Monday, August 18, 2008

the tens

i feel like itemizing.

ten songs that make me sigh.
1. the lakes of canada - the innocence mission
2. the great escape - moby
3. motion picture soundtrack - radiohead
4. redford(for yia-yia & pappou) - sufjan stevens
5. lull - andrew bird
6. this must be the place - talking heads
7. homesick - kings of convenience
8. andvari - sigur ros
9. push your head towards the air - the editors
10. see you soon - coldplay

ten places i wouldn't mind living.
1. seattle
2. beijing (but i don't know for how long)
3. paris
4. haifa
5. maine (although, i've never been there)
6. london
7. new york (but i don't know for how long)
8. orcas island
9. florence
10. errr

things that are just good.
1. peanut butter toast
2. the periodic table of elements
3. locating the light from a prism
4. music with soul
5. brandy (you're a fine girl) - looking glass (those trumpets kill me)
6. walking out of a movie theatre and feeling new
7. unagi
8. this, this, this and this
9. napping
10. swings

ten things it would have been fun to be when i grew|grow up
1. a cheese connoisseur
2. a fashion designer
3. a printmaker
4. the curator of the musee d'orsay
5. coldplay's 5th member
6. a professional tree friend (for hugging, climbing, watering etc.)
7. a piano tuner
8. owner of the world's most bestest bookstore ever! i would call it folded pages or something.
9. food critic
10. florist

ten little things that are major.
1. how the sun shines between trees
2. watching clouds move
3. hands on shoulders
4. butterflies
5. that the moon only shines because of the sun's light
6. walking at dawn or dusk
7. the sound of my dad tuning his guitar
8. bagpipes
9. babies hands
10. getting postcards in the mail

things i'd like to have been
1. a rainy day
2. a gardenia
3. the sound leaving a bagpipe
4. folded pages of a favorite book
5. sufjan steven's banjo
6. the life of a leaf
7. a star
8. a particle of water in the pacific ocean
9. a cello
10. purple

ok.

2 comments:

a penny for the old guy said...

lovely lovely lovely.
i haven't indulged my addiction to listography in a while. perhaps i should. perhaps you have inspired me to. now the main problem... what shall we listograph?

Lily said...

you are so amazing.
word.