Olives, beer, purple, striped things, that drink that puts you over the edge, gum, short stories, heated seats, the first class cabin, mediocre acting, airport bars, back yards, hooded sweatshirts, choosing a cell phone ring, telling long rambling pointless stories, pistachios, that feeling when you get off work on Friday afternoon like you want to go run in circles and roll around and rub up against stuff like a dog that just got out of the bath, making playlists, my little plants, the 3-legged plastic thing that keeps the top of the box from crushing your pizza, maintaining appropriate windshield wiper speed
Anyone who's not afraid to laugh at themselves.
The Beatles, The Decembersits, Wilco, Curtis Mayfield, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Neutral Milk Hotel, Loretta Lynn, The Smiths, Neil Young, Elliott Smith
Ghostbusters, Silence of the Lambs, Amadeus, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Moonstruck, Frida, Coal Miner's Daughter, Best in Show
Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, The Office, Weeds, Project Runway, Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty
Nine Stories, Flannery O'Connor short stories, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Poisonwood Bible, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, Everything Is Illuminated, anything by David Sedaris or Augusten Burroughs
My mother. And Ellen. We loved her first!