I heard this on Fresh Air today and it struck me.
She loves “Blue Velvet” but also “Meet Me in St. Louis”, “The Virgin Suicides” but also “Power Puff Girls”. She has read Silvia Plath but never interpreted her writing as a call to stop shaving her armpits. She is on antidepressants but does not brag about it. She does not wear glasses but wishes she did. She does not say “You do the math” or “At the end of the day” or “Don’t go there”. She lost her virginity in a treehouse. I want to buy her books and jewelry. Being with her is weird and familiar at the same time–like a memory of the future. You know how when you are young you always think you are going to meet your ideal? You know, a woman with great hair and clothes who does not talk about her hair and clothes. A woman who does not believe “whatever” is a sentence. A woman who eats steak. A woman who is not trying to meet Wall Street guys. A woman who neither hates her mother nor is obsessed with trying to please her.
–Kyle Smith, Love Monkey
Tags: Books
April 15th, 2004 at 2:53 am
man, i wanna read that book!
April 15th, 2004 at 8:48 am
It’s not often I see an entire paragraph that I agree with.
Will have to invest in a copy, cheers!
April 20th, 2004 at 2:10 pm
a man’s expectations aren’t too high, are they?
April 1st, 2005 at 2:24 am
Wow that really cool. I was just making a post of my ideal woman and my roomate asked about what I was posting. When I told him what I was posting he told me to check this out. I have to agre with most of this, but I don’t particularly like the loss of virginity in a treehouse lol.