dance, theatre, writing short stories, people-watching, carpentry, daydreaming, travel, staying out all night, walking around the city streets at dawn
Anyone with a creative imagination and artistic intelligence. Someone who would go to the ballet one night, even just to try it out.
'80s Brit invasion, The Cure, New Order, Joy Division, the Smiths, Dido, Sia, Travis, Rosa Passos, Fred Astaire, Roy Orbison, The Walkmen, Snow Patrol, Run-DMC, Miles Davis, Keb Mo, Piazzolla, Otis Redding, Louis Armstrong, random hard rock songs, Prokofiev, Bach's Double Violin Concerto
A Room With a View, King of the Hill (underappreciated Steven Soderbergh film), The Purple Rose of Cairo, Manhattan, Pandora's Box, Wings of Desire, La Jetee, Some Like It Hot, The Searchers, His Girl Friday, Amelie, Pride & Prejudice (the A&E version from a few years back), Chicago, the Fred & Ginger flicks, John Sayles' films, most of the Cusack ouvre. Also, I must admit that Will Farrell makes me laugh so hard.
BBC comedies, Fawlty Towers, Mystery!, This Old House, POV, The Daily Show, Fraggle Rock, Veronica Mars
Dandelion Wine, The Portable Dorothy Parker, On The Road, Twenty Love Poems: And a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, Capote's short stories, mostly everything by Tennesse Williams, Clarence Major, Shel Silverstein, David McCullough, the writings of DaVinci, books about architecture, books about dance especially those about George Balanchine
My mother. Cliche? Yes. The truth? Absolutely.