Living in Oregon, Coffee, Wine drinking, watching MMA with Matt, hanging out with my family, Notre Dame football (actually...all football), early morning hikes, late night walks, liberal political humor, 80's music, funny people, camping, baby animals, a cold beer, pedicures, The Chicago Bears/Cubs, bike rides along the river, a great pair of shoes, Altoids, lipgloss, laughing, a good book, movie watching.
People that care about hygiene, Eddie Izzard, John Stewart, Walter Payton, and Stephen King.
The Beatles, 1970's easy listening, The Police, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Nellie McKay, Steely Dan, Joshua Radin, Weinland, Seals & Crofts, Spoon, Neil Young, Bill Withers, The Clash, The Who, Bill Withers, Soul Coughing, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, 80's music that I can dance to, Pearl Jam, Ween, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Tori Amos, The Roots, Elliot Smith, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Modest Mouse, Neil Diamond, Blondie, Lou Reed, Dean Martin/Frank Sinatra, Alison Krauss, Movie Scores (especially Thomas Newman, John Williams, and Danny Elfman), Cake, The Cure, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson, The Allman Brothers, Duran Duran, Traffic, and Lyle Lovett.
I love movies. Okay, here we go...Y tu Mama Tambien, L.A. Confidential, The Station Agent, Traffic, House of Sand & Fog, Big Night, Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest, Garden State, Streetcar Named Desire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Almost Famous, Dick, The Apartment, Brokeback Mountain, Superbad, Sleepy Hollow, In the Company of Men, Happiness, Nine Queens, Secretary, Moonlight Mile, The Exorcist, Boogie Nights, Elf, JFK, Platoon, Adaptation, The Lord of the Rings trilogy (nerd-city), O Brother Where Art Thou, Swingers, Young Frankenstein, Holiday Inn, Sideways, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Trainspotting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Pulp Fiction, Eddie Izzard's Dressed to Kill, The Jerk, Short Cuts, Fargo, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Animal House, You Can Count On Me, Sophie's Choice, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Godfather (I & II), Minority Report, Unforgiven (pretty much all of Clint Eastwood's movies), Some Like It Hot, Rudy, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Gosford Park, Munich, Into The Wild, Close Encounters, *almost* all of the Star Trek movies, Ordinary People, American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, Little Children, The Lives of Others, Magnolia, Big Lebowski, Hard Days Night, Lawrence of Arabia, Sunset Boulevard, Running On Empty, The Ice Storm, The Sweet Hereafter, Bridges of Madison County, Superman I & II, The Departed, Zodiac, Fargo, The Royal Tenenbaums, There Will Be Blood, Goodfellas, and when I was 14 I traumatized my brother by watching Breakin' at least 300 times.
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Weeds, Freaks and Geeks, Lost, Rome, I,Claudius (BBC), Big Love, The Office, Dexter, Seinfeld, Grey's Anatomy, and The Daily Show.
Geek Love, East of Eden, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Harry Potter Series, Women, She's Come Undone, The Lords of Discipline, On Writing, The Heart of the Matter, In Cold Blood, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The World According to Garp, The Dark Tower Series, Motherless Brooklyn, Water For Elephants, Into The Wild, and The Secret History by Donna Tart
My mom and dad, my amazing brother, Meryl Streep, John Lennon, Opus from Bloom County, the Blue States, John Steinbeck, my best friend Monica (who thinks myspace is creepy), Gandhi, and Ernie Banks.