blogging more than any good nerd ever should, voices that sound like whiskey and mountains, school supplies, new trails, running and sweating and breathing, intersections between spatial and sexual theory, expansion, neologisms, Jean Arthur, uncomfortableness, atrocities, deformities, abnormalities, autonomy as a hot characteristic, research and analysis, book smells, cinema lights, good leans, the functionality of boots, ephemera, weight lifting, exhaustion, films that plunge into the narrative action and dispose of exposition rather quickly, finding an enclave of hot geeks, movie trivia, Jimmy Stewart, costumes, themed events, freebies, Hepburn and Tracy, stuffonmycat.com, web comics, dinosaurs, Appalachian identity, packages in the mail, mad max meets honky tonk meets not being as dumb as that might sound ...
People that can tell me amusing stories or that don't mind if I tell them stories I find amusing.
Tom Russell, Lucero, Cory Branan, The Faint, The Epoxies, Gob Iron, Skinny Puppy, Dwight Yoakam, KMFDM, Billy Joel, Tom Petty, Wrinkle Neck Mules, Uncle Tupelo, The Carter Family, Son Volt, Little Richard, Alabama, Hank III, the damn Beach Boys, Duran Duran, The Pet Shop Boys, Loretta Lynn, Librarians, ...anything that makes me want to wiggle, widge, be happy, or call my friends up late at night.
serenity, dawn of the dead, nightmare on elm street (with an emphasis on 1&3), sleepaway camp, it happened one night, ginger snaps, nightbreed, total recall, predator, jeremiah johnson, the house of yes, cannibal holocaust, true lies, lethal weapon series, alien (1,2, &3 but i have defended the womb scene in part 4), evil dead series, buffy the vampire slayer, joe versus the volcano, event horizon, commando, elling, the fifth element, back to the future series, ferris bueller's day off, poltergeist (with an emphasis on 2 but 3 was terrible), terminator (1&2), last action hero, it's a wonderful life, gone with the wind, night of the living dead, the neverending story, rebecca, the sound of music, anatomy of a murder, battle royale, shockwaves (underwater nazi zombies...need i say more?), the stuff, say anything, parenthood, die hard, rocky horror picture show, high fidelity, fatal attraction, batman, batman returns, rear window, regarding henry, willow, harvey, when harry met sally, hellraiser 1&2, the muppet movie, the muppets take manhattan, clan of the cave bear, pale rider, terms of endearment, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the lost boys, near dark, the abyss, groundhog's day, rushmore, rabid, the fly, bill and ted's excellent adventure, edward scissorhands, beetlejuice, benny and joon, and on and on and on...
rome, house, quantum leap, the x-files, firefly, seinfeld, surgeries of all kinds, buffy, dinosaur documentaries, the west wing, the twilight zone, six feet under, home movies, the young ones, dead like me, arrested development, rocky and bullwinkle, dirty jobs.
The Whole Story and Other Stories, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Tom Jones, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Frankenstein, Harry Potter Series, Book of the Dead I & II, Books of Blood, The Great Gatsby, End Game, The Outsiders, The Time Traveler's Wife, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Brave New World, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, Millennium Hall, a big book about dinosaurs, The Catcher in the Rye, The Stranger, The Miracle of Theism, etc.
If by that you mean individuals that I think are awesome, then Eddie Izzard, Jimmy Foodshoes, and Freddy Krueger.