Art, Theatre, Europe, Music, Jack Daniels, Guns (yeah, i know), Politics, Baseball (def. a Yankees fan), Old Houses, Dancing, Readin' and Writin', Eating sushi and soybeans and seaweed and cheesecake, Proof-reading Papers, Singing at top volume, Travelling, Prancing, Photography, Annoying my family as much as is humanly possible, Shopping outdoors when it's freezing out, Theme Parties, Making lists, Not having my luggage get lost when I fly places, Dressing up to go out, Coming up with new people to dislike with passion,
My dad told me not to talk to strangers when I was little. That has worked out pretty well for me.
A little of everything- Ryan Adams is the current fave...also Beck. coltrane, ellington, holiday, ella, armstrong...i love love love jazz (esp. old recordings), also like Ani DiFranco, Kanye, Esoteric & 7L, Damien Rice, Outkast, Less Than Jake, Sublime, Postal Service, Letters to Cleo, B.B King, Dixie Chicks, Jurassic 5, Patty Griffin, Neko Case, Tift Merrit, Devendra Banhart, Beastie Boys, Alison Krauss, Eartha Kitt, Dropkick Murphys, Duran Duran, Black Crowes, Aimee Mann, The Decemberists, Ben Kweller, Emmylou Harris, Groove Armada, Johnny Cash, The soundtrack to the movie I AM SAM is amazing, Bela Fleck, Elliot Smith, Madonna, Patsy Cline, Kevin Welch, Punjabi, David Grey, NAS (and i love that song he does with his dad, Olu Dara...) Gloria Estefan, I have a strange Gram Parsons obsession, Steve Earl, Beth Orton, Ben Harper, Alejandro Escovedo, The Byrds, The Shins, Julie Roberts, Bob Dylan, Christina Aguilera (she's talented!), Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Liz Phair (her old stuff, the new album sucks), Cassandra Wilson, Show Tunes of course (i'm a theatre major!), Bare Jr., Willie Nelson...
I love documentaries. Also, movies about baseball, james bond, and people making it in show business. also Hustle and Flow, Bonnie and Clyde, In America, Bringing Up Baby, Clueless, Pretty Woman, My Cousin Vinny, Walk the Line, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, City of God, Princess Bride, Casablanca, A Touch of Evil, All About My Mother, Key Largo, A La Mode, Chocolat, The Sandlot, Steel Magnolias, Kill Bill, All About Eve, Sixteen Candles...
Law and Order, Murder She Wrote, CSI, Arrested Development, Project Runway, Top Chef, Big Love, Mad Men, The office, Extras
The Passion Dream Book, Love in the Time of Cholera, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Hedda Gabler, DaVinci Code, Easy Rider Raging Bull, Atlas Shrugged, No Exit, The Ethical Function of Architecture, The Fountainhead, The Shadow of the Wind, Eva Luna, Yo!, Atlas Shrugged, Plays by Tony Kushner and Tennessee Williams and Christopher Durang and of course Shakespeare, Anything by Carl Hiassen or Tim Dorsey or Chuck Palahniuk or Edward Abbey, The poetry of Langston Hughes and Anne Sexton and Jack Kerouac i really love books.
My little brother, Darren.