Music, friends, travel, Audrey Hepburn films, politics, Carolina basketball, Marilyn Monroe, charity, the color green, art, beer and wine (I'm a connisseur), finance, astrology, Dallas Mavericks, good food, NPR, dimples, fashion, relationships belonging to other people, Led Zeppelin, eating out, the profession of law, unlawful activities, bartending, useless information, pool, JJ (my old car), Sophie (my new car), AJ & Tinkerbell & Libby (my dogs), dirty water that moves in waves or clear water that sits perfectly still but no dirty water that sits still, perfect kisses, manners, pedicures, tall skinny boys with dark hair and blue eyes, sushi, lillies and pink roses, a Ketel One and grapefruit, Stoli Strasberi and unsweet iced tea, ballet (to watch, not to do), Starbucks coffee ice cream, kissing in rose gardens, road trips, my old time soulmate kind of friends...
"I want everyone else I meet in the whole world to like me, except the people I've already met, handled, found inconsequential, and forgot about." -Joseph Heller
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, Fugees, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Al Green, Pink Floyd, Fiona Apple's "Tidal", The Roots, Pharoah Monch, The Go Go's, Talib Kweli, Common, Mos Def, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, Outkast, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Simon & Garfunkle, TuPac, Gang Starr, Guns N Roses, Funkmaster Flex, Lovage, Counting Crows, Gorillaz, Queen, The Strokes, Kylie Minogue, Marvin Gaye, Prince, Notorious BIG, Jay-Z, old school hip hop, Fleetwood Mac, especially Stevie Nicks, Elton John, Incubus, The Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Etta James, Christina Aguilera (yeah, I like her), the Commodores, Louis Armstrong, Gang of Four, Ani DiFranco, The Doors, Billy Holiday, The Who, Dave Matthews Band, Aerosmith, Oasis, The Allman Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Joss Stone, EPMD, Social Distortion, Alanis Morrisette's "Jagged Little Pill", Nirvana, Ben Harper, Madonna, Nas, Dr. Dre's "Chronic 2001", Inflowential, Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, Maroon 5, Dixie Chicks, Panic! at the Disco, The Cure, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Blondie, David Bowie, Jurassic Five, PJ Harvey, Jack Johnson, Heart, Gnarles Barkley, Joni Mitchell, Barenaked Ladies, The Strokes, John Legend, The Charlie Daniels Band, Dialated Peoples, Atmosphere, The Pretenders, Jet, No Doubt, Dashboard Confessional, Nickle Creek, the Killers, Zero 7, Norah Jones, and Justin Warfield...
Almost Famous, Belly, Roman Holiday, The Usual Suspects, anything by Kevin Smith, Pride & Prejudice, High Fidelity, Say Anything, Love and Basketball, Dazed and Confused, Secretary, The Breakfast Club, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade, Love Actually, Dangerous Liasons, Reservoir Dogs, About A Boy, Fight Club, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Pelican Brief, Ocean's Eleven, Life as a House, the Smokers, Girl, Bowling for Colombine, L.A. Confidential, 25th Hour, Death to Smoochy, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Six Degrees of Separation, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Sideways, Closer, Garden State, Crash, Shopgirl, Goodnight and Good Luck, Thank You for Smoking, The Constant Gardener, the Squid and the Whale, Marie Antoinette
Law & Order SVU and Criminal Intent, Best Week Ever, Weeds, The Daily Show, Def Poetry, The Colbert Report, American Idol, Entourage, Sex and the City, General Hospital and All My Children (get off me, I need my stories), American Justice, anything on the History Channel, Cold Case Files, Family Guy, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Iron Chef, Gilmore Girls, Prison Break, One Tree Hill, anything on E!, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Medium, House, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Closer, The Soup (I'm a TiVo junkie)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Little Woman by Louisa M. Alcott, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Matilda and The BFG by Roald Dahl, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, all the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling, The Runaway Jury by John Grisham (book is so much better than the movie), Kiss the Girls by James Patterson (again, read the book), The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, Stupid White Men by Michael Moore, New Rules by Bill Maher, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, anything Shakespeare, gotta give props to "US Weekly" and "Entertainment Weekly", - two of several guilty pleasures.
People who travel the world...people who mean what they say and stick to their words...people who love me in spite of my neurosis...people who are loyal...people who accomplish their goals...people who write beautiful music...and Tom Ford.