architecture, Blythe dolls, boys, cheap art, cooking, cynicism, eating cheese, fae, geisha culture, jewelry, knitting, ladybugs, lilies, luna moths, making stuff, mandibles, old shoes, painting, pond scum, poetry, picture-taking, reading, rings, ruling the world, tsumami kanzashi, vintage cameras, vintage hats, writing, you
-People with a real concern for this reality.
-Those not in desperate search of punani.
-Dave Matthews.
-The gnome that keeps stealing my socks.
-A very wordy bit of protoplasm.
In some semblance of order: Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Regina Spektor, Daft Punk, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, No Doubt, Alanis Morisette, Queen, John Coltrane, The Beatles, VooDoo Blue, Spinal Tap, Moby, They Might Be Giants, Warren Zevon, Stone Temple Pilots, CCR, AC/DC, Homestar Runner, Devil Doll, random internet radio
Casablanca, Se7en, Twelve Monkeys, Brazil, Fight Club, the claymation Christmas movies, The Shawshank Redemption, Life is Beautiful, The Lord of the Rings, American History X, American Beauty, Bring It On, The Princess Bride, Wicked City, Sin City, The Harry Potter movies, Scary Movie, The Life of Brian, Kung Pow, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, The Fifth Element, Adam Sandler flicks, Mel Brooks flicks, Moulin Rouge, Detroit Rock City, the Transformers movie, pretty much lots of movies
CNN, Trading Spaces, CSI, Gilmore Girls, Robot Chicken... uh... the Weather Channel...
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott), Harry Potter (JK Rowling), coffee table books, Everything's Eventual (Steven King), lots of childrens' books, The Brothers Grimm, Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi), Maus (Art Speigleman), Memoirs of a Geisha, a little bit of Kipling, Jung, et al
... are often just castles in the air.