art, music, city living, thrift stores, yoga, buddhism, my cats, the first snowfall each year, scavenging for things to paint on, ethiopian food, ragging on the president, record albums, old things, new places, traveling, seemingly insignificant events, day to day life, working with children, living in the moment.
bright eyes, modest mouse, velvet underground, prince, the jayhawks, white stripes, the pixies, anthony hamilton, nick drake, new order, janes addiction, chris bell, big star, morphine, jeff buckley, wilco, uncle tupelo, mazzy star, portishead, cake, van morrison, david bowie, tom waits, the verve, soul coughing, the beatles...
boogie nights, bob roberts, valleygirl, almost famous, harold and maude, american beauty, the jerk (my childhood favorite), jacob's ladder, breaking the waves, royal tennanbaums, unbearable lightness of being, happiness, lost in translation, in the company of men, eternal sunshine, garden state, spinal tap...
big love, john from cincinnati, project runway, heroes, the office...
Running with Scissors, Confederacy of Dunces, Happy Baby, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, almost anything by Milan Kundera, Herman Hesse, Chuck Palahniuk. Recently read Lord Vishnu's Love Handles by Will Clarke and Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down. Just picked up Augusten Burroughs' Possible Side Effects and Christopher Moore's A Dirty Job.