anything human rights if it's not polemic, sports that give you bruises (especially rugby and volleyball), people - what they think, how they feel, the when's, why's, where's and how's, burping contests, sun bathing (tehehe)
Speak
the Akha people
"all my friends at the same time;" the Akha Children at CGT - again; the people at the these fine churches (check them out if you get a chance): St. Jakobi (Vogtland, Germany) , Wooddale (Twin Cities area/Minnesota, USA) , St. Anne's (London, UK) , and Glorious Undead (London, UK) , Ruawai and Paparoa Community Churches (North Island, New Zealand)
the coolest private investigator ever, Thomas Sullivan Magnum III
Strong Bad - say what you mean and mean what you say
Alan Partridge - the one and only. I want to marry him...or if that doesn't work out:
lots of different stuff...Comeback Kid, Neil Young, The Ataris, Johnny Cash, No Innocent Victim, Pedro the Lion, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Today Forever, Zyllah (r.i.p.), Aerosmith, Sufjan Stevens, Taking Names, Seventh Star, xLooking Forwardx, War of Ages, Bloody Sunday, Radio Rivendell , Kiss, Inked In Blood (my best MySpace friends) and many more
love 'em...especially if they make you laugh or think or both, or if they're good thesis material. here are some i like...Vanishing Point, Powwow Highway, The Searchers, High Noon, Unforgiven, The Lord of the Rings, Krull, The Dark Crystal, Thin Red Line, Donny Darko, The Village, Walk the Line, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 8MM, American Beauty, Legally Blonde, Bend It Like Beckham, Detroit Rock City, 300, Sunshine, Fight Club, The Fifth Element
to make you think.... Free the West Memphis Three
to make you laugh... HOMESTAR RUNNER
Magnum P.I., Alan Partridge, The Fairly Odd Parents, Gilmore Girls, The OC, My So-Called Life, sumo wrestling on Eurosport, Tatort, Grey's Anatomy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, VEGGIE TALES
anything J.R.R. Tolkien, Astrid Lindgren, Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett, Otherland, quite a few of the SLG comics (especially Bear , I Feel Sick, and Serenity Rose ), The New York Trilogy, Stasiland, The Collected Dorothy Parker, The Scarlet Letter, No Place on Earth, Red Moon Rising
Sophie Scholl