Driving long distances, reading good books, dancing, funky earrings, raindrops and puddles, paisley, chocolate chip anything, brilliantly designed spaces, cute socks, giggles, spanish wine, spanish anything rather, the word "rather", pilates, winding country roads, family get-togethers, hugs, baseball players in pinstripes, trucks, abstract art, anything pink, hiking, white tea, accents, the mess that is politics, hazelnut, horseback riding, singing, sunroofs, ponytails and ballcaps, getting dolled up, flippy skirts and high heels, cuddling, cozy turtlenecks, snowy nights, city lights, the neverending sky and iridescent stars at home, headbands, music that isn't worthless, movies that make you think... nice segue, eh?.
whoever... old friends, new friends, green friends, blue friends.
I'm all over the place: Damien Rice, The Decembists, Radiohead, Snow Patrol, Dashboard, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kyler England, Ana Torroja, Martina McBride, Jason Mraz, Cranberries, Old Jewel, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Dave Brubeck, Sinatra, Beatles, Tori Amos, India Arie, Josh Kelley, Journey, Pink Floyd, Corinne Bailey Rae, KT Tunstall, Ray LaMontagne, Springsteen, Ben Folds, Augustana, Chantal Kreviazuk, Foo Fighters, Springsteen, Funeral for a Friend, John Mayer, Lifehouse, Finch, Live, REM, Stones, Stain, U2, Tracy Chapman, Daughtry, Dixie Chicks, and so on and so forth.
Again, depends on the minute. The Invisible Circus, Manhattan, Shopgirl, Pan's Labyrinth, Vanity Fair, All about y My Mother, Dumb and Dumber, Love Actually, Sliding Doors, While you Were Sleeping, Lucky # Slevin, The Notebook, Annie Hall, The Story of Us, Dodgeball, Shawshank Redemption, Anchorman, Little Miss Sunshine, Dogville, Manderlay, Punch Drunk Love, Twelve Angry Men, National Velvet, Bridget Jones', Ocean's Eleven and Twelve, Toy Story, Italian Job, Hope Floats, Jerry Maguire, Top Gun, Notting Hill, Wicker Park... anything but horror.
THE CLASS!!! Simpsons, Men in Trees, How I Met Your Mother (Y'all know how I feel about Doogie.), Jeopardy (although I hate Alex Trebek with a vengeance), Grey's Anatomy, The Unit, Family Guy, Boston Legal, anything on HGTV and the History Channel, etc.
Salinger, Vonnegut, Kerouac, Gods in Alabama, Tuesday's with Morrie, Harry Potters, She's Come Undone, Everything is Illuminated, The Alchemist, 1984, political and girlielovie ones too... If it can hold my meandering attention, it's a keeper.
My lovelies, for keeping me afloat all these years :)