silliness, strawberries, exclamation marks, adjectives, superlatives, presents, kindness, sentimentality, springtime, windy days, starry nights, sarcasm, wit, asian food, tapas, the saxophone, carolina basketball, lemonade, crossword puzzles, the sunday funnies, sunglasses, barefeet, eastern philosophy, feather pillows, and everything else that makes me smile
Good people, warm people, lovable people, hearty people, silly people, arty people, funny people, yummy people, smarty people and people people. Doesn't people sound like a funny word after saying it so much?
the beatles, feist, neko case, cat power, azure ray, rilo kiley, bright eyes, new pornographers, wilco, calexico, sufjan stevens, josh ritter, damien rice, amos lee, mason jennings, hem, the postal service, stereolab, superchunk, death cab for cutie, the pixies, goapele, marvin gaye, bob dylan, early clapton, mofro, van morrison, led zeppelin, peter gabriel, early james taylor, the jam, the smiths, the stone roses, radiohead, new order, loquat, rusted root, sade, galactic, ben harper, manu chao, leonard cohen, mos def, aesop rock, serge gainsbourg, dr. john, taj mahal, all the jazz greats from ella and nina, to miles and coltraine, anything '80s, late night feeling ya music ... and so it goes ...
baraka, hong kong films, wong kar wei films, ashes of time, pre-hollywood john woo films, tsui hark films, kung fu films, zhang yimou films, kurosawa films, rashomon, anh hung tran films, sex and lucia, y tu mama tambien, amelie, heathers, the john hughes films, '80s films in general, the princess bride, pump up the volume, stand by me, the goonies, audrey hepburn films, roman holiday, documentaries ...
jakers! the adventures of piggley winks
the little prince, the unbearable lightness of being, anything by david sedaris, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, short story humor collectives, zagat's, travel books, anais nin, bukowski, thoreau, shel silverstein, and a lot of non-fiction (trying to educate myself) books
love you always dan ...