dance (ballet and modern are my first loves, but I enjoy it all), capoeira, comic books, video games, going to shows, good music, good art, movies, reading, NPR
People who inspire and challenge me to be a better person. Perpetual Motion/Modern Dance Oklahoma highlight reelOk, I know every dancer puts this video on their page...but it's so freakin' beautiful that I just don't care
In alphabetical order: Aireline, Alison Krauss & Union Station, All Star United, Andrew Collins, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Ben Folds, Bjork, Bond, Burlap to Cashmere, Cake, Chasing Furies, Coldplay, Colin Hay, Common, Counting Crows, Damien Rice, the Dandy Warhols, Danny Elfman, Dave Matthews Band, David Gray, Derek Webb, Dixie Chicks, Feist, Fiona Apple, Flaming Lips, Fleming & John, the Fray, Gnarls Barkley, Gorrilaz, Green Day, Green Lemon, the Hannah Wolff Band, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Jack Johnson, Jamie Cullum, Jars of Clay, Jay-Z, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Eat World, John Mayer, Johnny Cash, Jump Little Children, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, the Katies, Killers, Linkin Park, Luma, Lynden, Maroon 5, Michael Jackson, Missy Elliot, Modest Mouse, Nickel Creek, N.E.R.D., No Doubt, Ours, Outkast, Patty Griffin, Plumb, Postal Service, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Rufus Wainwright, Sam & Ruby, Sarah McLachlan, Seven Day Jesus, the Shins, Sixpence None The Richer, Scissor Sister, Snow Patrol, Stephen Speaks, Sting, Straylight Run, Switchfoot, System of a Down, Thom Yorke, U2, Umbrella Tree, Venus Hum, Weezer, White Stripes, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.....and as a recovering NSYNC-aholic, I do understand that admitting the problem is the first step to recovery.
Playing By Heart, Batman Begins, An American In Paris, Singin' In The Rain (I adore Gene Kelley), Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, V for Vendetta, Sin City, Equilibrium, Constantine, X-Men (all 3), Spiderman 1 & 2 (I haven't totally decided if I actually liked 3 or not), Stranger Than Fiction, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, American Beauty, the Last Samurai, Garden State, Serendipity, Fight Club, Princess Bride, Underworld, the Matrix (all three movies, and most definately including the Animatrix), Hellboy, Love Actually, Anniversay Party, Zoolander, the Royal Tenenbaums, Love Actually, Memento, Magnolia, Man From Snowy River, Return to Snowy River, Donnie Darko, Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys, Sex and Lucia, Kill Bill, About A Boy, Gattaca
Heroes, Angel (damn you WB), Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, Firefly (why do all the good ones get cancelled?), Pushing Daisies, House, M.D., How I Met Your Mother, Men In Trees, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, Buffy, Six Feet Under, Scrubs, My Name is Earl, Battlestar Galatica, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Family Guy, Coupling (the British version only), Samurai Jack, almost anything on the History Channel, Alias, Teen Titans, Inuyasha, Robot Chicken (love Seth Green), Futurama, most of Adult Swim, Freeks and Geeks, Batman: the Animated Series, Batman Beyond
Chronicles of Narnia (all 7 books), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books in the trilogy), The Little Prince, Otherland (all 4 books), Catcher In The Rye, Neuromancer, The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Kingdom Come, Wicked, Son Of A Witch, Million Little Pieces, Angels & Demons, Hinds Feet On High Places, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, the Screwtape Letters (pretty much anything by C.S. Lewis)
Bono, John Stewart, Anna Pavlova, Kathy Thibodeaux, Audra, Elizabeth Dungen, Paul & Virgina Hampton (Mimi & Papa), Tavius