The people who lived during the first gasp of the modern era, Maintaining conversational agility despite being in the thick of medical education, bicycle riding (cyclocross, fixie, road, mountain), telemark skiing, snowboarding, pretending to surf, the SE quadrant of Portland, people who are presently living in Brooklyn, Scandanavian Folk Dancing, Driving with the windows open and the radio on.
Bookwormy girls who aren't afraid to run their mouths.My maternal grandmother, Carl Sagan, Jeff Buckley, the children I used to play with at day care, Mary Quant, John Steinbeck, Barry Sanders, Neal Towne Stephenson, Ike Reilly, Carl Sandburg, Tori Amos, Jenny Lewis, someone who knows something about silk screening, Ian Steele, and many many more names than I can drop here.
Andrew Bird, Sigur Ros, Belle & Sebastian, Atmosphere, Outkast, Whiskey Town, Graham Parsons, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, The Arcade Fire, Sujan Stevens, Led Zepplin, The Flaming Lips, Elliot Smith, The Smiths, Aimee Mann, Peter Oyloe, The White Stripes, Tori Amos, Lyle Lovett, Garth Brooks, Joni Mitchell, Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service, The Clash, Sade, Patti Smith
Shawshank Redemption, Annie Hall, Sneakers, The Hudsucker Proxy, Searching for Bobby Fischer, I Heart Huckabee's, Little Miss Sunshine
The Office (UK), NOVA, Entourage, shows that speculate on origin of the human species, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Cosmos,
A Confederacy of Dunces, Sirens of Titan, The Wind in the Willows, The Foundation Triology, Cosmos (or anything else by Carl Sagan), Cryptonomicon, anything by Astrid Lindgren, The Great Gatsby, The People Yes,
My Parents, Carl Sagan, Atticus Finch, James Miner, Michelle Biros, Rich Gray, Environmentalists, my classmates who have children, people who figured out what they liked about themselves early in life and kept on doing it.