Jesus, reading, painting, writing, sometimes skipping school, working at daycare, running very short distances, walking, enjoying nature, eating MEAT, being a bit of a tease, being un-single, being trite, going to Civil War reinactments, sewing costumes and clothes for my friends, acting, crocheting, knitting, (in essence, practicing to be a grandma).
Me, two years from now.
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TMBG, Gillian Welch, Depeche Mode, Ted Leo & The Pharmcists, Rufus Wainwright, Beck, Mysterious Sailor, The Decemberists, Ben Folds and/or Five, Journey, Turin Brakes, Boston, Beatles, The Presidents, Leo Kottke, Third Day, Cat Stevens, Michelle Tumes, Tori Amos, U2, Weird Al, Pete Yorn, Newsboys, Flaming Lips, Ben Kweller, Jimmy Eat World, Sigur Ros, The Doors, Queen, Damien Rice, Jamie Cullum, BURKE, Rolling Stones, Irish Rovers, Ray Charles, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Corky and the Juicepigs, Radiohead, Danger Doom, etc. etc.
Amelie, Billy Elliot, Princess Bride, Love Actually (awww), The Apartment, It Should Happen to You, MST3K the Movie, Harold and Maude, Cabaret, 12 Monkeys, Wrath of Khan, Much Ado About Nothing, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Animal House, 9 to 5, Goonies, The Life Aquatic, all things Bill and Ted, Loaded Weapon 1, etc.
MST3K, Conan O'Brien, The Short List, SNL, Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Arrested Development, Kids in the Hall, Blackadder, Strangers with Candy, What Not To Wear, Extreme Makeover Home Edition (a tear-jerker every time!), Little Britain, Cadfael, Wooster & Jeeves, Scrubs etc.
Bone, Blankets, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Inhumans (best graphic novel I have ever read), the Bible, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hobbit, Ceremony, The Gates of Zion (and the Zion series), Silas Marner, Of Mice and Men, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Assassination Vacation, WIGFIELD, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The Idiot Girl's Action Adventure Club.
My mom (for holding the same crap-job for 30 years without completely snapping) and my dad (for having a hand in saving so many lives over those 25 years); Mark and Tif. BUD AUSTIN.