roller skating, roller derby, reffing, music, wine, good beer, movies, food, chicago white sox, bellydancing, dance dance party party, musical theater, board games and crossword puzzles, books, quilts, tv, snarky blogs and news sites, dogs and kitties, poker, pilates, shoes, roller coasters, art (other people's, not my own), ireland and irish culture, public television, ghosts, my sewing machine
I heart
Ivy, Fountains of Wayne, Damien Rice, Rush, Cardigans, Gaelic Storm, Astaire (Blondfire), Stars, Arcade Fire, Garbage, Elastica, The New Pornographers, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Goldfrapp, The Jealous Sound, Portishead, Brookville, Doves, Primus, Jimmy Eat World, Save Ferris, Foo Fighters, Morcheeba, Paco, Papas Fritas, Tahiti 80, Zero 7, The Shins, Ok Go, Amy Winehouse, etc. Also musicals, both stage and screen.
In no particular order... Talladega Nights, Little Miss Sunshine, 40 Year Old Virgin, The Big Labowski, Dogma, Mallrats, Eternal Sunshine, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Quiet Man, Anchorman, Garden State, Shaun of the Dead, Bridget Jones Diary, X-Men, LOTR, Harry Potter, Amelie, Almost Famous, The Fifth Element, To Kill a Mockingbird, Some Like It Hot, High Fidelity, The Breakfast Club, In Like Flint, Death to Smoochy, Finding Nemo, Edward Scissorhands, When Harry Met Sally, Labrynth, O Brother, Office Space, Run Lola Run, Pirates of the Carribean, Children of Men, lots more
The Office, Coupling (BBC version), The Shield, Simpsons, Conan O'Brien, Letterman, most reality stuff (Top Chef, Survivor, Project Runway, Big Brother, Hell's Kitchen, ANTM, etc), White Sox baseball (Hawk and DJ, yo), Rollergirls, Scrubs, Newsradio, Lost, Anthony Bourdain No Reservations, 30 Rock, Damages, The Riches, Golden Girls, Battlestar Galactica, random PBS shows, random Discovery Channel shows.
cookbooks, "Wicked", "To Kill a Mockingbird", any Shakespeare, "The Time Travelers Wife", anything by Orson Scott Card, "Lamb", "Eat Pray Love", and lots more
in no particular order... Julia Child, Martha Stewart, Mom and Dad, non-wanker local musicians, Thurl Ravenscroft, Chicago White Sox, whoever invented Diet Coke, Gene Kelly, my neurologist, Carol from IG rescue, Lucca, Ironman participants.