Comedy, art, music, games- especially Boggle nights, watching my cat chase her tail until she's doing somersaults around the room (truly hilarious, she has no idea poor baby), cheese,CHEESE, I hope it's clear that I passionately love cheese, skateboarding badly while mildly intoxicated, watching my cats play hide and seek and wrestle, trying to apply permaculture principles in a practical way, singing on my own at the top of my voice, painting, long bike rides on sunny days, hiking, camping, listening to BBC online and watching my favorite comics on youtube, faeries, cooking for other people, writing stupid stand up bits and funny songs, playing with my niece, gardening, studying anthropology trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing my PhD on, travel, crystals, magic- not of the David Blaine variety I assure you, the stupid git. Just look at him, so sad . . . is he trying to be sexy?!?!?! He looks like a little kid who's pissed off because he just shit in his pants and dropped his ice cream in a puddle.
You, me, The Comedians of Comedy- every damn one of 'em, Rilo Kiley, Jennifer Saunders, The Shins, Marcus Brigstocke, Alison Bechdel, Zach Braff, Stephen Fry, Sue Perkins, Jon Stewart, Sandi Toksvig, Margaret Cho, Dawn French, Jeremy Hardy, Starhawk, Rowan Atkinson, Ang Lee, Salma Hayek, Billy Connolly, Hilary Clinton, Ralph Nader and Bill Hicks.
A little bit of everything except heavy metal/butt-rock. I'm mostly into indie rock and cultural folk music. A few favorites including old standards and new loves are: Loreena McKennitt, Guster, Tori Amos, The Be Good Tanya's, Weezer, Tom Waits, Annie Lennox, Pavement, Neil Finn, Elliot Smith, The Killers, Liz Phair, The Who, Smashing Pumpkins, Dead Can Dance, Cornershop, The Beatles, Morphine, Ben Lee, CocoRosie, Rilo Kiley, The Shins, Ryan Adams, Bjork, 311, Jeff Buckley, Everclear, Enigma, Missy Higgins, Fugees, Digable Planets, James, Alison Krauss, Enya, Gorillaz, Blur, Toad the Wet Sprocket, U2, Pink Floyd, Beck, Coldplay, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Elvis Costello, The Chili Peppers, Paul Simon, Dave Mathews Band, Peter Gabriel, Sarah McLachlan, Modest Mouse, Indigo Girls, Radiohead, Tracy Chapman, Keane, The Rolling Stones, Hello Lobster, Let's Wrestle, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, The Notwist, Robbie Robertson, Sublime, A Tribe Called Quest, Portishead, Zwan, Regina Spektor, The Crosswalks, Beastie Boys, Ani Di Franco, and the Asylum Street Spankers.
Independent and foreign films mostly . . . favorite films are Garden State, Better than Chocolate, Monty Python's films, Lost in Translation, The Secret of Roan Inish, Team America: World Police, Dodgeball, The Dancer Upstairs, Waking Life, My Neighbor Totoro, Donnie Darko, A Midnight Clear, Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise, I Heart Huckabees, Clerks, My Life as a Dog, Dead Alive, Three Seasons, Jules et Jim, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Ref, The Princess Bride, Bad Santa, Man on the Train, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Craft, Ghost Dog, Ever After (cos I'm a cheese ball), Excalibur (ditto), Sixteen Candles (yeah), Uncle Buck, Better off Dead, The South Park Movie.
Scrubs, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The League of Gentlemen, The Office (both Brit and U.S. versions), Murder Most Horrid, Mr. Show, My Name is Earl, Da Ali G Show, Father Ted, South Park, The Simpsons, The Family Guy, Strangers With Candy, SNL, The Young Ones, The L Word, Kids in the Hall, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Black Adder, Eastenders, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, A Bit of Fry and Laurie. If I had to choose between TV and radio, I'd have to pick the radio every time. RADIO- BBC: ISIHAC, and anything with Hamish and Dougal, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, Old Harry's Game, Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun, Acropolis Now, The 99p Challenge, anything Kenny Everett ever did, Just a Minute, The Museum of Everything, A Brief History of Time Wasting, Baggage, The News Quiz, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Now Show, The Masterson Inheritance, Clive Anderson's Chat Room, Dead Ringers, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, any of Mark Steel's glorious lecture series, and finally Serious About Comedy to round the whole night off. NPR/PRI: Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?, Mist Covered Mountain, A Prairie Home Companion, Thistle and Shamrock, Travel with Rick Steves, Car Talk.
The Crow Road, Tracks, Little Women, The Color Purple, Love is in the Earth, Great Expectations, The Mists of Avalon, anything by Starhawk, Edith Wharton, James Herriot, or Shakespeare. Mundane's World, DTWOF or anything by Alison Bechdel. Roots, A People's History of the U.S., Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, Wheel of the Year, Nisa, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, My Place, everything by James Baldwin, and yes . . . Harry Potter.
Bill Hicks and of course Xena: Warrior Princess because she can kick that Hercules ass. You know it's true.