80s music, acting, bald men, BBC world news, camping, cats, being child free, classic literature, coffee, cool weather, dancing, liberal ideals, directing, dive bars, editing, England, family, the bois, freedom from organized religion, friends, genuine people, Happy Tree Friends, hating Dubbyah, hiking, imported beer, indie films, industrial music, introspection, Ireland, learning, John Pierre Jeunet, literature, live music, local music scene, love, medical writing, mountain biking, my Mikey, nature, new wave, NPR, open mindedness, people watching, poetry, politics, psychology, public displays of affection, punk ideals, reading, rockabilly, sarcasm, snow shoeing, snuggles, synthpop, theater, traveling, uncontrolled laughter, weirdness, witty conversation, writing
I'd like to meet:
OMG, this makes me cry tears of laughter! I love Alanis. (Look up the original song by Black Eyed Peas if this makes no sense to you.)
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Music:
DeVotchKa, The Pixies, The Dropkick Murpheys, The Smiths, Ella Fitzgerald, Siouxsie and the Banshees, VNV Nation, New Order, Revolting Cocks, Patsy
Cline, Dead Milkmen, The Mean-eyed Cats, Tschaikovski, Tori Amos, Etta James, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Howie Day, The Cure, Sarah McLaughlin, Delerium, Pain, The Dimestore Cowboys, Suzanne Vega, Jem, Alanis Morrisette, Sisters of Mercy, Flogging Molly, Enya, Bach, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Pet Shop Boys, Todd Snyder to name a few. I like all kinds of stuff.
Movies:
Too, too many! To name a few: The Elephant Man; Bubba Hotep; Napoleon Dynamite; Pretty in Pink; Bridget Jones's Diary; Heathers; The Usual Suspects; L.A. Confidential; The Breakfast Club; Back to the Future; He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not; Four Weddings and a Funeral; So I Married an Axe Murderer; A Very Long Engagement; Momento; Silence of the Lambs; Fargo; Philadelphia; Dangerous Liaisons; Amadeus; Army of Darkness; The Little Mermaid; The Big Lebowski; Snatch; Dangerous Beauty; Edward Scissorhands; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Peggy Sue Got Married; Amelie; Love Actually; Office Space; About a Boy
Television:
Scrubs, The Office, My Name Is Earl
Books:
T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats; Diana Gabaldon's time traveler series; Xinran's The Good Women of China; Katherine Neville's The Eight; Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha; Jane Green's Jemima J : A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans; Choderlos De Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (I read them before the movies came out, darn it!); Voltaire's Candide; Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange; Shakespeare's MacBeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night; Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays; anything by Maeve Binchey; anything by Neil Simon (my favorite playwright!); Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Lives of Bees and The Mermaid Chair; Toni Morrison's Song of Soloman; any of Frank McCourt's autobiographies
Heroes:
My Dad, my Mom, Eleanor Roosevelt, Audrey Tautou, Jon Stewart, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, T.S. Eliot, the guy who made the Pet Rock ("He made a million dollars!")
