Literature, warm laundry, crafts, curls, music, dogs, NPR, coffee, Autumn, NPR with coffee in Autumn, Spring, donuts, beards, procrastinating, prehistoric man, crunching leaves, organizing kitchens, National Geographic, cuddling, parallel parking in one maneuver, hot baths, the silly things we say in our sleep, stretching, spiced wine, Quebec, and I actually really like school
Someone who's died and come back to life. Someone who's seen an alien, ghost, angel, etc. Maria Montessori, Sophia Hawthorne, Bjork, Louisa May Alcott. God.
Mew, Kashmir, Slowreader, Bjork, Erlend Oye, Superheroes, Regina Spektor, Rilo Kiley, Tahiti 80, Ryan Adams, Kings of Convenience, Nada Surf, Joanna Newsom, Snow Patrol, Phoenix, Feist, Rufus Wainwright, Goldfrapp, Reindeer Section, Chris Thile, Turin Brakes, Fiona Apple, Cursive, Michael Jackson
White Oleander, 80s teen movies like Better Off Dead and Sixteen Candles, Star Wars, Brokeback Mountain, I 3 Huckabees
The Cosby Show, Project Runway, Quantum Leap, Sports Night. But I try to stay away.
Maggie O'Farrell, White Oleander, 1984 and Brave New World, adolescent literature, some Paul Auster, Chronicles of Narnia, William Carlos William's fiction, Transcendentalism, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, Amy Tan, Harry Potter, Calvin and Hobbes, Shop Girl, Lolita, Life of Pi.
My mom's parents, and professional creative people (i.e. musicians, artists, writers, etc)