independence, quirky habits, music, books, writing, films, cats, and art (all things dark and beautiful)...
People who are open-minded, funny, and loving; creative, but not pretentious. Honesty is imperative. I love people who like to rock, but know how to talk. People who smell like soap or Old Spice and like to give big hugs.
Pretty much anything, but especially something that makes my ass wiggle and my ears ring: Neutral Milk Hotel, Magnetic Fields, Elf Power, The Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Kinks, Velvet Underground, Nick Drake, The Lilys, Fruit Bats, White Stripes, Black Keys, Grandaddy, Dreadful Yawns, The Perfect Guy, Mates of State, Brian Straw, Stephen Malkmus (w/Jicks, Pavement, etc.), Delgados, Misfits, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Eliott Smith, Bjork, Luna, Modest Mouse, The Waxwings, Andrew Bird, CCB, Mary Timony, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Slobberbone, Beck, the M's, Spoon, Iron & Wine, Tiger Lilies, Bright Eyes, Cat Power, Olivia Tremor Control, Hum, BJM, The Afternoon Naps, Canada, Wiyos, Under Byen, Gillian Welch, Mazzy Star, Sparklehorse, and many more...
Delicatessan, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Time Bandits, 12 Monkeys, A Very Long Engagement, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, 25th Hour, Dancer in the Dark, Fight Club, Serpent and the Rainbow, Henry and June, Donnie Darko, Beetlejuice, NBX, The Usual Suspects, Shallow Grave, Brick, American History X, An Inconvenient Truth, Silence of the Lambs, Six String Samurai, Pan's Labyrinth
The Simpsons, Family Guy, SOPRANOS, Six Feet Under, FSTV... Not a big fan of watching television...
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), White Teeth (Zadie Smith), A Wrinkle in Time series (Madeline L'Engle), Einstein's Dreams (Lightman), anything by Palahniuk, Gorey, or e.e. cummings
My mom. Anyone who insists on holding out for what they truly want from life.