Laughter, bonfires, movies , music , hanging out with my friends, being outside, good books, good conversation, Chuck Norris jokes, cold beer on a pretty day (or night), going out , Photo Hunt , Brian Andreas, the deck at Son's , shopping and clothes in general, Friends reruns, meeting new people , Clocked! , Weeds (I wish I had Showtime) , sunshine, That 70's Show reruns , traveling , the ocean, late afternoon summer storms, being a klutz , Liquid Valiums and Swedish Lemonades , Transmet mmmm.... , LOST , shoes!, Mean Bean quesadillas and tofu...well basically anything from Mean Bean , sitting on my porch with the Christmas lights on , fall weather, acting a fool, dancing, owning a dog vicariously through my friends, sand between my toes, smiles, inside jokes, jamming out to old-school rap in Beth's car in my driveway at 3:30 in the morning (I'm sure my neighbors hate me now...), and so much more
I'd love to meet:
Jon Stewart
George Balanchine and Bob Fosse, because they were geniuses.
Coco Chanel and Diana Vreeland, because they knew/know beautiful clothes
Anne Coulter, so I can punch her in the face
and lots of other people I can't think of right now
Widespread Panic, moe., Kanye West, Old 97's, OutKast, Jack Johnson, Keller Williams, The Black Crowes, Modest Mouse, The Avett Bros., Bob Schneider, The Allman Bros. Band (before Duane died), Grateful Dead, Fiona Apple, My Morning Jacket, Maroon 5, Cash, old-school Madonna, Ben Folds Five, Gnarls Barkley, Neil Young, Nelly Furtado, The Beatles, Tom Petty, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson (before he was scary and white), Bright Eyes, The Strokes, Weezer, Ben Folds Five, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Bob Marley, Sublime, Hole, Lauryn Hill, Rage Against the Machine, Rolling Stones, Ani Difranco, Flaming Lips, Drive-By Truckers, OK Go, Rolling Stones, SCI, Dusty Springfield (well mostly just Son of a Preacher Man), Broadway musicals, the Garden State soundtrack, 90s rap, Leona Naess, Prince, basically anything I can sing along to.
Adventures in Babysitting, Shaun of the Dead, The Departed, Boondock Saints, Braveheart, Seven, Anchorman, Sin City, Grandma's Boy, Ray, Fried Green Tomatoes, Back to the Future (1 & 2; 3, not so much), The Devil Wears Prada, The Weatherman, Good Will Hunting, Garden State, Pulp Fiction, The Sweetest Thing, The Good Sheperd, Just Friends, Wedding Crashers, Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2, Tao of Steve, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Gladiator, 13 Going on 30, The Princess Bride, The Notebook, Mean Girls, A Life Less Ordinary, Blow, Super Troopers, The Girl Next Door, Old School, Memento, The Royal Tenebaums, The Usual Suspects, Donnie Darko, Office Space, Big Lebowski, Lost in Translation, Rushmore, The Aviator, Mallrats, Napoleon Dynamite, Young Frankenstein, Big Fish, A Time to Kill, This is Spinal Tap, Billy Madison, Almost Famous, Cold Mountain, When Harry Met Sally, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Batman Begins, Snatch, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Finding Nemo, Boogie Nights, Dracula, Empire Records, L.A. Confidential, Little Miss Sunshine, A Beautiful Mind, Zoolander, Walk the Line, A History of Violence, Dazed and Confused, ...I watch too many movies (there are probably about 50 more that could go on this list...)
Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, 24, Grey's, Rob & Big, South Park , The Simpsons, the Food Network, Cheaters (seriously--it's the funniest show on TV)
Chuck Klosterman IV, My Horizontal Life, Marley and Me, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs; A Million Little Pieces; Running With Scissors (well basically anything by Augusten Burroughs); My Friend Leonard; Wicked; East of Eden; Harry Potter (all of them); Tess of the D'Ubervilles; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; White Oleander; The Virgin Suicides; I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Lord of the Rings triology; Catcher in the Rye; Prodigal Summer; The Lovely Bones; The Poisonwood Bible; Cold Mountain, Sextrology (I like horoscopes...) Angels and Demons, any David Sedaris, Ordinary People, After the First Death, the Dune series, trying to work my way through Infinite Jest right now...
anyone who works to benefit others; people who remember that every day is a gift, so we should enjoy it. And Kitty Foreman. She's the jam.