deconstruction, volleyball, Funyuns, -isms (realism vs. formalism, postmodernism, [post]structuralism, neoclassicism), non sequitirs and nonsense, randomness, objective vs. subjective truth, buying novels that I'll never read, 1-2 stepping, British-style crosswords
Megan Mullally, Kristen Bell, Tony Kushner, Ian McEwan, Joan Allen, Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, the writers of Veronica Mars, a blue-ringed octopus
Fiona Apple, Dandy Warhols, Propellerheads
You Can Count On Me, Casablanca, In The Bedroom, Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, The Truman Show, American Beauty, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Clueless, Mystic River, LOTR trilogy, Signs, The Village (shut up), Minority Report, The Deep End, Open Hearts, Pride & Prejudice, Sunset Boulevard, Being John Malkovich
Veronica Mars (a.k.a. Vagina Mars, a.k.a. Bubonica SARs, a.k.a. Harmonica Stars)
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, Atonement by Ian McEwan, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg, Hearts In Atlantis by Stephen King, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Mystic River by Dennis Lehane, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald