procrastination, lying about my age, salsa dancing, traveling, being leered at by large men in commercial vehicles, writing, reading, live music, sociology, socialism, impressionist art, politics, avoiding my family, working out, hanging out, going out, goofing off, prepositional phrases
well-informed, witty, thoughtful people who realize a world exists beyond their own experience. plus hot foreign dudes. you know, with accents.
The Jayhawks, Wilco, Old 97's/Rhett Miller, Elvis Costello, Amos Lee, Beck, Bowie, Guster, Trip Shakespeare, Lyle Lovett, Ben Kweller, The Format, The Gin Blossoms, Bright Eyes, Starlight Mints, Tilly and the Wall, Luke Brindley, The Muckrakers, Rufus Wainwright, Pete Yorn, The Beach Boys, Neil Diamond, anything recommended by Paste Magazine
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Billy Elliot, Wings of the Dove, Team America: World Police, Babe the Gallant Pig, Dirty Dancing Havana Nights, Roxanne, Life is Beautiful, Edward Scissorhands, Go, Shakespeare in Love, The Goonies, St. Elmo's Fire, Sixteen Candles, Clueless, Moulin Rouge, Strictly Ballroom, Sense & Sensibility, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, American Pie, Under the Tuscan Sun, The Muppet Movie
The Simpsons, The Daily Show/Colbert Report, Arrested Development, Chapelle's Show, My So-Called Life, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, The Wonder Years, Globetrekker, The Amazing Race, anything on PBS, Scrubs, America's Next Top Model (wait...was that out loud?)
any nonfiction about the current political climate, international relations and social justice; The End of Poverty; Freakonomics; David Sedaris; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; A Separate Peace; The Outsiders; The Bastard on the Couch; The Bell Jar; LOVE The Onion
Professor Frink