ice-cream, coffee, beer, dancing, music, yoga, poems, essays, cute clothes on sale, nostalgia, distractions, the interweb, inventing recipies, haiku, rock shows, education reform, industrial piercings, haircuts, blogs, public transit, grills, fire escapes, board games, free association, parks, politics, saving the free world, travel, scrabble, pedicures...
people with puppies and other small fluffy animals
Lately: The Knife, Gogol Bordello, and the Trainspotting soundtrack.Always: Elliott Smith, TV on the Radio, Wilco, Regina Spektor, 80's dancin' tunes, Kanye West, The Arcade Fire, The Postal Service, Magnetic Fields, Outkast, Jeff Buckley, Helicoptor Helicoptor, Tori Amos, The Westward Trail, Belle and Sebastian, The Shins, Modest Mouse, Say Hi To Your Mom.
High Fidelity, Office Space, The Breakfast Club, Y Tu Mama Tambien, I Heart Huckabees, Donnie Darko, Run Lola Run, Ghostbusters, Reality Bites, The Royal Tennenbaums, Little Miss Sunshine, Secretary, Singles, Anything with Ewan McGregor
I mostly watch old shows via netflix. Current series are Buffy and Sex and the City. I'm also a lifelong Simpsons lover.
Truth and Beauty (Patchett), Alice in Wonderland (Caroll), Harry Potter (Rowling), Norwegian Wood (Murakami), Arial (Plath), Hopscotch (Cortazar), The Passion (Winterson), A Coney Island of the Mind (Ferlinghetti), The Boys of My Youth (Beard); Jeff McDaniel's poems all rock
The Jukebox Variety, please