My motorcycle (and the other 6 I've owned in the past)...Traveling around the world (lived in Ireland, lived in Mexico, set foot on the soil of 15 other countries...so far)...Good music in vinyl format...Same good music realized in show format, Funny people (read: Mitch Hedberg), though nothing is funnier than people falling down...Irish whiskey...NPR...Taking pictures to the point of being a nuisance (yet everyone always wants copies later)...drinking wine...peeling oranges...reading the Economist on the toilet.
Well, technically I already met this box of puppies in Ireland...
Nick Cave, Thin Lizzy, The Dirty Three, Dead Moon, The Wipers, Ratatat, Television, Turbonegro, Interpol, Band of Horses, Tom Waits, Beirut, Jawbreaker, Built to Spill, Guided by Voices, X, Yann Tiersen, PJ, Serge Gainsbourg, Leonard Cohen, Wolf Parade, Love, The Stooges, The Kronos Quartet, The Rapture, Pavement, The Libertines, Franz, Lajko Felix, Damien Rice, Unwound, The National, The Shins, The Faint, The Pogues, The Melvins, Stiff Little Fingers, David Bowie, Drunk Horse, Yo-Yo Ma, Elliot Smith. Music sucks.
Science of Sleep,Amores Perros, Yu tu mama Tambien, Eternal Sunshine, Memento, Napolean Dynamite, In The Name of the Father, Amelie, Finding Neverland, Wings of Desire, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Bottle Rocket, Serial Mom, Requiem for a Dream, Donny Darko, Walk the Line, anything by Hal Hartley, esp. Henry Fool.
Yes, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm hooked on Lost, too.
Please Kill Me, McCarthy's Bar, Lord of the Flies, Blink, Lonely Planet guides, anything by Flannery O'Conner, Haruki Murakami, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edward Gorey, Roddy Doyle, David Sedaris, Howard Zinn or Naomi Klein, anything dealing with Irish history, Roman satire or Greek tragedy.
Silvia Castellana. Too bad she's in Italy. And have I failed to mention Korgis Gingras thus far? Thirty lashes for me.