travel, writing, monkeys v. mountain gorillas, history, design of every last speck in existence, twisting fragile minds, eating tons of Mediterranean foods/sushi, extended-stays in Italy, Etruscans, gypsies, Costa del Sol gypsies who tell me I 'was' Etruscan, staring down gypsies with an 'i have nothing for you' smile and knowing they can translate eyeballs, flamenco, dancingohyesdancing, forced waltzing, vinegar AND honey (total madness), marveling over how beautiful people are, marveling over how ugly they may choose to be, not eating animals either cute or intelligent (except pigmeat, sorry pigs! - you no wanna me eat you, you no taste-a so good), quilting brain patterns (like I can quilt, oh hoot hoot), avoiding domestication, and duck cheeks
• whoever finds Imhotep's sarcophagus• recovers a viable sample of Imhotep's DNA• will fertilize my sweet yet finicky ovum with said DNA so I can• then raise said freakily fantabulous fetus to adulthood
Chopin, Shostakovich, Mahler, Rufus Wainwright, Bright Eyes, Magnetic Fields, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughn, White Stripes, Louis XIV, Kings of Leon, Calla, Tom Waits, Decemberists, some Brazilian dandies, waltzes, and the sound of muffled screams - which can be surprisingly musical ..
Dogville, Borat, Antonia's Line, Dangerous Beauty, Color Purple, The Science of Sleep, Moulin Rouge, Amelie, Frida, Sense and Sensibility, Quills, Zoolander, Shawn of the Dead, Little Miss Sunshine, Farinelli, Mulan, Gille's Wife (la femme de gilles), You Me & Everyone We Know, Edward Scissorhands, pretty much anything with Emma Thompson in it, Love Actually (shut. up.)
Stella (still in denial that it's gone) and the Daily Show on Comedy Central, Ali G. Show, Family Guy, stuff on Discovery, National Geographic, total nerd things - particularly regarding evolution, paleontology and archaeology + Sopranos and The Office
Mostly I find passages or sentences I adore and nothing more; otherwise, stuff by Dostoyevsky, Umberto Eco, Margaret Atwood, Kate Atchinson, Jonathan Carroll, Toni Morrison, Hawthorne (we understand each other), Neil Gaiman, and various poets
None, personally. No one has ever saved me, so there. Otherwise, there are many people I admire, especially people with patience. And who do things like actually improve the world. This means the better portion of our government's decision-makers are my antiheroes.