General mayhem and reading quietly.
Here is a neat poem with my name in it:
Experience
by Aline Kilmer
Deborah danced, when she was two, As buttercups and daffodils do; Spirited, frail, naively bold, Her hair a ruffled crest of gold, And whenever she spoke her voice went singing Like water up from a fountain springing.
But now her step is quiet and slow; She walks the way primroses go; Her hair is yellow instead of gilt, Her voice is losing its lovely lilt, And in place of her wild, delightful ways A quaint precision rules her days.
For Deborah now is three, and oh, She knows so much that she did not know.
Roald Dahl
Louis Pasteur
Frank Black
Audrey Hepburn
Pope John Paul II
Myself in another dimension
(you know, the one where I look the same but I'm wearing a cowboy hat)
Music separates man from beast (or: man from less interesting man)
and
They Might Be Giants
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/teaser/
Roman Holiday
My Fair Lady
Guys & Dolls
Pretty Woman (yes, it has destroyed a generation of innocent girls by glamourizing prostitution...
I can't help but love it)
From Hell
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Old Christmas cartoons (such as "Somewhere in Dreamland" or "Christmas Comes but Once a Year")
...other feel good movies
...other movies with a nightmarish and evil quality
...musicals (which incorporate both of those elements)
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/teaser/
Futurama!!!!!
Food network- esp. Iron Chef
The Simpsons
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Private Altars-by Katherine Mosby
Zorba the Greek-by Nikos Kazantzakis
Pnin-by Vladmir Nabokov
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory-by Roald Dahl
My Uncle Oswald-by Roald Dahl
A Hero of Our Time-by Mikhail Lermontov
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/teaser/
Theodor Seuss Geisel
My siblings
My darling nephew, Alexander
Audrey Hepburn