feminism, writing, ballet, ballroom, music, reading, movies, tattoos, psychology, religion, working, Irish culture, poetry, people, secrets, blues, New Orleans, Austin
Einstein: He once said something about how your problems in math don't compare to his. I'd like to talk to him about perseverance. DaVinci: You ever wonder what he thought his greatest act of art or science was? Me too. Van Gough: I hope to drink with him in the afterlife. W.B. Yeats: I'd want to be his muse, or his pupil. Or both. Alice Paul: I'd ask her what women should do next.
Stevie Ray Vaughn, Van Morrison, Nine Inch Nails, Dropkick Murphys, Billie Holliday, Sam Cooke, B.B.King, Little Junior Parker, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Christina Aguilera, Solomon Burke, The Doors, Johnny Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Old Crow Medicine Show, basically if it's worth listening to (especially rock), I'll listen to it.
Closer, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bad Santa, Lost in Translation, Big Fish, Stranger Than Fiction, Shopgirl, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thank You For Smoking, The Departed, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Professional, Black Snake Moan, Lars and the Real Girl, Gia, Pulp Fiction, The Constant Gardener, The Simpsons Movie, Iron Jawed Angels
Law & Order: SVU, Family Guy, Bones, House, Samantha Who, Grey's Anatomy, The Simpsons
Asleep, One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, Henry and June, Big Fish, The Pursuit of Happyness, Shopgirl, Misogyny, The DaVinci Code, Fight Club, D.H. Lawrence, Lord Byron, W.B. Yeats, random religious non-fiction
Mae West, Mariska Hargitay, Andrea Parhamovich, *most* soldiers and particularly their families, people who become heroes by just being themselves