sunshine, reading, fishing!, riding my bike, walking on the beach and looking for cool rocks, hula-hooping, writing, art, seeing movies and live music, hanging out with my nephews/nieces/any little kid around, road trips and other things that are impossible where i live, listening to music, making movies, swimming, dance fights . . .
fellow hula-hoopers. people who like windup toys. people who fake-orgasm as they play frisbee. anyone who likes kale. non-serious bikers (this is important--if you have those biking shorts and get annoyed with other bikers who aren't as fast, leave my page to never return). people who laughed thru "lady in the water". animal-movie haters. people who do things that scare them. former punk rockers. writers.
johnny cash, jesse sykes & the sweet hereafter, american analog set, andrew bird, bright eyes, nick cave, three-legged mule, the shins, death cab for cutie, leonard cohen, cat power, the eels, sigur ros, the black keys, jim white, elliot smith, clap your hands say yeah!, arcade fire, the pixies, rolling stones, jimmy cliff, etta james, radiohead, nina simone, the decemberists, van morrison, bob marley, the handsome family, wilco, the submarines, the concretes, manu chao, neil young, the kinks, gram parsons, postal service, bob dylan, iron + wine, keren ann, otis redding, sly and the family stone, marvin gaye, the temptations, aqueduct, ugly casanova, the books, ratatat, cat stevens, the misfits, yeah yeah yeahs, emmylou harris, kruder dorfmeister, mint royale, m. ward, the beatles, gorillaz, brazilian girls, band of horses, yo la tengo, mugison, tupac.
zombie movies, Chuck & Buck, Blazing Saddles, horror movies, Delicatessen, Brazil, Baraka, documentaries, movies where all the main characters die.
seinfeld, simpsons, CSI, family guy, arrested development, adult swim. i really like the shows on TLC about dwarfism or super-fat people.
anything by Haruki Murakami (esp Wind Up Bird Chronicle), James Salter, Willa Cather, Gunter Grass, Hans Christian Andersen, Hemingway, Lawrence Durrell, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, Carson McCullers, Virginia Woolf, Ouspensky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Peter Gay, Jonathon Safran Foer, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Coetzee, Neitzche, Homer, Ovid, Roald Dahl, Upton Sinclair, Sherman Alexie, Peter Mathiessen. and Oliver Sacks is the SHIT.cosmological books, native american histories, ethnobotany/ethnopharmacology texts, sociological texts ("Hooked" is great), most of the feature articles printed in the New Yorker . . .
anybody who gets their writing published, my dad, my sisters, my mom, my boss. people who buck the system. people who do things that others say they can't do. eccentrics, fuckups, misfits. writers, thinkers, and lately, fishermen.