Yoga, teeth, playing records, adding to my nature collection, looking at crazy cats on Youtube, aquatic adventures, walking, making stuff, making my house look beautiful and interesting, making you smile, doing the Tighten Up, comics, suffering from laugh attacks (especially while driving), playing dominoes, snail mail, volunteering my time to organizations that make me feel like the world is going to be okay, tutoring the kids, history, smelling like a coconut, citizenship, telling the truth even though it's difficult, dancing all the time, laying in bed and reading for hours and hours.
Someone to take me to a corn maze!
Sergio Mendez and Brazil '66, Henry Mancini, Niel Young, David Bowie, the Dirtbombs (thanks Lewis!), T Rex, Otis Redding, Gladys Knight and the Pips (don't you forget about those Pips), Midnite Snake, Roxy Music, Le Tigre, Gizzard, the Detroit Cobras, Lesley Gore, Black Sabbath, Stevie Wonder (is wonderful), the Fucking Champs, the Temptations, QOTSA, Serge Gainsbourg, BOC, CCR, the exotic sounds of Martin Denny, Stereolab, the Pixies, Neu! (because it's like Kraftwerk for optimists), the Go!Team, Fu Manchu, the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed all by his lonesome, Willy Nelson, the Pretenders, M.I.A., Animal Collective, the Cramps, the Electric Prunes, Ratatat, Sharon Jones and the Dapkings, Electrelane, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Jonathan Richman (because he was supposed to be the godfather of punk rock, but ended up as some sort of retarded cheerleader for springtime and yetis), Jefferson Airplane, the Who, the Beach Boys, Wanda de Sah (can kill me with her voice), the Ramones, Adam and the Ants, Aretha Franklin, the Go-Go's, Talking Heads, and I have to drop everything when Bad Company's "Feel like Makin' Love" comes on. It makes me want to get down at a Waffle House.
Big Trouble in Little China, the Linguini Incedent, Back to the Beach, Danger: Diabolic, boner/fart comedies
Flight of the Conchords! Meow!
Jim Crace, Rachel Seiffert, Kate Atkinson, Jonathan Ames, Jonathan Safran Foer, and lots and lots more!
Allen Carr