- Sony 7.2 Mega Pixel 3X Optical Zoom camera: I take my digital camera with me everywhere.
- My custom-designed yacht: It is very fast, and it's made of a material that absorbs light in different ways. Sometimes it's purple. Sometimes it's green.
- Emile Galle vases: Mine are mostly from the beginning of the last century, but I've stopped collecting because the prices got so high.
- Patek Philippe watches: They are the best in the world.
- Black suede cowboy boots and jeans: My favorite way to dress.
- Ferraris: I have a Testarossa, a Maranello and a Daytona.
- Ingmar Bergman movies: They didn't cost so much to make and they had something to say.
- Roses: My favorite flowers. I like daisies too.
- The film "2046": It's a Chinese movie. So chic. The women are so elegant.
- [the Ferraris line is repeated. Nice copy-editing, Trib.!]
- Beyonce: She is a romantic rocker.
- Sharpie markers: I love their bold, beautiful lines and I love to sketch while I'm thinking.
- Canon PowerShot A80 4.0 Megapixel 3x Optical/3.6x Digital/11x Combined Zoom camera: It was sitting on the kitchen table, about 4 feet away from me, while I read this article. I use it probably 5 times every week. It is never "put away"--it doesn't have an "away" in which to be "put".
- [Hmm. What can I compare to a custom-designed yacht that changes color depending on the way that light that hits it?!] Friends: I have friends. Can that pompous asshole who 'can't live without' a color-changing fucking yacht say that?!
- Tea-pot collection, including the dancing cows and the glandularly-challenged frog, which always reminds me of Item #2, above.
- Coach Basic black purse: My one idiotically expensive indulgence, made more so by the idiotically expensive wallet [not exactly like the one linked but it seems to be off the website currently] that I "picked up" when I realized that I didn't have a black wallet after I bought the purse.
- Levis 504s and either white or black blouses: I can't seem to keep any color in my wardrobe anymore--except for the occasional blue or gray--but I don't mind. It seems that I'm developing, at long last, a personal style.
- Hondas & Buicks: It seems that most of the people I love own either one or the other, or both.
- Hal Hartley movies: Trust is my favorite, but I've loved them all. He has a way of revealing human frailties without celebrating them, and treating characters with affection without condescension or intrusion.
- Tulips: the darker, the better. Irises are good, too. Anything bulbous.
- The film Shiri: It's a Korean action film. So stylishly violent, redolent with imagery of disconnection, reconciliation, and disconnection. The main character, a woman, is elegant...and deadly. My favorite literal and figurative element of the movie is the pair of kissing gourami owned by the lead couple.
- I think I get a free one here. The [first] soundtrack from Grey's Anatomy: I'm not a big fan of the idea of soundtracks from television, and anytime there is a commercially-available soundtrack, the music is often so overly intrusive as to obliterate any interest that I may have had in the show itself. However, Grey's Anatomy is one of those exceptions to almost every rule...and I love this disc. It doesn't help that the music--and the show--remind me very much of someone I used to know, in the most respectfully melancholy way. "It's love that leaves and breaks the seal of always thinking you would be / Real, happy and healthy, strong and calm...."
- Dean Martin: There will never be another singer with that kind of voice, and presence, and class.
- Uniball pens: particularly the Signo 207 (retractable) or Vision Elite (capped, which won't leak in flight). I hand-write a lot, and these are the best pens that I've ever used. Better than my Watermans. Better than my Montblanc. Seriously--better than my Montblanc!
I'm off to create some Cat & Beast food. I'll re-link this later.
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