good food, good drink, good friends, good times, long days at the beach, traveling to places I already love and discovering ANYWHERE new, SHOES (particularly the dangerous & deliciously impractical variety), bright colored anything, movies, books and bands I know nothing about, scrabble and dominoes and people who are not above kicking back at home to play with me, Rollerderby and really any sport where I can drink a beer and yell a lot (but please don't ask me to pay attention to the rules), shopping with a cocktail in my hand, getting a deal, home decorating on a budget, sewing projects, camping, hiking, hot springs, spas, time with my girls, champagne brunches, shows of all kinds, learning new things, hot men, hot tattoos, hot men with hot tattoos work too, my new kitty Pumpkin, NOT working, costume parties and fantastic makeup,
and hanging out with my 2 favorite people, my neice and nephew:
anyone who can make me laugh.
Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Aretha Franklin, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Tom Waits, Elliot Smith, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Smiths, Guns'n'Roses, Zepplin, The Libertines, Nick Cave, Pixies, Portishead, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Devo, Ray Charles, Reigning Sound, Belle & Sebastian, Reverend Horton Heat, Sahara Hotnights, Blackalicious, The Run DMC, Willie Nelson, The Shins, Social Distortion, Supersuckers, Tool, The White Stripes, Thin Lizzy, Turbonegro, Portishead, Morrissey, The Postal Service, The Hellacopters, AC/DC, The Golden Gods, Duran Duran, Blondie, The Clash, Buckcherry, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bob Marley, Billie Holiday, Everything Must Go, Tupac, and the list goes on...
Blades of Glory and pretty much anything by Wes Anderson. Better Off Dead, The Proposition, Pan's Labyrinth, Totsi, Long Way Round, The Spanish Prisoner, most films by Almodovar. Generally I've got a soft spot for films of the funny, foreign or documentary variety, and anything particularly unique, moving, or thought provoking...
The Simpsons, The Family Guy, Project Runway, Lost, Discovery Channel, The Daily Show, Choppers, Flip That House, Most things on PBS
Anything by Tom Robbins, Dreams from My Father, Lovely Bones, The Kite Runnner, Best of Enemies, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Big Dog Little Dog, The Historian, Running with Scissors, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier& Clay, Confederacy of Dunces, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Youth In Revolt, many things by John Irving, and more.
Those who make the perfect pie crust...DAMN YOU!
And this woman.