reading, people-watching, dancing, movies, architecture, theatre, napping, Eddie Izzard.
James Thurber, Catherine the Great, Evelyn Waugh, Jane Austen, Mozart, Georgia O'Keefe, P.G. Wodehouse, Eleanor Roosevelt, Malcom X, Elixabeth Cady Stanton, Montgomery Clift, Simone de Beauvoir, Jackie Robinson, the Virgin Mary.
Classical Guitar, Gilbert & Sullivan (especially The Mikado), T Rex, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, The Beatles, Edith Piaf, Janis Joplin, CCR singing "Fortunate Son," ODETTA ODETTA ODETTA oh Great Odetta-anything sung by you, Mozart's Horn Concertos (some of his other stuff is good too), Frank Sinatra singing "Fly Me to the Moon." All the great musical numbers: "Hey, Big Spender," "Get Me to the Church on Time," "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" "Everything's Good in America," "When You're a Jet..." "I've Got the Horse Right Here," "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat," "We Could Have Danced All Night." All the great folk songs and spirituals: 16 Tons, John Henry, Jesse James, Motherless Child, When I Was a Young Girl... ABBA, Reggae, Flamenco, Salt 'n Pepa
All That Jazz, Cabaret, Tender Mercies, Y Tu Mama Tambien, La Dolce Vita, The Third Man, Before Night Falls, Clueless, Singin' in the Rain, North Dallas 40, Secretary, Annie Hall, Let's Get Lost, On the Waterfront, Take the Money & Run, Mephisto, Amadeus, The Ice Storm, Brokeback Mountain, Burnt by the Sun, A Room with a View, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, The Conversation, Chicks with Sticks
America's Next Top Model, Slings & Arrows
The Moviegoer. Scoop. Without Feathers. Lucky Jim. Member of the Wedding. The Loved One. My Life & Hard Times. Postcards, Confederacy of Dunces. Anything by Salinger. Anything by Alice Munro. Lie Down in Darkness. As I Lay Dying. The Bluest Eye. Eureka Street. In Cold Blood. The Phone Book. Anything by George Saunders. The Way of All Flesh. The Ice Storm. Chrysanthemum Palace. The Pickwick Papers. Northanger Abbey. I'll Let You Go. Where there is No Doctor...1 Ladies Detective Agency. Portuguese Irregular Verbs. Freaky Friday--A Billion for Boris--Summer Switch. So many books, so litte time...gimme gimme gimme a book after midnight. A Good Man is Hard to Find. Nothing whatsoever by Norman Mailer or that twit who wrote Tropic of Capricorn.
Eddie Izzard, Mother Theresa