A sense of wonder, good food, my bicycle, making and playing video games, dancing my ass off, giggling, Java the Mutt, tattoos, language and languages, The Church of Brunch, writing, goth without the emo, critical theory, design, whiskey, nesting, passion, watching the sun come up, Dubya on a stick, poetry, and really short fiction.
Stand-up guys. Sit-down comediennes. Wayward pit bulls. Idea people. Go-getters. Rose-smellers. Glue-sniffers. Recovering slam poets. Dancing revolutionaries. The Intelligentsia.
My taste in music has multiple personality disorder:
Nina Simone, Asylum Street Spankers, The Stantion Warriors, PJ Harvey, Nitzer Ebb, The Smiths, A Tribe Called Quest, Lamb, Cannonball Adderley, Bjork, Portishead, Massive Attack, Sinead O'Connor, Yo Yo Ma, Regina Spektor, Johnny Cash, Etta James, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Dresden Dolls, The Cure, LCD Soundsystem, Esthero, John Brown's Body, John Coltrane, Bob Marley, Front 242, Mos Def, TV on the Radio.
And that's just for starters.
I've got a thing for films that make me feel (like I've been punched in the stomach):
Boys Don't Cry, Requiem for a Dream, The Sound of Music, The Professional, Elvira Madigan, Annie Hall, Love Jones, The Incredibles, Lilo & Stitch, Best in Show, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Ong Bak, Death of a Salesman, Scratch, Girl on the Bridge, Oldboy.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on DVD. Veronica Mars, downloaded from an illegal server in an undisclosed location.
Perennial favorites: The White Boy Shuffle, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Everything Is Illuminated, Sightseeing, Presenting... Sister Noblues, Jitterbug Perfume, Invisible Man, Maud Martha, almost anything by T.S. Eliot, Martin Espada, or Bukowski, and Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
Currently reading: Dread by Ai and Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis, the reading of which proves that I am in fact a masochist.
On deck: Persepolis I & II by Marjane Satrapi, and Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology by Hilary & Steven Rose.