Hugs, people, space wine, the art of conversation, Nikon D50, 2003 Land Rover Discovery SD Sport Utility 4D, caffeine, music, hatha yoga, walking, travelling, wandering, driving, photography, Russia, Tesco, London, Grammar Nazism, piano, film, bike riding, snail mail, kissing, synthesizers, lomography, silver-dollar hashbrowns, passion, realism, the abject, Shark Week, my iPod, dim lights, nighttime, spontaneity, airports, life, fashion, water, petit fours, French, banjoes, hand claps, cowbell, eye contact, holding hands, being outside, human resilience, dancing, friends, family, the feeling of relief, and Jesus. I have a secret affinity for good, quality hip-hop.
Vonnegut, so I can experience his sarcasm. Ansel Adams, because I need tips. Arthur Koestler, because he seems like a genuinely strange, bizarre human being. Billy Zane... a marriage proposal. And these guys:
Radiohead, Beck, Björk, The Beatles, Of Montreal, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Massive Attack, Ministry of Sound, Jimmy Eat World, Frank Sinatra, Rufus Wainwright, Sufjan Stevens, Thicke, Jamiroquai, Matchbox Twenty, Imogen Heap, Daft Punk, John Mayer, Spoon, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Pinback, U2, Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Sacred Harp Singers, The Who, Chopin, The Eagles, Ben Harper, LCD Soundsystem, Foreigner, ELO, Snoop, Cake, Alanis Morissette, Muse, The Flaming Lips, Beethoven, Strauss, Billy Joel, DMB, Lauryn Hill, Sigur Ros, Outkast, Queen, The Police, Elton John, Air, Oasis, Ratatat, 3EB, The Strokes, Counting Crows, Lindsay Buckingham, Michael Jackson
Se7en, Pi, Borat, Oliver!, Big Fish, Casino Royale, A Clockwork Orange, Gladiator, Jurassic Park, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Girl With A Pearl Earring, Ace Ventura 1&2, The Matrix, Hotel Rwanda, Harry Potter I-IV, Sex Lies and Videotape, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars I-VI, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Adaptation, The Life Aquatic, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, Fight Club, American Psycho, The Neverending Story, The Goonies, Career Opportunities, Mystic River, Labyrinth, The Secret Life of 12 Year Olds, Ferngully, Flight of the Navigator, The Lion King, Forest Gump, The Sixth Sense, Trainspotting, The Graduate, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Moulin Rouge, Stephen King's IT, Blow, Romeo + Juliet, American History X, Life As A House, The Pianist, Silence of the Lambs, Blazing Saddles, Say Anything, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Exorcist, Proof, Boondock Saints, Edward Scissorhands, Shrek 1 and 2, Airplane!, Arthur, Garden State, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pulp Fiction, The Virgin Suicides, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine, Shaun of the Dead. I freaking love movies, man. Pretty much anything with Christopher Walken, Will Ferrell, Ed Norton, James Spader, John Cusack, Bill Murray, Jim Carrey, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Johnny Depp, Scarlett Johansson, or Kathy Bates in it. AND anything directed by Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski, Baz Luhrmann, Guy Ritchie, Steve Soderbergh, Wes Anderson, George Lucas or Ridley Scott. Maybe a little Gus Van Sant, too. Also, any film with a screenplay written by Charlie Kaufman. I probably just covered every good film in existence.
Flight of the Conchords, Planet Earth, Nip/Tuck, House M.D., Wonder Years, Quantum Leap, Wonder Showzen, Queer Eye, Project Runway, CSI: Las Vegas, Monk, The Office (BBC), SNL, Conan O'Brien, Sex And The City
Robert M. Pirsig, Eve Ensler, Stephen Hawking, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, JD Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, Mitch Albom, Ken Kesey, TS Eliot, Dr. Suess, Hesse, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Kurt Vonnegut
People that continue to live life to the fullest, though hindered by some kind of physical disability. They amaze me. And Steve Irwin, the bravest man (that was) alive.