Roller derby. Reffing roller derby. Talking about roller derby. Thinking of clever roller derby monikers. Being a zebra. Soviet military hats. Going roller skating. Adolescent psychology. Researching cupcakes. Napping. Psychotropic medications. Brushing my teeth. Talking to animals. Baking cookies. Clear freeways. Shiny objects. Proper spelling and punctuation. Compulsive documentation. Frozen lemonade from 1988. Dirty looks. Dawdling. Doodling. Old cemeteries. Getting mail. Feeding ducks. Indecision. Sociology. Psychology. Hiatal hernias. Nostalgia for nothing. Procrastination. Making chicken noises. How Def Leppard got their backup vocals to sound like so many people. Feminism. Pictures of baked goods (looking or shooting). My couch. Yelling. Health care reform/universal health care. Birds. Vegetarian Chinese food. Poorly translated Japanese stationary. College radio.
Anyone associated with roller derby, Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block, smart people.
Balinese gamelan, Les Savy Fav, Justin Timberlake, Sleater-Kinney, Bauhaus, Mirah, Q And Not U, Andrew W.K., Scarnella, Delta Dart, Out Hud, The Smiths, The Stooges, Wolf Eyes, Frank Yankovic, really catchy pop songs
Ladies and Gentlemen: the Fabulous Stains, Bring It On, The Royal Tenenbaums, Mean Girls, The Cheerleaders, The Doom Generation, Heathers, Jackass the movie
The O.C. (season 1), The Simpsons, 24, Maury, Sealab 2021, Mythbusters, Good Eats
Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis), The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), Coming of Age in Mississippi (Anne Moody), The Sandman series (Neil Gaiman), Eats, Shoots and Leaves (Lynne Truss), Fer Shurr! How To Be A Valley Girl - Totally! (Mary Corey and Victoria Westermark, 1982), Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Joan Jett, FDR, my 3rd/4th grade teacher, Andrew W.K., people who do not have paper all over the place in which they live