Comfy pants, hoedowns, nerdly pursuits, knitting, cleaning the lint trap, Statistically Improbable Phrases, puttering, writing in cursive, madcap capers, harebrained schemes, convenient snack foods, napping, the Kennedys, singing rabbits, dogs with eyebrows, buttonmaking, The Quote Book. I like shuffling cards and playing board games. Interspecies friendship kills me. Are you kidding me with cats, dogs, monkeys, gerbils, etc. getting along?! I enjoy Wikipedia. Oh, and music. That pretty much covers it.
Fred Neil, Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Nilsson, Jill Sobule, Mike Andrews, Nick Lowe, the Band, Gene Clark, Nellie McKay, Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, Bowie, the Kinks, Big Star, Goldenboy, Tim Hardin, the Ditty Bops, T. Rex, Fiona Apple, Tom Brosseau, Beatles, George Harrison, Dave Van Ronk, Bert Jansch, Slim Gaillard, Girls Guitar Club of Greater Los Angeles, the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack, Townes Van Zandt, Grant-Lee Phillips/Grant Lee Buffalo, Joanna Newsom, Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, Randy Newman, Rufus Wainwright, the Byrds, Love, The Breakups. I cannot stress the following enough: Elliott Smith!
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, All About Eve, Breakfast at Tiffany's, His Girl Friday, Magnolia, Bringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night, The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey, Spellbound, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather I and II, A Room with a View, Chinatown, Dig!, Newsies (just give it a chance!), Meet Me in St. Louis, You Can't Take It With You, The Last Waltz, Steel Magnolias, Bowling For Columbine, Holiday, Swing Time, Duck Soup, Fried Green Tomatoes, Amelie, The Hours, Robin Hood (Disney), Boogie Nights, The Third Man, Don't Look Back, The Elephant Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Little Mermaid, Roman Holiday, The Hudsucker Proxy, Casablanca, Russia: Land of the Tsars, TintheC, The Men Who Killed Kennedy. If it involves Eddie Izzard I am probably a fan of it. I mostly liked The Good German and it was the first movie I mostly liked in AGES! Yay George Clooney! And yay Cate Blanchett's makeup artist, hairstylist and costume designer!
Gilmore Girls (RIP), The Dick Van Dyke Show, Arrested Development, The Office, NewsRadio, Almost Live, Mr. Show, America's Next Top Model, The Cosby Show, Designing Women, Standards of Perfection: Show Cats, American Experience.
The Great Gatsby, Franny and Zooey, Cat's Cradle, Of Human Bondage, My Antonia, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Chronicles of Narnia, Carry On Jeeves, Thank You Jeeves, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters, Living Well is the Best Revenge, The Master and Margarita, Picasso at the Lapin Agile And Other Plays, The Bell Jar, Angels in America, The Floating Opera, Lolita, The Sirens of Titan, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Prayer for Owen Meany, archy and mehitabel, Dancing With Cats, Why Cats Paint, Mr. Tennessee Williams.
MEEKINS! and all other heroes in the fight against poor customer service.