Music, movies, shopping (I love vintage handbags), writing, the beach, church, fashion
New friends, old friends, music lovers
I love all types of music: Beck, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Sigur Ros, Flaming Lips, PJ Harvey, Mars Volta, Foo Fighters, Beth Orton, Sonic Youth, Alicia Keys, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Yamin, Lily Allen, Jill Scott, Bjork, Modest Mouse, Doves, Supergrass, The Pixies, Grandaddy, Death Cab for Cutie, Incubus, Neil Young, Israel and New Breed, Corinne Bailey Rae, etc. Some of my 80's favorites: The Go-Go's, The Police, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Psychedelic Furs, Echo and the Bunnymen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Thompson Twins, The English Beat, Madness, Missing Persons, The Cars, X, Duran Duran, Men at Work, Oingo Boingo, Devo, New Order... oh too many to name! Oh and Inxs and... Other all time favorites are The Beatles (GREATEST OF ALL TIME!), Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, R.E.M., Guns and Roses, The Cult, Soundgarden, Al Green, Sade, Janis Joplin... This could go on forever
Some of my favorite rock and roll films: A Hard Day's Night, The Commitments, Once, Almost Famous, School of Rock, This Is Spinal Tap. Among my other favorites: The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, The Apostle, The Devil Wears Prada, Lost in Translation, La Vie En Rose, Little Miss Sunshine, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Napoleon Dynamite, The Virgin Suicides, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, A Christmas Story, About Schmidt, Sideways, Next Stop Wonderland, Swingers, The Truman Show, The Wedding Singer, The Bad News Bears (the original version), When Harry Met Sally, Best in Show, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Ghost World, Princess Diaries, Enchanted, Hairspray, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Chicago, Dreamgirls, Singin' in the Rain, Manhattan, Breakfast at Tiffany's, all of the John Hughes 80's teen films, 13 Going on 30, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, The Sixth Sense, The Exorcist (scariest movie of all time for me), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original), Blair Witch Project, Carrie, Halloween and many more
Do I really like this much reality t.v.?? American Idol (Jason C., Melinda, Elliott, Bo, Fantasia and Clay), So You Think You Can Dance, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, What Not to Wear, The Apprentice, Ugly Betty, House, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Oprah, Balanced Living (my church!). Okay, I'll admit it, All My Children. I also have some all time classic favorites but that could take a while. And of course, Daria!
The Bible, The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (Tim Burton's collection of fables), The Purpose Driven Life, Girl Interrupted, Valley of the Dolls, Animal Farm, Flowers for Algernon, 12 Angry Men, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, all the Judy Blume and S.E. Hinton books I read as a kid, various rock 'n roll bios, and last but not least, Lucky Magazine :)
God and my parents