surgically romantic
books, writing, contemporary poetry, running, cooking, wine, birds, travel, fair-trade coffees, psychiatry, religions, superstitions, catholicism for atheists, science for amateurs, photography by others, decapitated statuary, odd left-over things
a fabulous new apartment
Lyle Lovett, Damien Rice, Gillian Welch, Townes Van Zandt, Regina Spektor, John Prine, Bob Dylan, Odetta, Feist, Cowboy Junkies, Bill Morrissey, The Boss, Jenny Lewis w/the Watson Twins, Leonard Cohen, Brahms, Nina Simone, Ray LaMontagne, Fiona Apple, Emmylou Harris, Freakwater, Beck
any Eddie Izzard movies, Sarah Silverman Jesus is Magic, House in the Sand, Frida, Dead Again, Hard Candy, I'm Your Man, Science of Sleep, Secretary, anything foreign, anything weird
Grey's Anatomy(yes, it's true), House, Bones, Frontline, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore, David Grossman, Tony Hoagland, Stephen Dobyns, Heather McHugh, The new formalists and the old, the Pushcart Prize anthologies, dictionaries, reference books published before 1960