Things I like:Television Without Pity; Arrested Development; BookCrossing; sarcasm; snark; English; reading; knitting; sewing; making ravioli; domesticity; V-day; women's rights; gay rights; DINOSAURS; PostSecret.com; flip-flops; American Sign Language; NASA; the Race for Space; Apollos 1, 8, 13 in particular; Gene Kranz; Jim Lovell; THAT CHRISTMAS EVE THAT APOLLO 8 HAD TO PREFORM MANUVERS WHILST OUT OF RADIO CONTACT AROUND THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON AND, WHEN THE FINALLY REAPPEARED AFTER LONGER THAN THE STANDARD TWENTY-FIVE-ISH MINUTES AND ALL THAT JIM LOVELL HAD TO SAY WAS "Houston, be advised: there is a Santa Claus". AND ALL THAT THEY SAID WAS "ROGER". I COULD WET MYSELF RIGHT NOW. Jumping on the bed; banter; eating crackers in bed, channelling Bert and Ernie; colouring; pillow forts; hall parties; staying up late enough to lose my filter and to fully enjoy it; embarrassing 1990s pop music; my elaborate fantasy life; warm ginger ale out of my dinosaur cup when I am feeling hurt; open mouths travelling across skin; USING ALL-CAPS AND REPEATING THINGS FOR EMPHASIS-- EMPHASIS!; Homestyle Pop Secret popcorn; discussing sexuality frankly and openly; sex ed. Reform; that time I drew a vulva on my hand to explain to Catholic school girls how their bodies work; not being afraid to ask questions; "Take On Me" by A-Ha; MY RADIO SHOW; underwear!; "douchebag" as a synonym for "superfluous"; Greek-syle yoghurt; list-keeping . . .
Various re-animated literary figures including
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (with my chastity belt set to "stun")
Allen Ginsberg
Kurt Vonnegut
I probably don't want to meet you.
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, Matt Nathanson, boys with guitars, angry Alanis Morissette, New Kids on the Block, pain-killer-addiction-era Weezer, Oasis, Guster, Counting Crows, Ace of Base, Ashlee Simpson (hee!), pre-drugs-sexual-assault-a nd-air-rowdiness [snerk!] Howie Day, Bleu, '80s hair metal bands, Chris Isaak, Tegan and Sara, covers of ''Wild Horses'', Pearl Jam, Sacha Sacket, Kris Delmhorst, arlene mccann, The Notwist (when I feel like crashing my car)
The Lord of the Rings, the Royal Tenebaums, Jurassic Park, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shaun of the Dead, Garden State, The Princess Bride, Fantasia, Good Will Hunting, Apollo 13, The Neverending Story, The Hudsucker Proxy, Lost in Translation, A Few Good Men, Empire Records, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Amélie, Grease, The Sound of Music, Disney movies (minus the violence), Braveheart (plus the violence), Remember the Titans, North, Bring it On, Save the Last Dance, A Time to Kill, Cool Hand Luke, Boys Don't Cry (only the first half. Then-- you know-- I prove the title wrong), 28 Days Later, Fight Club, Life as a House, Finding Nemo
Family Guy, the Cosby Show, Little House on the Prarie (Yeah-- I went there), old The Simpsons, Arrested Development, The Daily Show with Jon Steward, old The West Wing, House, The Amazing Race, THE HISTORY CHANNEL, A&E, PBS, DISCOVERY, 25 Lame, MythBusters, Curb Your Enthusiasm, America's Next Top Model, Good Eats, My So-Called life, Quantum Leap, MacGuyver, seasons 1-3 of The X-Files, The L-Word, Futurama, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Scrubs, Aquateen Hunger Force (when appropriately tired)
Dangerous Angels, anything by Francesca Lia Block, Writing Down the Bones, The Lord of the Rings, Calvin and Hobbes, Jurassic Park, The Little Prince, Contact, George Shrinks, Matilda, High Fidelity, Failure is not an Option, Lost Moon, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Phantom Tollbooth, Naked Pictures of Famous People, Their Eyes Were Watching G-d, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, The Chocolate War, The Word Lover's Dictionary, The Giver, Naked, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Snowman, Five Minutes' Peace, A Piece of Cake, Chicken Soup with Rice, The People's Almanac, Stitch and Bitch, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Harriet the Spy, the Baby-Sitter's Club series, Death of a Salesman, The Scarlet Letter, encyclopaedias, America: the Book, The Vagina Monologues, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Stone Butch Blues (it still manages to make me weepy), Staying Fat for Sarah Burns, The Awakening, The Catcher in the Rye, School Girls: Young Women/Self-Esteem/and the Confidence Gap, Robinson Crusoe, Welcome to the Monkey-House
Allen Ginsberg, Les Feinberg, Jews in general