stand-up comedy, living green, sign language, reading, black bean salads from Calypso Cafe, riding my bike, live music, orange flavored candy, camping, watches, magic markers that smell like food, road trips, the letter K, pretending to have an accent other than my own, drive-in movies, key lime pie, puppy breath, curse words, fleurs-de-lis, trillian, getting text messages, socks with pictures on them, pancakes made by other people, google, random acts of kindness, learning new words and using them correctly in conversation, long sleeved t-shirts in any color but black, down comforters, the look on my niece's face when I say "yes, I am staying for dinner.", laughing so hard I have to leave the room, people who wave when you let them cut in traffic, plants that refuse to die, trivia games, getting just a little drunk, the number 19, people who refer to themselves in the third person, beating my sister in air hockey, cooking out, skee ball, learning all the words to a really fast/complicated song, burt's bees stuff, really cheap sunglasses, popping bubble wrap, double bass and cello music, bocce
Anyone who thinks I'm funnyIra Glass
Amy Sedaris
Jim Gaffigan
Zack Galifianakis
Kevin Pollak
Dane Cook
Jon Roy
Jon Stewart
Demetri MartinYour mammy
Ray Lamontagne, Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, The Old 97's, The Frames, Feist, Etta James, David Gray, Jem, John Butler Trio, Cary Brothers, Damien Rice, Jeff Buckley, Axiom of Choice, Sade, Sam Cooke, Coldplay, Jump,Little Children, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Genesis, Sara Beck, Otis Redding, Tracy Chapman, A Fine Frenzy, Josh Rouse, Lori McKenna, Lizzie West, Cowboy Junkies, Dion and the Belmonts, Ingrid Lucia and the Flying Neutrinos, Blue Mountain, John Cougar Mellencamp, Percy Sledge, Anything suggested by The BDS
Fight Club, Amelie, Juno, The Usual Suspects, Raising Arizona, Boondock Saints, Office Space, Superman, Garden State, Closer, Peggy Sue Got Married, Back to the Future, Godfather II, 13 Going on 30, LA Confidential, Secretary, The Big Lebowski, Shakespeare in Love, Batman Begins, Run Lola Run, Little Miss Sunshine, Kevin Smith Stuff
Screw tv.
Geek Love, Catch-22, The Devil's Dictionary, Lolita, A Journey into the Deaf-World, Layer Cake, Anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Christopher Moore, or Tom Robbins
It takes faith to believe, and it takes courage not to, and who is to say which is the deeper and more truthful.
--Herbert Weisinger