reading, writing, eating, drinking, traveling, teaching, activism, martial arts, feminism, history, geography, political science, anthropology, sociology, needle point, reading the news, national marrow donor program, listening to the same crappy cd's over and over, finding new crappy cd's to listen to, dancing in my bathroom to my crappy cds, apples to apples, chai tea, green beans, whole wheat tortillas, fat free hot dogs, cookies, anything pumpkin flavored, raisons, broccoli, peter pan honey roasted peanutbutter, diet carbonated sugar water of the dr. pepper persuasion, almost anything with the pre-fix "tempura," the onion, kind people with dynamic minds and a healthy sense of humor about themselves, voting, when people snort when they laugh
philip pullman and the original cast of designing women
ani difranco, bjork, tori amos, the pixies, the streets, violent femmes, beck, alix olsen, belle and sebastion, bitch and animal, neutral milk hotel, radiohead, the butchies, modest mouse, the beatles, portishead, the postal service, arto lindsey, andrew bird, patrice pike, utah phillips, patsy cline, nina simone, peaches, blue october, artic monkeys, soul coughing, singing monks, iron and wine, fiona apple, kosheen, le tigre, flaming lips, dresden dolls, the mars volta, tegan and sara
welcome to the doll house, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, anything wes anderson, anything christopher guest, crounching tiger hidden dragon, confessions of a dangerous mind, strictly ballroom, dead poets society, bowling for columbine, movies where english people fall in love, run lola run, the princess and the warrior, high fidelity, better off dead, the cider house rules, amalie, napolean dynamite, the big lebowski, snatch, slc punk!, harold and maud, movies filled with witty banter between old southern ladies
i don't admit to liking television except perhaps the daily show with jon stewart and the news hour with jim lehrer. i certainly don't care for such tripe as the L word, law and order, or history's mysteries. no way jose.
_33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Women's History_ edited by Tonya Bolden, _Manifesta_ by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, _A Treasury of Great American Scandals_, and _A Treasury of Royal Scandals_ by Michael Farquhar, _Harry Potter_, _His Dark Materials_ by Philip Pullman, anything and everything by David Sedaris, _Artemis Fowel_ by Eoin Colfer, _The Winds of War_, and _War and Remembrance_ by Herman Wouk, Allen Ginsberg Selected Poems 1947-1995, _A Bad Case of the Stripes_ by David Shannon, _When Everybody Wore a Hat_ by William Steig, _Somethings are Scary_ by Florence Parry Heide, _Beyond Belief_ by Elaine Pagels, _The Story of B_ by Daniel Quinn, _The Handmaid's Tale_ by Margaret Atwood, _A Century of Women_ by Sheila Rowbotham, _Sophie's World_ by Jostein Gaardner, _A Series of Unfortunate Events_ by Lemony Snicket...
eleanor roosevelt