things that make me especially happy:
animals, shiny stuff, colorful stuff, halloween, piercings, tattoos, hair dye, cirque du soleil, nyc, Broadway musicals, arts and crafts, the arts (experiencing and participating in art, music, dance, theatre), soda, playgrounds w/ big-people swings, sugar (especially in the form of candy), only having 1 semester left until I graduate from college
hobbies:
making jewelry, singing, dancing
intellectual crap:
reading, writing, psychology, astronomy, film, religious studies
cartoon characters I love:
the cheshire cat, tweety, eeyore, yoshi
miscellaneous:
collecting soda tabs for no reason in particular except i want to, christmas lights at all times of the year, new zealand, blowing bubbles, fireworks and other explosive/fiery spectacles
friendly, vibrant ppl that are easy to talk to, open-minded, honest, and don't generally suck.
And, since I'm a child of pop culture:
Charlie Kauffman. Anne Rice. Stephen King.
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If they weren't dead (sniff):
Sylvia Plath. J.R.R. Tolkien.
my preferences change depending on my mood:
instrumental scores to movies. theme songs. Disney musicals.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Deviations Project.
Les Miserables. Wicked. Phantom of the Opera. West Side Story. Fiddler on the Roof. Cabaret. Annie.
System of a Down. Smashing Pumpkins. Stabbing Westward.
Beatles. Beach Boys. Motown.
American Beauty. Fight Club. Dead Poets Society. Dogma. What the Bleep Do We Know.
The Royal Tenenbaums. Punch-Drunk Love. Adaptation. Ghost World.
Girl, Interrupted. Good Will Hunting.
The Little Mermaid. The Lion King. Madagascar.
The Fellowship of the Ring. Peter Pan (1954 televised Broadway version). The Wizard of Oz. Forrest Gump. Edward Scissorhands. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.
SLC Punk. Dazed and Confused. Now and Then.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.
Party of Five.
Friends.
Sex and the City.
Desperate Housewives.
The Colbert Report
The Lord of the Rings.
The Bell Jar.
Demian.
The Queen of the Damned. Interview with the Vampire.
Catcher in the Rye.
Catch-22. Stepping on the Cracks.