Cartwheels, handstands, anthropomorphication, learning, playing, deep conversations about things that otherwise go unnoticed, monkeys, metamorphasis, debauchery, feeding people tasty treats, creating art, art as living, my teddy bear, sensuality, striped socks, adventure, the smell of stationery stores, the guest list, all forms of whimsy, being a smart-ass, turning strangers into friends, making stranger friends, smooching, traveling by myself, laughing, delivering a firm pelvic thrust to a pinball machine, hitting softballs, rockin' out, bartenders, dancing deliriously, lightbulbs over kids' heads, eating ice cream while smelling cow poop, crossing boundries, breaking rules, discovering all the hidden wonders of the world, being intoxicated, coloring, inciting mayhem and revelry.
Magicians.
The Beatles, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Manson, Prince, Bjork, Ramones, Ozzy, Big Brother and the Holding Company, early Michael Jackson, Clash, Pretenders, Jeff Buckely, Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, Luscious Jackson, John Coltrane, Freddy Hubbard, Beastie Boys, Talvin Singh, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Blind Faith, SRV, Beck... TV on the Radio, White Stripes, Spoon, Rogers Sisters, Nada Surf, System of a Down, Jim Carroll Band, The Stooges
Local bands I love to see live: World/Inferno Friendship Society, Spottiswoode & His Enemies, Northern State, St. Low, The Sad Little Stars, The Fab Faux, The Groove Bros., John Brown's Body, anything Mike Stark plays in, Bronwen Exter, Damian Quinones, The Inklings, The Animators, Daphne, Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos, SiSe, Trevor Exter, Lucky Bitch, Nanuchka, Dealer, Johnny Society, Fro, J DiMenna, FRO!, Tim Fite, etc...
Sin City, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Matrix, Fight Club, Monsters Inc., City of God, Usual Suspects, Arsenic & Old Lace, Old School, Princess Bride, Spirited Away, Seven Samurai, Bambi, Finding Neverland, Bill and Ted, Edward Scissorhands, Session 9, Legally Blonde, Moonstruck, Reservoir Dogs, 40 Year Old Virgin
Simpsons, Family Guy, Greg the Bunny, Scrubs, Battlestar Gallactica, food shows, nature/science shows... and all the Law & Orders that you could ever imagine watching.
Anything by Jack Kerouac, Chuck Palahniuk (except Haunted), Roald Dahl, Nick Bantok, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Alvin Maker, Golden Compass, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Snow Crash, Kafka on the Shore, Kavalier & Clay, Snow In August, Littlest Friend, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Everything Is Illuminated, Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn, Tender at the Bone, Kite Runner, Life of Pi, Time Traveler's Wife, The Birth of Venus
My parents, Max Ernst, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Jackie Robinson, Frank Miller, Mae West, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, Sarah Silverman, and all of my amazingly talented productive friends.