Synesthesia. Bowling. Actually I'm not a bowler, but I'd like to be. Books. Scrabble. Friends. Helping others. The way babies look at me. When the second hand, minute hand, and hour hand align for a brief moment, twelve times a day. The crunch of snow under heavy boots. Looking at myself, upside down in a convex mirror. A 1965 Dodge Dart Convertible. The subtleties of life. Running my hand up an intricately carved bannister as I ascend a staircase. Felt pens. The sound of a deck of cards being shuffled. Protruding hip bones. Skipped rocks. Maps. The arrangement of letters on a keyboard. I am particular to 'xcvbn'. Pure drawn butter. The highlands of Scotland. A bird drinking from a spilt carton of egg nog days before Christmas. Chocolate covered raisins. Waves crashing. Pianos played.
Tecumseh. Eunomia. Edward O. Wilson. Jim White. Jackie Robinson. Thomas Jefferson. Mitch Hedberg in the afterlife. Amadou & Miriam. Ani Difranco. General William Sherman. Roger Ebert. Various cereal related cartoon characters, including but not limited to: The Trix Rabbit, Smackie the Frog, the Lucky Charms Leprechaun, Count Chocula, Tony the Tiger. Definitely not the Honeycomb hedgehog or whatever it is.
Fleetwood Mac. Basement. Jaxx. Michael Jackson. Ali Farka Tour. AIH. Why?. Heart. Zap Mama. Groove Armada. Slayer.
Lately, anything in the comedy genre. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Lost in translation. Little Miss Sunshine. Goodbye Lenin. The Royal Tenenbaums. Rushmore. Man in the Moon. SLC Punk. Uncle Buck. Documentaries of all shapes and sizes.
The Wire. Discovery Channel. Black Books.
The Zanzibar Chest. The Year of Magical Thinking. Consilience. The Future of Life. Under the Banner of Heaven. The Mystery of Capital. The Wealth of Nations. Hegemony or Survival. The Journals of Dan Eldon, The Journey is the Destination. Capital Losses. Maus. Collapse. Lonely Planet guidebooks.
My parents. Al Gore. Joan Didion. Eddie O. Crossing Guards. The charming gardeners of my soul. Jacques Brugnon. Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis. Henri Jean Cochet. Hernando de Magallanes. Jean Borotra. Rene Lacoste. Whoever makes snow fall and sun shine.