Whistling; Bicycling; Having it;
People who make good first impressions and who make me laugh. Anyone willing to fertilize my fledgling love for the symphony. Magicians and astrologers. People who love cuddles.
Leonard Cohen; Radiohead; The Dandy Warhols; Andrew Bird Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah!; Sufjan Stevens; Any one of the members of the McGarrigle/Wainwright family, be it Rufus, Louden, Martha or Kate and Anna...Damn!; Elton John; Scissor Sisters; Nina Simone; Mahler's Second Symphony; Yes; The Who; Third Eye Blind; Kanye West; Donovan; Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto; Cake; Beck; Broken Social Scene; The Magic Numbers; Yes; No Doubt; Ry Cooder; Tom Waits; Brightblack Morning Light; The Decemberists; Neko Case; Tapes 'N Tapes; Paul Simon, and Art Garfunkle too, duh; Arcade Fire; New Radicals; David Bowie; The National; Benjamin Britten's War Requiem;
Donnie Darko; Dancer in the Dark; Jurassic Park; Drop Dead Gorgeous; The Sound of Music;
House of Leaves; Welcome to the Monkey House; John Steinbeck, particularly East of Eden and Travels with Charley; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Walt Whitman; The Odyssey; Wilfred Owen; Letters from the Earth; William Carlos Williams; T. S. Elliot; Tennyson; The Crying of Lot 49
Joe Mauer ;)