I find the following headline from The Onion Radio News (but not domestic violence) absolutely hilarious : "An abusive obsessive-compulsive has to punch his wife exactly twenty times."
listening to NPR, making mix CD's, reading, dancing, museum-going,general goof-offery, and taking pictures with my nifty digital camera.
I'm keen on slightly to moderately damaged people; would love to meet some of those. Oh, and Stephen Colbert.Also, it might be good to meet someone who is genuinely happy and/or pleased with their lot in life. And I don't mean in an idiot/don't-know-any-better way, but in a completely-aware-that-life-is-incredibly-cruel-and-unfair-an d-monotonous-but-still-worth-living way.
Neko Case, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Rage Against the Machine, The Shins, Wilco, Mary J. Blige, The New Pornographers, CCR, Al Green, Sublime, Outkast, Ella Fitzgerald.
Lost in Translation, Ghost World, When Harry Met Sally, The Basketball Diaries, About a Boy, Life is Beautiful, Kingpin, Almost Famous, Wallace and Gromit (The Wrong Trousers), Cinema Paradiso, Farewell my Concubine, Indochine, Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Emperor's New Groove, Once.
Mad Men and Run's House are awesome.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, White Teeth, Middlesex, The Color Purple, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Before Night Falls, Invisible Man, Arrancame la Vida, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, Life of Pi.
Garden-variety "super" will do.