Hanging out with grandmothers, learning how to be a better teacher, music, movies, D.I.Y., crafting, sewing, knitting, old things, books, art, toys, comics, zines, coffee, soy milk and shredded wheat.
shiny happy people holding hands
WAY too many to name, but recently: Daniel Johnston, The Vaselines, Beck, Built to Spill, Dinosaur Jr., The Blow, Bauhaus, and Morrissey.
The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Go watch it now.
shmelavision.
Yes please. I'm a sucker for print. Currently: Listen Up!, Issues in Feminism, Making Sense of Women's Lives, the GRE prep book, Literate Lives in the Information Age, Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition, Rethinking Schools: An Agenda for Change. For fun: Anything from Top Shelf Comics is usually decent. The same goes for Fantagraphics. Always: Doris, Cometbus, Venus, Bust, Bitch, Zmag, Earth First, and The Progressive New Finds: Paste and Ready Made magazines.
People who are fun, conscious, and creative:)