Writing, Burlesque, Color Photography, Discovery Center Winter Recital and Buffet, Performance Art, Ashley, Reading, Oceans, BBQs, Music, Camping, Hot Arms, Cooking, Traveling, Dressing up Like A Baton Twirling Instructor, Sledding, Making my House look like a Nature Museum and/or Seafood Restaurant, Jolene and Joyce, Ballet, Soap, Veins, Apples to Apples, Writing Words on Paper, Creating Spaces, Getting Cool Stuff in the Mail, Magazines, Dresses, Hot Weather, Drinks with Straws, Desserts With Bananas, Mix Tapes, Fresca, Black, Sleep, Bales of Hay, Danger, Not Biting my Fingernails, Fake PowerPoint Presentations, Tropical Starburst Jellybeans.
John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, Justin Timberlake's back up dancers, writers, artists, performers, campers, girls and bois with hot arms, people with dachshund farms, anyone that lives near the ocean, someone with an air conditioner in their car.
Favorites from 2006 are: Spank Rock, Girltalk, The Postal Service, Blondie, Stevie Nicks, TV on the Radio, Imogen Heap, The Everybody Fields, Citizen Cope, John Prine, The Gossip, Justin Timberlake, and Busy's Dick in the Box remix. So far, in 2007, I am loving my dad's camp jams, "LoveStoned"- the good part, still listen to Citizen Cope A LOT but don't cry as much while doing so, the soundtrack to Perfume, "Magnificent"- Justin Martin's mix, even though I am SO late on that one, Amy Winehouse is good, The Dreadful Snakes are my new favorite bluegrass band, I rediscovered the Howard Jones song I listened to on the way to my high school graduation, and I can't get enough of Timbaland.
Heathers, Oldboy, Orlando, Election, True Romance, Flirting With Disaster, Flashdance, Coming to America, Pulp Fiction, Secretary, Lonesome Dove, Amelie, The Krays, Spartacus, Spanglish, Whale Rider, Blue Crush, Lost in Translation, Pecker, Lady in White.
Lost, The L Word, Greys Anatomy, House, Project Runway, Best Week Ever, ANTM.
Lots... Some of my favorites are: Mortified, Perfume, Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, The Virgin Suicides, Birds of America, The Great Fire of London, Middlesex, Julie and Julia, The Things They Carried, Some Instructions..., The Human Country, The Botany of Desire, Clumsy, Henry and June, Miss Nelson is Missing, Geek Love, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Naked, Lolita, Oulipo Texts, Bastard out of Carolina, Life: A User's Manual, Any Shirley Jackson Short Stories, Richard Scary Children's Books, Tuck Everlasting, This is Not a Novel, The Pillow Book, Partly Cloudy Patriot, Servants of the Map, The Poisonwood Bible, Travel Writing, A Girl Named Zippy, Oranges Aren't the Only Fruit, Vanity Fair magazine articles....
Ashley, writers that finish books, my mom, Julie Atlas Muz, Nabokov, Tim O'Brien, John Waters, David Alvarado, Prince, my good friends, Sophie Calle, Sam Taylor Wood, Modigliani, Wolfgang Tillmans, some too embarrassing to mention, and Hawaii.