people, endorphins, sleeping, movies, dancing, biking, reading, laughing, cats, music, concerts, new stuff, writing, fixing grammatical errors, art, globe trotting, crosswords, mangos, hot bubble tea with jellies, dialects, questions, finishing, "litter and it will hurt" signs.
uppers
music: sing-a-long and dancing tunes. rappers with british accents. it goes on. examples: abba, amadou and mariam, the arcade fire, architecture in helsinki, david bowie, broken social scene, cafe tacuba, carissa's wierd, matthew dear, ani difranco, feist, fleetwood mac, the go! team, hot chip, michael jackson, jay-z, kanye west, 80s madonna, metric, joni mitchell, mirah, modest mouse, pixies, royksopp, sonic youth, the shins, stars, tegan and sara, dar williams, yeah yeah yeahs.
adaptation, annie hall, being john malkovich, best in show, buffalo 66, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fargo, friends with money, grindhouse, harold and maude, hedwig and the angry inch, kill bills, knocked up, lovely and amazing, royal tennenbaums, rushmore, shortbus, stranger than fiction, volver, welcome to the dollhouse. almost anything with parker posey or catherine keener.
strangers with candy, grey's anatomy, desperate housewives
fun read alouds. some faves: random family, drop city, anything by irvine welsh, david sedaris, chuck palahniuk, zadie smith, hunter s. thompson, kurt vonnegut, truman capote, sylvia plath.
are everywhere.