Victoriana, Victorian Gothic, Rococo, Baroque, Shabby-Chic and cottage styles, crafting and decorating-especially for holidays, Christmas, Halloween, fairies, roses, pretty pink and sparkly girlie things, fall, winter, history, Italian and Italian-American culture and history, languages and linguistics.
Gladiator, The Passion of the Christ, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Amistad, The Color Purple, Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias, Marie Antoinette, The Dark Crystal,Moonstruck, The Family Stone, Brokeback Mountain, Good Morning, Babylon, Mediterraneo, The Notebook, Life is Beautiful, The Silence of the Lambs,Red Dragon, Copycat, the Saw series, Dawn of the Dead (remake), The Strangers, Halloween and a bunch of other horror movies, Shaun of the Dead, Beetlejuice, The Village, Signs, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Silkwood, Chinatown, A Beautiful Mind, The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottlerocket, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, As Good as it Gets, Something's Gotta Give, Little Miss Sunshine, Zoolander, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Lethal Weapon 4, Terminator 2, Apocalypto, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight
Dexter, Project Runway, reruns of Sex and the City, Frasier, Will & Grace, Mash, All in the Family, MSNBC documentaries, tru TV, Animal Planet, HGTV
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Beloved by Toni Morrison, crafting and decorating magazines like Romantic Country, Country Victorian, Victoria, Home Companion, Romantic Homes, and Somerset Life
God, my mother, my sister, Brian and countless others.