cartoons.funny or interesting voices.theater. music. charm. motorcycles. being active in mind and body. people who surprise me. not people who like to tickle me.
health nuts. piano players (specifically very experienced uber-cool male ones for the lounge act), jazz musicians,photographers who want to "take me under their wing", people involved in the animation industry. Will you teach me how to cook????
Bjork, Billie Holiday, Concrete Blonde, Leonard Cohen, Erin Mckeown, Huey Lewis and the News, Sam Phillips, Sugarcubes, Beck, Sam D. Robertson, this Strawberry girl ain't half bad, GASTANK, Leslie Feist, Stars, Common, Eryka Badu, Jill Scott, Etta James, The Push Stars, Cowboy Junkies, Jolie Holland is AMAZING. In general I like sad songs with good lyrics and really haunting female vocalists or cute muppety stuff. Also getting into Lupe Fiasco. He's good.
All the Christopher Guest stuff, When Harry Met Sally, Central Station, Jamon Jamon, Sex and Lucia, Dave Chappelle's Block Party
the trashier the better. So excited for Rock of Love II! (that should sum it all up in a little nutshell for you. The Office rocks my world.
Anais Nin, non-fiction non-fiction non-fiction (health and alternative healing are favorite topics), Mary Gaitskill, Ted Conover, Haruki Murakami,Neruda (that charming sexist bastard), Vonnegut to the max. Paolo Coehlo recently changed my life.
my great Grandfather, people who are themselves anytime anywhere, those who get through times of struggle with humor and grace...