My dog. Pearl Jam. Baseball and the Red Sox. Pizza. Good music. Organic food. Harry Potter. The Flying Elf. Tetris. Star Wars. Johnny Depp. Yoga. Reading. Acupuncture. Converse All-Stars. Monopoly, Clue, Trivial Pursuit, and Scrabble. Tattoos. Pro-Choice. HomeStarRunner and StrongBad e-mails. Walking. Driving. Wiffle Ball. TV commercials that employ puppies to sell their products. Bad jokes. Surveys. Outlet shopping. The White Mountains. Ken Follett novels. Lists of things in chronological, sequential, alphabetical, or numerical order, especially if there's 100 of them.
I've tried to think of a deep, meaningful answer to this question, regardless of space and time. I feel like I should say something profound, like Mahatma Gandhi, but that just doesn't seem correct -- meaning no offense, of course, to Gandhi. Or maybe Virginia Dare, who was the first child born in the first English settlement in the "New World." Why? Why not. Oddly enough, her birthday was August 18, 1587, and more children are born in August than any other month of the year. Then I think of all the music I've missed out, simply because I wasn't born soon enough, so I could add Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison to this list. I could also add Kurt Cobain, to complete the "27 Club." Then there's the music that I love so much now, Pearl Jam, so I'd be a fool not to put Eddie, Stone, Jeff, Mike, Matt, and Boom on this list. And for good measure, Johnny Depp. I've realized my meaningful response is taking on a more wistful tone... Sorry. In all honesty, I'd like to meet a friendly someone who's been there, done that, and has some wise words of guidance, but won't spoil the ending for me. And I'd like to find those friends I've lost, and hear their stories.
..... Pearl Jam. Social Distortion. Brandi Carlile. Post Stardom Depression. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Cary Brothers. Tegan & Sara. Katy Perry. Garbage. Garden State soundtrack. Shawn Mullins. Eric Clapton. Cream. Tori Amos. Weezer. Black Crowes. Jeff Buckley. Missy Higgins. Pink Floyd. Led Zep. Janis Joplin. Jimi Hendrix. The Doors. SRV. Martin Sexton. Kyle Shiver. Joshua Radin. Ingrid Michaelson. Squeeze. Counting Crows. Snow Patrol. LemonHeads. Michael Hedges. Juliana Hatfield. The Postal Service. The Clash. The Ramones. Green Day. INXS. Kate Voegele. Meiko.
... The Crow. Star Wars. Pirates of the Caribbean, and just about any other Johnny Depp movie, including Edward Scissorhands, Cry Baby, From Hell, Benny & Joon, Dead Man, and Sleepy Hollow. Singles. Garden State. Juno. Twister. Signs. Bull Durham. V for Vendetta. Grosse Point Blank. Better Off Dead. High Fidelity. Boondock Saints. Dazed and Confused. Office Space. Run Lola, Run. 10 Things I Hate About You. SLC Punk. Empire Records. PCU. Big Fish. The Royal Tennenbaums. The Goonies. Sixteen Candles.
. Grey's Anatomy. One Tree Hill. Scrubs. Sex & The City. NewsRadio. Buffy. Kids In The Hall. Dexter. Futurama. Family Guy. Robot Chicken. ATHF. America's Next Top Model. Most anything on the Discovery Channel.
Harry Potter. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. John Grogan - Marley and Me. JRR Tolkein - The Lord of the Rings. Richard Adams - Watership Down. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity. Thoreau - Walden. Dean Koontz - Watchers; Odd Thomas series. Jean Donaldson - The Culture Clash. Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume II. P.J. Tracy - Monkeewrench; Live Bait; Dead Run. Dan Brown - Angels & Demons; The DaVinci Code. Nearly all books written by Ken Follett. The Masie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. The Spenser, Sunny Randall, and Jesse Stone books, all by Robert B. Parker.
Hermione Granger and Annie Savoy.