Music, dancing, singing, reading, writing, watching movies, meeting with friends, teaching my daughter to write and read and dance.
New and old friends. Anyone who wants to discuss the musicians and writers I admire. Anyone who writes anything at all (except erotica). Anyone who struggles with mental illness.
Nick Drake, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paolo Nutini, The Grateful Dead, Glen Hansard, Cowboy Junkies, Joni Mitchell, Brooke Fraser, REM, Neil Young, Ray Lamontagne, Coldplay, Dan Zanes, David Gray, Paul Simon, James Blunt, Jack Johnson...
The Hours, Annie Hall, American Splendor, Sideways, Sliding Doors, Center Stage, 25th Hour, Almost Famous, Reign Over Me, The Machinist, Friends With Money, Fight Club, Pay It Forward, Iris, The Big Kahuna, 13 Conversations About One Thing, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Alfie, Keeping the Faith, You've Got Mail, High Fidelity, About Schmidt, Office Space, American Beauty, Magnolia, Good Will Hunting, Pretty Woman, It Could Happen to You, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Carwash, Girl Interrupted, Meet the Robinsons...and more.
House, PBS, Discovery Channel (not much of a TV fan)
The Hours (novel and screenplay); Waiting for Godot; anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Iris Murdoch, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Lauren Slater, David Sedaris, Ernest Hemingway, Jodi Picoult, Alice Sebold and John Grisham; The Grapes of Wrath; The Fountainhead; Sideways; The Bell Jar; Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Autobiography of a Face (Lucy Grealy); The Hot Zone; Friday Night Lights; Angela's Ashes; The Glass Castle; I Capture the Castle; The Netherworld; The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey; A Farewell to Arms; The Great Gatsby; I'm With The Band.
Gentle, patient mothers; challenging teachers; rescue workers; social workers who love their jobs. And Mick Jagger.