the difference between ironic and coincidental, humor,love, music,journaling, sketchbooking, telling people about what I dreamed last night even when they aren't interested, grammar and languages ,wabi sabi, foreign foods (especially Asian), the moon when its huge and orange, flea markets& garage sales, doodling, the shape of rocks & olives, cursive, museums of all kinds, books,eastern philosophy, going for drives, nature (from a safe and comfortable distance) photography, people watching, being sentimental, moisturizing-lotion & other "products",knitting and crocheting,the beach, the good old fashioned art of writing letters, office supplies, nature shows, tigers, chocolate, coffee, painting my nails, taking naps, cooking,and talk radio to name a few
People who can make me laugh, cowboys and/or cowgirls, other moms, creative and unique people, oddballs, weirdos and dorks
Any thing by Cole Porter, but especially sung by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald or Peggy Lee, Air, Al Green, America, American Analog Set,Anita O'Day,Amadou and Mirriam,Archer Prewitt, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Bessie Smith, Bill Withers, Billie Holiday, Bikini Kill,Bjork, Black Heart Procession,Bob Mould, Brian Eno, Buddy Holly, Busy Signals, Camera Obscura, Chemical Bros, Asha Bohnsle and other old Bollywood singers, Cibelle, Cibo Matto, Cornershop, Curtis Mayfield, Daft Punk,Dan Zanes, Dead Milkmen, De La Soul,Dinosaur Jr, Dolly Parton,Earth Wind and Fire, Edith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliot Smith, Elton John, Esquivel, Etta James, Everything but the Girl, FLaming Lips, Frank Black, The Gossip,Guided by VOices, His Name is Alive,Hank Williams, Hockey Night, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, Janes Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash,Kelis, Ladytron, Leonard Cohen, Liz Phair, Looper, Loretta Lynn, Magnetic Fields, Macha, TheMake Up, Mason Jennings, MC Paul Barman, Michael Jackson, Miho Hatori, MOdest MOuse,My Morning Jacket, Manu Chao,Old Country, Peaches, Peggy Lee, Phoenix,Pixies, PJ Harvey,Pretty Girls Make Graves, Prince, Public Enemy, Radiohead,Sam Prekop, Sarah Vaughn, The Sea and Cake,Serge Gainsbourg,The SHins, Sly and the Family Stone,Snowden,Spiritualized, Sonic Youth, Steely Dan,StPauliGrla, Stereototal, Stereolab, Suburbs, Sugarcubes, Television,Teenage Fanclub, Tina Turner,Tom Waits, TOm Petty, Tori AMos, Triangle, Tribe Called Quest, TV on the Radio, WEen, XTC, Yo La Tengo,
Harold and Maude, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Ma Vie en Rose,Y Tu Mama Tambien, Labyrinth, Idiocracy, Office Space,Working Girl, THe Castle, Mean Creek,Hairspray, Hilary and Jackie, Cry Baby, Calamari Wrestler, Dragnet (80's version)Moonstruck, Purple Rain, American Movie, Beautiful Creatures, Rushmore,REno 911, Any ZOmbie- themed movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Groundhog day, I heart hucabees, PRincess Bride,Punch Drunk Love,Reflections in a GOlden eye (anything with Liz Taylor, really, except that horse movie when she was younger) Hysterical Blindness,Half Baked, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Mildred Pierce, Dances with Wolves (I know, I know, but I cant help it, maybe its cuz I was born in So.Dak), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,CB4, Life is Beautiful,SHEdevil, AMelie, GHOST DOG:WAY OF THE SAMURAI!
How Its Made,Planet Earth Series, Aqua Teen, RObot Chicken, Sealab, Simpsons, Talk Soup, Kids in the Hall, Family Guy, Arrested Development,News Radio, anything on VH1(sad, but true) CSI, Project Runway, Strangers with Candy...
Some books/writers I like: Margaret Atwood, ANais Nin, Tom Perrota,David Sedaris, T.C. Boyle, Lorna Landvick, David FOster Wallace, Ayn Rand,Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Shel SIlverstein, Zadie Smith,Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Falkner, Judy BLoom, Jean Rhys, Isabelle Allende,Natsuo Kirino, Tom RObbins, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski(sometimes), Kate Chopin, JD Salinger,Toni Morrison, Carson McCullers, Perfume, One THousand white women, Tao te Ching, Handmaids Tale,
My mom and her mom. Strong women with a sense of humor.