Writing (for work and play), editing, my kick ass friends, coffee, reading, sleeping late, volunteer work, watching movies, pondering things, my oh-so evil kitty Vlad, my oh-so sweet kitty Nisa, good conversation, running, being me, carving pumpkins, tattoos, being outdoors, 2-series Volvos, bragging rights, hot baths, inside jokes, alliteration, reading The Onion, drinking PBR on my front porch, star gazing, playing darts, singing loudly in the privacy of my car, crossword puzzles, meeting new folks, Yahtzee, aquariums, voting, rooting for the underdog, playing Mortal Kombat, old Atari games, lawn gnomes, yoga, Target, stupid bets, architecture, learning new things, Woodchuck Cider, getting a good bargain, Dachshunds, rocks, eating tater tots at The Vortex, tugboats, taking silly pics of myself and my friends and pets, sushi, laughing, Halloween...and last but certainly not least...my Wifey!
People who know me. People who used to know me. People who have similar interests and would like to know me. If you have a shirtless picture of yourself in your profile, I probably don't want to know you.
The Cure, The Pixies, Modest Mouse, Portishead, The Smiths, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, The Mountain Goats, Flaming Lips, Social D, The Rev. Horton Heat, Tool, Tori Amos, Radiohead, The Killers, Kristin Hersh, Bob Marley, The Police, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, Lots of '80s new wave and hair bands and one-hit wonders(I can't help myself...it's an addiction/affliction)
Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice (okay, pretty much anything by Tim Burton except Planet of the Apes...the TV show freaked me out as a kid), Donnie Darko, Zoolander, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original only, none of this remake crap), Heat, Audition, Snatch, Old Boy, Supersize Me, An Inconvenient Truth, The Breakfast Club, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, The Departed, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Capote, Requiem for a Dream, Raising Arizona, Shaun of the Dead, The Usual Suspects, Lost in Translation, The Professional, Anchorman, American Beauty, Office Space, lots of horror movies (B grade and otherwise), oh hell - lots of other movies too .. height="350" width="425" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www..fi/images/.." ..
Law & Order (any variety), Lost, Battlestar Gallactica, Project Runway, Conan, The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Days, The First 48, Dirty Jobs, Aqua Teen, Family Guy, The Venture Brothers, nature documentaries, pretty much anything on Discovery or TLC
Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, The Stranger, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The Lovely Bones, Affluenza, Fast Food Nation, The Culture of Fear, non-fiction about environmental issues, sociology, writing or anything else that piques my interest
I admire lots of different people for lots of different reasons.