Onomatopoeia, snow skiing, fast cars, nice guys, people who can juggle, reading, shots of tequila, salt and vinegar potato chips, sincerity, not asking for directions, crazy high heels, people who know the difference between debate and argument, people who listen, tiaras, thunderclaps and desert lightning, birthday parties, skinnydipping, Charger football, pints of beer, trips to Vegas, breakfast in bed, bowling, playing hooky, the air after it rains, figure skating, doing and not watching, video games, learning new words, really tight jeans, eating with chopsticks, coffee at night, steaks done rare, meeting new people, drive-in movies, life in general.
John Lennon, Andre the Giant, Elvis Presley, David Hasselhoff and Charlie, from Charlie's Angels. And Amelia Earhart, because I just noticed there weren't any women on my list.
Anything I know the words to, everything I can dance to.
Love 'em all. Even when they're really, really bad. Because then they're really, really funny.
Lost, when it isn't crappy, Heroes, Mad Men, The Office, Jeopardy!, none of the CSIs, The Simpsons, and occasionally House.
Well, right now I'm reading David Ogilvy's Advertising today, The Easy way to Stop Smoking, 'Sir Vidia's Shadow' (memoir by Paul Theroux about his time with v.s. naipaul, which is actually strangely compelling), Communication Arts magazine, and Web Design: The Basics of HTML. I'm not kidding.
Some of my favorites:
Middlesex, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Everything is Illuminated, most of T.C. Boyle, Jane Austen, The Big Sleep, The Fountainhead, Pattern Recognition, anything Vonnegut, half of Sedaris and a little of Robbins, essays by David Foster Wallace, A Wrinkle in Time, The Time Traveler's Wife, A Room With a View, things that make your heart bleed, The Tempest, Native Speaker, and the dictionary.
People who are kind.