Adventure, scandal, summer camp, details about daily life from different historical periods, queer theory, human and pet psychology, multi-syllabic vocabulary words, astrological profiling, serial killer profiling, ayurvedic fasting, multi-culti dance classes, Britney Spears' class issues, deep dark secrets (tell me yours - I'll keep them for you), weird religious practises (Mormons, you know what I mean), sewing and creating costumes, wordsmithery, irrational celebrity hatred (die, Mariah Carey and Robin Williams), Glenda - my 19 year-old cat (RIP), Critical Mass, Burning Man, verbal games, playing 'what would you rather do?', drumming
Smart interesting people, my doppelganger, a talking mannequin
Sufjan Stevens, Peter Bjorn and John, Aimee Mann, Led Zeppelin, Cool Calm Pete, Elliott Smith, Tori Amos, Journey, the musicals West Side Story, Evita, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar and Spring Awakening, Love, MC Solar, Wyclef Jean, Jonathan Edwards, Outkast, Phish, Res, Madonna
West Side Story, Harold and Maude, The Sound of Music, all Hitchcock, old John Waters, La Petite Voleuse, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Drumline, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Fun, Parents, Grey Gardens, Gosford Park, Heavenly Creatures, Little Darlings, Valley Girl, Mysterious Skin, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Arrested Development, The Office (UK version), The State, Upright Citizen's Brigade, Mr. Show, Reno 911, South Park, Curb your Enthusiasm, Intervention ("you have hurt me in the following ways...")
Some of my all-time favorites: PG Wodehouse, EF Benson, Katherine Harrison, AM Homes, Martin Amis (The Rachel Papers!), Sarah Waters (Fingersmith!), Pat Califia, Margaret Atwood, JK Rowling, Edward Eager, David Sedaris, Up in the Air, Pattern Recognition, The Secret History, The Corrections, Perfume, Cruddy, Vox, Lap Dancing for Mommy, Bel Canto, Diary of a Teenage Girl, and many more.
Huck Finn, the mayor of Bogota, Leslie Feinberg, Amy Sedaris