accents, Africa, alphabetizing, art, awkward situations, baking, books, candles, cats, eating, hospice, math, meerkats, movies, music, musicals, Peace Corps, polka dots, psychology (mainly psycholinguistics and ed psych), randomness, Scotland, short stories, sign languages, singing in my car, sleeping, spontaneity, spoons, teeth, theatre (going to it), travel, wrapping gifts
and this cool Korean kid
korean baby singing hey jude
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Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Moore, Roger Ebert, Paul McCartney, people with a good sense of humor, adventurous people
Air, Alison Krauss, The Arcade Fire, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Beulah, Big & Rich, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Billy Joel, Blondie, Bobby Darin, Brad Paisley, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Camera Obscura, Carol King, Cary Brothers, Cat Stevens, Chicago, Coconut Records, David Bowie, Death Cab for Cutie, Decemberists, Elliott Smith, ELO, Elton John, Eve 6, Fleetwood Mac, Flight of the Conchords, The Frames, Frou Frou, Grateful Dead, Ingrid Michaelson, Iron and Wine, Jack Johnson, Jenny Lewis, Jimmy Eat World, John Lennon, John Mayer, Joshua Radin, Keane, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, The Killers, The Littlest Man Band, Mark Mothersbaugh, Michael Buble, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Norah Jones, Oasis, Oingo Boingo, Old Crowe Medicine Show, Peter, Paul, and Mary, The Postal Service, Reel Big Fish, Regina Spektor, Royal Crown Revue, Rufus Wainwright, Save Ferris, Schuyler Fisk, The Shins, Simon and Garfunkle, Snow Patrol, SoCal VoCals, Spoon, Stars, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Suburban Legends, Super Furry Animals, T. Rex, Tegan and Sara, Van Morrison, The Wallflowers, Weezer, ...
About a Boy, Across the Universe, Alice in Wonderland, Almost Famous, Amelie, Beauty and the Beast, Being John Malkovich, Beyond the Sea, Big Fish, Boondock Saints, Bottle Rocket, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the old one), Closer, The Descent, Donnie Darko, The Door in the Floor, Edward Scissorhands, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evita, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Fight Club, Foul Play, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Garden State, Gattaca, Ghostbusters, Girl, Interrupted, Goobye Lenin!, The Graduate, Harold and Maude, Igby Goes Down, i heart huckabees, Indiana Jones, In Good Company, Insomnia, Intermission, Interview with the Vampire, In the Bedroom, Into the Wild, The Jerk, Jesus Christ Superstar, Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, Lost in Translation, The Magic Christian, Midnight Cowboy, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Monty Python movies, Moonlight Mile, Moulin Rouge, No Country for Old Men, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Phantom of the Opera, Pretty in Pink, The Princess Bride, Pumpkin, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Se7en, Shaun of the Dead, Silence of the Lambs, Sixteen Candles, Sleeping Beauty, Stranger Than Fiction, Thank You For Smoking, Trainspotting, The Virgin Suicides, Wallace and Gromit, Young Frankenstein, The Young Poisoner's Handbook
Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dexter, Ebert & Roeper, Flight of the Conchords, Freaks & Geeks, House, How I Met Your Mother, Law & Order, LOST, The Office
Jennifer Government - Max Barry
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal - Thomas Harris
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Anything by Christopher Moore, but especially Lamb
1984 & Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Hot Zone & Cobra Event - Richard Preston
Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
Anything by Salinger
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Otherland - Tad Williams
A hero kills people. People that wish them harm. A hero is part human and part super-natural. A hero is born out of a childhood trauma or out of a disaster that must be avenged. We all have a hero in our heart.