Books, Movies, Music, reading, writing, running, karaoke, people's weird habits, social order, social disorder, gym culture, bookstore culture, culture culture, Japanese, all things Japanese related, U.S. foreign relations botch jobs, education, alternate realities, emotional realities, ghost stories, metaphors and similes, also smiles.
The Buddha, Jesus Christ, Marguerite Duras, Isak Dinesen, Marilyn Monroe, J.D. Salinger, Lao Tzu, Haruki Murakami, Matthew Barney, Hannah Arendt, Einstein, George Washington, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Jeanette Winterson, Kurt Vonnegut. Geniuses, leaders, lords and ladies, people who create.
Rufus Wainwright, Asian Kung Fu Generation, The Brilliant Green, Utada Hikaru, Tori Amos, REM, Aimee Mann, Carissa's Weird, Radiohead, Neko Case, The Magnetic Fields, The Pixies, Janet Jackson, The Cranberries, Tracy Chapman, Sufjan Stevens, Placebo, Over the Rhine, The Crissie McCree Band, Dido, Sarah McLachlan, Death Cab for Cutie, The Bravery, Joni Mitchell, The Flaming Lips, BJ O'Malley
Muriel's Wedding, Kamikaze Girls, Donnie Darko, Amelie, Bridget Jones' Diary (shut up), The Velvet Goldmine, The Piano, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, After Life, Nobody Knows, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Strangers With Candy, Lost in Translation, Shaun of the Dead, Why We Fight, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Waiting for Guffman, Little Children, Strangers on a Train
I like the Strangers With Candy Series, the first season of Queer as Folk, and some episodes of Sex in the City. Also, Heroes. But all in all, I'm not the target audience for television.
Kelly Link: Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners; Jonathan Lethem: Girl in Landscape, Amnesia Moon, The Wall of the Eye, the Wall of the Sky; Aimee Bender: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Willful Creatures; Judy Budnitz: If I Told You Once; Kevin Brockmeier: The Truth About Celia, Things That Fall From the Sky; Toni Morrison: Beloved, Jazz, Sula; Marguerite Duras: The Lover; Isak Dinesen: Winter Tales, Seven Gothic Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny; Alan Deniro: Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead; Jeffrey Ford: The Girl in the Glass; Carol Emshwiller: The Start of the End of it All; Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass; Kafka: The Sons; Karen Joy Fowler: The Jane Austen Book Club, Sarah Canary, Artificial Things, Black Glass; Ursula LeGuin: Four Ways to Forgiveness, The Left Hand of Darkness; John Crowley: Little Big, Engine Summer; Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, and The Life of the Mind; Louise Erdrich: Tracks; Ben Rice: Pobby and Dingan; Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle
People who create, people who try to leave the world a better place than how they found it, people who give a damn.