swooning and gushing, staring at the moon and stars, fluffy, fuzzy, sparkly things, green, purple and brown, cooking and eating gourmet food, fancy restaurants, sad music, intellectuals, artists, coon-asses and chowder-heads, foreign and regional accents, foreign languages and cultures, reading literature, poetry and the dictionary, good beer, fine wine, strong coffee, peppermint, ginger and green tea, teaching and loving and dancing with blind children, being silly, tenderness, carousing, adventure, swimming, roller skating, belly dancing, traveling, esl, sign language, jewish culture, academia, ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, primate behavior, conflict mediation, tending my perennials and herbs, smooching my kitties profusely, art, scuba diving, otters, nautical archaeology, shipwrecks, cultural anthropology, land surveying, cartography, hacking my way thru the jungle with my machete looking for lost cities, riding out storms in bilge heavy vessels, sea spray in my face, riding horses, driving cranes and boats, flying cessnas, gawking at heavy hydrolic machinery and power tools, and loving my Rajab.
Sweetpeas, Pumpkins, Darlings. . . Down to earth types. Although Head in the clouds types are awfully swell too.
Roland Kirk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cesaria Evora, Delibes' Lakme, Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Barry White, Klezmer, Vic Chestnut, Adult Rodeo, Nebula, Bellrays, Turbo Negro, Prescott Curlywolf, Rob Bernard, Grand Champeen, Lil' Cap'n Travis, Fivehead, Tinys, Mittens, Diaz Brothers, Radiohead, Grandaddy, the Adults, Viper Horse, Pong, White Stripes, Yo La Tengo, Marianne Faithfull, Willie Nelson, Jon Wayne, Nick Cave, the Cars, Blondie, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, Mazzy Star, Felt, Led Zeppelin, old Van Halen, Motley Crue, David Bowie, the Damned, Adam and the Ants, My Bloody Valentine, Murder City Devils, Eastside Suicides, Cat Scientist, Sexy Finger Champs, The Mysterious They, Yuppie Pricks, Mood Killers
Best in Show, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Party Girl, Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space, Young Frankenstein, the Hunger, the Player, Shortcuts, Withnail and I, Cabaret, All That Jazz, Love Liza, the Usual Suspects, Traffic, Dark City, City of Lost Children, Wings of Desire, Emmanuelle goes to Bangkok, Pele the Conqueror, Fool for Love, Zentropa, the Wrath of Khan, Fast Sofa
Dr. Who (the new one!), The Office, Battlestar Gallactica, Stargate Atlantas, Arrested Development, the Venture Brothers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Cleopatra 2525, Samurai Jack, Spongebob Squarepants, Star Trek, The Lost World, Are You Being Served? Absolutely Fabulous
100 Years of Solitude, Confederacy of Dunces, Heart of Darkness, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Time's Arrow, Phillip Roth, Epitaph of a Small Winner, The Crossing, The Lover, Flannery O'Connor, Henry Miller, Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, The Painted Bird, Italo Calvino, The God of Small Things
Mom, Jimmy Carter, blind children, and anyone with the courage to prevail in the face of adversity.