the usual: family, friends, exercise, dancing, food, movies, books, trashy celebrity magazines, naps, sunshine...not so usual: family dynamics, organ donation/transplantation, race relations, relationships, thunderstorms, animals, amusement park rides, the beach
Margaret Mead, Mahatma Gandhi, Bjork, Liz Phair, Nelson Mandela, Gael Garcia Bernal, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Walt Disney, Madonna, Malcolm X, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, numerous dead relatives/ ancestors.
Patty Griffin, Liz Phair, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Amos Lee, Madonna, Ben Harper, Blue October, Death Cab for Cutie, Heather Nova, James Blunt, Jay-Z, Kacy Crowley, Maroon 5, Mike Jones, Pink, Prince, Sister 7, Snow Patrol, T.I., Veruca Salt, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blink-182, The Donnas, Jack Johnson, The Cranberries, Dispatch, Dixie Chicks, Luna, Gwen Stefani, Sarah McLachlan, Portishead, Pixies, 50 Cent, Poe, The Streets, Jewel, 2 Pac, Sheryl Crow, Outkast, Marilyn Manson (only when I'm running), David Grey, Nine Inch Nails, Seal, Jem, Dan Paul Roberts, Kasey Chambers, Dido, Lauryn Hill, Enya, Alison Krauss
Can't Buy Me Love, If Lucy Fell, Stand By Me, Love Actually, American Beauty, Crash, E.T., Schindler's List, Napoleon Dynamite, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Requiem for a Dream, Forrest Gump, Pee-wee Herman's Big Adventure, Sliding Doors, Tommy Boy, Dumb and Dumber, Shrek, Bad Santa, Old School, Chasing Amy, The Neverending Story, Shopgirl, Kinky Boots
The L Word, Weeds, Huff
The Catcher in the Rye, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Secret Life of Bees, When Rabbit Howls, This Much I know is True, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hobbit, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, East of Eden, Anna Karenina, anything written by Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris
my mama