Books, books, books, really bad t.v., cheap wine, expensive wine, NPR, chick music, and movies with a lot of dialogue
Jon Stewart, Ira Glass, Barack Obama, Joyce Carol Oates
I like all types of music. But, I can feel myself slowly evolving into an easy listening type of girl (Witness the list below). Beastie Boys, U2, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Morphine, They Might Be Giants, Ween, Ben Folds, Damien Rice, Dar Williams...notice the evolutionary pattern here?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Secretary, Control Room, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Amélie, Pulp Fiction, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Lost (I am horribly addicted), Project Runway, Top Chef, Antiques Roadshow, really bad MTV dating shows that I should have grown out of years ago, and almost anything on HGTV (incipient soccer mom urges)
This list is way more difficult for me than music or movies and those are terribly incomplete.I love John Irving because he's accessible and bizarre. I also love Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, David Sedaris, Dave Eggers, Alice Sebold, Jane Austen, Phillip Roth, John Updike, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Michael Chabon, Jeffrey Eugenides, Roddy Doyle