Eating, drinking, making merry, European films and music (both artsy and trashy), shaking my ass on the dance floor, travel, foreign languages (currently speak French, Italian and some German), walking, flirting with hot and quirky homos.
Cool people (you know who you are).
!!! (Chik-Chik-Chik), Jane Birkin, Lio, Stereo Total, Olivia Newton-John, ABBA, Ramones, Air, Imperial Teen, Pixies, Breeders, Dalida, Mina, Ornella Vanoni, Boston, Journey, Hollies, Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, ELO, Air Supply, Raffaella Carra, Princess Stephanie of Monaco
Grindhouse, Cloverfield, Idiocracy (rent it!),Bleu (Kieslowski), Kill Bill Vol 1, The Apple, Serial Mom, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Phenomena (Argento), The Beyond (Fulci), Xanadu, Forbidden Zone, La Boum, La Boum 2, L'Etudiante, 8 Femmes (8 Women), Sous le Sable (Under the Sand), Paranoia (Orgasmo-Lenzi), Sissi, Falcon's classic Spring Break with Kevin Wiles, Devil in Miss Jones (actually a pretty good film), Facedance Obsession (the gayest straight porn ever made-Hakan Serbes and Nacho Vidal can't get enough of each other)
Battlestar Galactica (2000s version), Project Runway, ANTM (as a social event), Desperate Housewives (yes, I'm still watching it, even if first season was the best), Avengers (Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg kick ass!), North and South (best miniseries ever!), V and V: The Final Battle, Canzonissima and Milleluci (old Italian variety shows), Absolutely Fabulous, South Park, 24
L'etranger (The Stranger-Camus), Against Interpretation and Other Essays (S. Sontag), Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black-Stendhal), Candide, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Overlook Encyclopedia of Horror Films (Phil Hardy), Encyclopedia of Film (Ephraim Katz), Leonard Maltin's Video Guide
We all have the capacity to be heroes at times. Villains too.