Favorites
Here are some of my favorite things. Looking at this list is like a snapshot of me!
Movies
- Fargo
- Raising Arizona
- Notting Hill
- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (all three Lord of the Ring movies, actually)
- Gone with the Wind
- The Matrix
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- The Way We Were
- The Godfather
- Blade Runner
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- West Side Story
- Pan’s Labryinth
Books
- A Little Life
- Inamorata
- Sentimental Journey
- Mai Tai One On
- Shutter Island
- Water for Elephants
- The Road
- Beautiful Ruins
- 11/22/63
- The Goldfinch
- Dark Places
- The Cuckoo’s Calling
- Room
- The Lord of the Rings
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- As I Lay Dying
- The Shining
- The Stand
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Turtle Moon
- The Prince of Tides
- The Bean Trees
- Dune
- The Shadow of the Wind
- Peachtree Road
- The Thorn Birds
- Gone with the Wind
- The Great Gatsby
- The Witching Hour
- Queen of the Damned
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Atonement
Horror/Fantasy/Thriller
- It
- The Dead Zone
- Watchers
- Dark Rivers of the Heart
- Tell No One
- The Poet
- Heart Shaped Box
- A Simple Plan
- His Dark Materials trilogy
- The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
- Dune
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- The Passage
- The Witch and Vampire series by Anne Rice
- The Harry Potter books
Songs
- Dancing in the Dark
- Glory Days
- Music of the Night
- Crazy for You
- Only the Good Die Young
- Candle in the Wind
- Imagine
Foods
- Freshly caught lobster or dungeness crab, with drawn butter
- Chateaubriand with bearnaise sauce
- Pina coladas
- My husband’s chicken piccata
- Homemade pasta alla sorrentina in Italy
- Pistachio gelato
Places
- Sunset on the Arno river in Florence
- Sitting in San Marco Square at night, listening to music
- People watching in Rome
- Walking along the Seine in springtime
- the beach at Biarritz
- Driving Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula
- Sunset in Africa, watching shadowy, graceful giraffes walk across the savannah
- A cooking class in Tuscany, preferably near Cortona
- Walking through Florence, Italy–well, really just doing anything in Florence
- The beach in Kauai
- The slopes of Northern Idaho
- The Seattle waterfront
- The San Juan Islands
- Southeastern Alaska
- Costa Rica
- New York City
- San Francisco
- London
- Edinburgh
- Nashville
- The Hood Canal in Washington state
- Portofino, Italy
- Eze, France
Restaurants
- Canlis and Wild Ginger in Seattle
- Elio’s in New York
- Mastro’s in Beverly Hills
- Lighthouse Bistro in Kilauea
- Biba’s in Sacramento
Musicals
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Rent
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- West Side Story
- My Fair Lady
Television shows
- Breaking Bad
- Orphan Black
- Sons of Anarchy
- Orange is the New Black
- Lost
- M*A*S*H
- Seinfeld
- The Sopranos
- Deadwood
- Carnivale
- Survivor
- Project Runway
- Twin Peaks
- Prison Break
- Game of Thrones
Time of Day
- Sunset (preferably at the Princeville Hotel, overlooking Bali Hai)
Cocktails
- Ginger Margarita
- Tuaca Sidecar