gonna collect the moments one by one, i guess that's how the future's done...
material culture, colonial architecture, historic preservation, graveyards, collecting (and reading)books, the art of stir-frying, the art of subtly taking over the stir-frying, thrifting, dance parties (esp. of the underwear variety), the Irish language, fingerpainting, research, libraries, writing looooong papers, maori warfare, hiking, caving, extra-dry cappuccinos, museums, road trips, bad photography, bonobos, the evolutionary origin of human aggression, trivial pursuit, traveling with my parents, traveling with the ladies, traveling with anyone, mathews county!, archaeology of the Bible, collaging, leroy and his ears, losing things, snail mail (esp. involving CDs and other forms of fun), gin, craigslist, blog-stalking, the thompson twins, too much brie and red stripe at the dodger, rearranging my living room, crosswords and recently sudoku, attempting to get a perfect score on the GRE, obsessively researching grad schools, contemplating unemployment.
jolie holland, feist, the cure, the weakerthans, q and not u, broken social scene, iron and wine, neutral milk hotel, old crow medicine show, jeff buckley, shout out louds, joanna newsom, the notwist, sufjan stevens. lotsa other schtuff...
Garden State, American Splendor, Lost in Translation, Boondock Saints, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 8 1/2, Godspell, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Amelie, Labyrinth, Neverending Story, Buffalo '66, Waking Life, The Secret of Roan Inish, Brazil, Much Ado About Nothing, The Princess Bride, Fantasia, Benny & Joon, The Goonies, Saved!, Harold & Maude, Love Actually, Life is Beautiful, Waking Ned Divine, all Monty Python, Buster Keaton
and this:
gilmore girls. that's it really, except for when i visit my parents and watch an all-day marathon of the dog whisperer.
Sophie's Choice, The Rapture of Canaan, The Bell Jar, Prince of Tides, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Middlesex, anything David Sedaris, Flannery O'Connor, The Red Flannel Rag, The Times of Their Lives, Running with scissors, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Franny and Zooey, The Beautiful and Damned, Lie Down in Darkness, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Helen Hollick's Pendragon's Banner Trilogy, Stephen Jay Gould essays on natural history, High Points in Anthropology, most ethnographies and random history books.