion Cati
• Anne Boleyn
• Robert Burns
• George Gordon, Lord Byron
• William Carlos Williams
• Eva Peron

• jj abrams & doug dorst - s.
• lizabeth zindel - a girl, a ghost, and the hollywood hills
• emily horner - a love story starring my dead best friend
• alex irvine - pacific rim, the official novelization
• william shakespeare - hamlet (for class)

• tea - any, but especially black; hot, strong, milky & sweet.
• butternut squash soup
• chipotle chicken corn soup
• creamy tomato soup
• any soup, really
• fresh-baked anything, but especially banana bread, pumpkin, apple, or carrot muffins, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, bread
• greek yoghurt with honey & walnuts
• most yoghurt
• hot toddies
• thick beef & root vegetable stew with homemade biscuits
• hot milky chai
• well-made cappuccinos
• sea salt dark chocolate
• grapes
• chinese honey buns
• vegetable spring rolls

• collarbones
• shoulders
• intelligence (but not pedantism)
• stubble
• just-woke-up sleepiness
• sense of self
• personal style
• clumsiness
• tousled hair
• passion
• willing to cuddle/physically affectionate
• eccentricities
• kindness
• slight awkwardness
• slow smiles
• playfulness (physical & personal)
• height
• hipbones
• heartbeats

• earl grey
• masala chai
• irish breakfast
• jasmine green
• teavana mrs earl grey
• teavana earl grey creme
• mint tisanes
• oolong
• puka vanilla chai
• genmaicha (toasted rice)
• whittards vanilla black
• puka detox
• teavana cloud 9 rooibos
• matcha
• teavana samurai chai
• numi dry desert lime
• m&s breakfast blend
• spiced orange tisanes
• assam
• apple&cinnamon tisanes
• yorkshire

• hal's tiny moment of tenderness at his father's 'death'bed (the globe)
• the minstrels (the globe)
• the entirety of <i>tender napalm</i>, really. i walked out of it shaky for having held my breath so long. (southwark playhouse)
• lee's small monologue (apollo)
• ginger's hitching breath before he spits on rooster (apollo)
• rooster's summons (apollo)
• any time any actor worth his salt has said "let us sit upon the ground..."
• the moment i realized who a character in the bff's play was based on.
• "stark raving sane"
• the moment ros&guil realize they've been sent to their death
• midsummer night's dream outdoors in cornwall
• the creature's birth in danny boyle's fra...

• radiohead
• the beatles
• pulp
• the indelicates
• gogol bordello
• the national
• the pogues
• the xx
• the clash
• tv on the radio
• doomtree
• gorillaz
• los campesinos!
• arcade fire
• the decemberists
• mumford & sons
• the mountain goats
• yeah yeah yeahs
• okkervil river
• belle & sebastian
• the cure

have

• mad tea party on my back

definitely want

• picasso's dove of peace
• "born to run" (for my dad)
• something for the sea (waves/ocean water/?)

pretty sure i want

• "the weight of the world is love"
• compass rose
• salome
• van gogh partial sleeve/or one in his style