Cracking wise, foreign languages/cultures, guitars, the color green, animal welfare, Middle Eastern dance, Talk radio, being vague and cryptic, bitch sessions, black and white pictures, boobies, brightly-colored extra-sticky post-it notes, butch brunettes, caffeine, calling it art, campy horror films, cartoon violence, chewing on things, driving other people's cars, drug-induced psychotic meandering, flat stummies, flawed logic, getting stuff for free, giving in to weakness, holding grudges, hollywood lesbians, horribly cheesie reenactments, ibuprofen, keeping it to myself, kicking my own ass, leaving before it's over, lighters, lipstick, making people uncomfortable, nightmares, obsessing over new things, overanalyzation, poking people with things, porn from the 70s, pretending to believe you, pretending to work, provoking belligerent responses, sarcasm, selective memory, poets, spreading rumours about myself, talking shit about you, tattoos, telling people everything's fine, the eff-dash-dash-dash word, wading through the bullshit, writing on my arms, being evasive xx
Animated people
Music of all forms: Remy Zero, The Beatles, Carly Simon, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, Moby, Sigur Ros, Alison Krauss, Bright Eyes, Damien Rice, Madeline Peyroux, Dolly Parton, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Sinead O'Connor, Miles Davis, BBking, Nat King Cole, Bjork, Nina Simone, Oasis, Kings of Leon, Verve, Kelly Osbourne, Ry Cooder, Black Eyed Peas, Bif Naked, Azure Ray, Beck, Basement Jaxx, Jeff Buckley, Evanescence, Anastacia, Depeche Mode, Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik, Bob Marley, Ray Charles, Nusrat F. Ali Khan, Amos Lee, Anna Vissi, Andy Stochansky, Alizee, Ali Farka Toure, Air, Aimee Mann, 3Doors Down, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, John Legend, Lisa Loeb, David Bryne, Marisa Monte, Ray Peterson, The Vines, The Veils, Sleater Kinney, Kaiser Chiefs, Natasha Bedingfield, Shelby Lynne, Nick Drake, Jamelia, Coldplay, The Cranberries, Strunz & Farah, Frou Frou, Blur, Tatu, Enya, Hakim, E.S. Posthumus, just to name a few!
In no preferential order: Finding Nemo, Memento, Audrey Tautou movies, The Motorcycle Diaries, Before Sunrise, Sundance, M. Night Shyamalan movies, Closer, What the Bleep! do we know, American Beauty, The Pianist, Secret Garden, Garden State, Natalie Portman movies, Se7en, In America, Gandhi, Lock, Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels, Smultronstället, The Station Agent, The Secret Window, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monsoon Wedding, Snatch, Sixteen Candles, City of Angels, The Sea Inside, The Gods Must be Crazy, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Butterfly Effect, Anything foriegn, and all those past movies I don't remember right now
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Eastenders, Dexter, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Bigbang theory
Lately, anything by Alice Sebold! Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates, Osho, April Witch, White Teeth, H.G.T.G, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, The Course of Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte, Watership Down by Richard Adams, Franny & Zooey by J.D; as well as his many short stories (A perfect day for Bananafish), Ray Bradbury, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, The Tao of Pooh, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Leo Tolstoy, Howl by Allen Ginsberg, There's No such Place as far away and Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, Vanity Fair by William M. Thackeray, George Carlin, Kafka, Calvin and Hobbs cartoon collections of Bill Watterson, Far Side cartoon collections of Gary Larson, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Poetry of Emily Dickenson, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman..., Mags: Bitch, Colors, Ms Magazine. Isn't it quite relieving, and yet melancholy, when, after reading at great length, you turn a page to meet the back cover?