Shamelessly copied from my livejournal because I hate making lists... albert einstein, antiques, aromatherapy, art, asheville nc, astronomy, autism, books, brian greene, butterflies, calvin and hobbes, cello, celtic mythology, classical music, coffee, collages, color theory, compassion, contemplation, creativity, curiosity, da vinci, daffodils, dante, deja vu, edvard munch, expression, faeries, fall, family, flowers, gemology, georgia o'keefe, gothic architecture, gustav klimt, harp, harpsichord, heirlooms, imagination, india, intelligence, ireland, italy, jazz, kindness, knowledge, lazy sundays, literature, max, movies, naps, northern lights, pablo picasso, painting, passion, phantom of the opera, philosophy, photography, piano, piercings, poetry, prose, rain, reading, reflection, renaissance, salvador dali, sea glass, seashells, skeleton keys, snow, spirituality, st augustine, stem cell research, stephen hawking, surrealism, symphonies, synchronicity, tattoos, the elegant universe, the roaring 20's, thunderstorms, tim burton, transformation, twilight, vanilla dr pepper, vincent van gogh, violins, virginia lee, weeping willows, winter, writing
Tori Amos, Bjork, Portishead, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Mazzy Star, Lamb, Nine Inch Nails, Everything But The Girl, Beck, Sublime, Dubtribe, Poe, Brad Hamers, Tricky, Massive Attack, 311, Sneaker Pimps, Garbage, Beastie Boys, Sarah McLachlan, Evanescence, Tripping Daisy, Pixies, Sia, Ben Harper, Montana Skies, LTJ Bukem, Weezer, Counting Crows, Dave Matthews Band, Bob Marley, Damian Marley, DJ Spooky, DJ Shadow, Alice in Chains, Eyedea and Abilities, Isaac Stern, Leila Josefowicz, Jurassic 5, Esthero, Manson, Sage Francis, Rage Against the Machine, Anti-Pop Consortium, Aphex Twin, Stone Temple Pilots, Jack Johnson, Squarepusher, Atmosphere, Iron and Wine, Getz/Gilberto, Tool, Clouddead, Filter, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Keller Williams, Norah Jones, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Tchaikovsky
The Wizard of Oz, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Waking Life, Amelie, Vanilla Sky, Doom Generation, The Salton Sea, Dancer in the Dark, A Beautiful Mind, The Last Unicorn, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Animal House, One Hour Photo, Almost Famous, SLC Punk, The Shining (the original), Ghost World, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, American Beauty, Robin Williams Live on Broadway, Bill Cosby Himself, The Virgin Suicides, Blow, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Saw 1 and 2, Legends of the Fall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Brazil, The Crow (but only the first one), The Exorcist (again, only the first one), Rocky Horror Picture Show
It's rare that I watch TV... but somehow I found myself hopelessly addicted to Sex and the City. I also liked the version of Stephen Hawking's Universe that was made for TV.
Let's just stick with authors - the list will be marginally shorter that way... Stephen King, Anne Rice, Laurell K Hamilton, HP Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, James Patterson, Jim Carroll, Wally Lamb, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, Wislawa Szymborska, Rumi, Khalil Gibran, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson, William Cullen Bryant, T.S. Eliot, E.A. Poe, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Brian Greene
My autistic cousin Brandon, who lives daily in a world that we're just beginning to understand... Gran, whose heart is big enough to shelter the whole world if need be... my good friend Eli, who is making leaps and bounds in the realm of recombinant genetics every day.... There are plenty more but that will suffice for now.