Music, sushi, watching live bands at small venues, politics, food, ASL, the sustainable business movement, lesbians TTC, traveling, babywearing, riding my bike, making fun of the L Word, hanging out with my favorite neighbors and spending time with little Phine.
Your mom.
Throwing Muses, Longstocking, Radiohead, The New Pornographers, They Might Be Giants, Team Dresch, The Third Sex, The Moves, The Need, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Doris Day, Swisher, ABBA, Atom and His Package, The Apples in Stereo, Built to Spill, Magnetic Fields, Crowns on 45, Red Aunts, Mocket, Selby Tigers, New Order, Geraldine Fibbers, Interpol, Sondre Lerche, Neko Case, Petula Clark, Rebecca Gates, Stereolab, Superchunk, The Postal Service, The Alkaline Trio, The Pixies, Tegan and Sara, British Sea Power, Duran Duran, That Dog, The Stills, Bloc Party, Dead Kennedys, Camper Van Beethoven, Le Tigre, Madonna, Matt Pond PA, Palomar, Stereo Total, YAZ, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and lots of other stuff...
My Neighbor Totoro, Mulholland Drive, Love and Other Catastrophes, Bound, Blood Simple, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Lots of it!
My Year of Meat, lots of non fiction.
I don't really believe in heros or putting people up on pedestals. However I do admire my wife Mia (I especially admire her butt).