traveling, driving, drawing/sketching, oil painting, cooking, baking, drew, watercolors, galleries, movies, new york, drinking, concerts, dancing to music i really like, self-pity, coffee and making up cool coffee drinks at work, spanish language, cats (both as food and as pets), poland, lodz, new jersey, santa fe, sleeping, lying in bed, making mini videos of everything, crossword puzzles and sudoku, acting middle aged, dangly earrings, eddie izzard, brian regan, trying to get myself motivated for almost two years now
aida, the album leaf, arcade fire, armin van buuren, the beatles, black eyed peas, bloc party, bt, coldplay, the cure, daft punk, damien rice, dashboard confessional, death cab for cutie, dispatch, dixie chicks, dj tiesto, DNTEL, nick drake, the editors, electric light orchestra, eminem, enya, fairport convention, figurine, fiona apple, the flaming lips, bela fleck and the flecktones, fleetwood mac, frou frou, gipsy kings, the go! team, goldfrapp, gorillaz, guster, head automatica, lauryn hill, hot hot heat, imogen heap, iron & wine, jimmy eat world, norah jones, journey, the killers, kings of convenience, ben kweller, lali puna, jens lekman, lisa loeb, m.i.a., bob marley, john mayer, the mamas and the papas, mazowsze, mogwai, van morrison, moxy früvous, muse, my chemical romance, natalie merchant, new order, nine inch nails, the notwist, O.A.R., oceanlab, orbital, ozma, phoenix, the postal service, queen, rabbit in the moon, radiohead, rent, rilo kiley, the rolling stones, rx bandits, neil sedaka, selena, simon & garfunkel, frank sinatra, smashing pumpkins, snow patrol, regina spektor, spice girls, styrofoam, tool, travis, underworld, the wallflowers, weezer, thom yorke
The Adventures of Milo & Otis, Airplane, Amelie, Angela's Ashes, Arsenic & Old Lace, Art School Confidential (even though the ending is questionable), Babel, Chicago, Final Fantasy, Flight of the Navigator (best movie EVER), Forrest Gump, Garden State, The Gods Must Be Crazy I and II, I Heart Huckabees, I Robot, The Jerk, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Knocked Up, Life is Beautiful, Little Miss Sunshine, all of the Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Love Actually, Madame Butterfly, Mean Girls, Mirror Mask, Monsoon Wedding, Monster House, Moulin Rouge, My Fair Lady, Napoleon Dynamite, Ocean's 11, Ocean's 12, Office Space, Once, Pieces of April, Princess Mononoke, No Country for Old Men, Rabbit Proof Fence, Ratatouille, Requiem for a Dream, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Schindler's List, Serendipity, Shaun of the Dead, Sliding Doors, The Sound of Music, Spirited Away, Thank You for Smoking, There Will Be Blood, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Top Secret, Volver, The Waitress, Walk the Line, Whale Rider, X-Men, X2
The Gilmore Girls, every kind of Law & Order (old and new), Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords, Freaks & Geeks, Family Guy, Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, The Simpsons, Veronica Mars, Stella, and Saved By the Bell and Hey Arnold are pretty cool too...
I don't read enough... but I have enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden; Shopgirl by Steve Martin; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; anything by Roald Dahl or P.L. Travers or Shel Silverstein (hurray for children's books!); Different Dances by Shel; Dave Barry cause he's funny; I liked Girlfriend in a Coma up until the end and then it sucked; His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman; In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
anyone making money by doing what makes them happy