Johnny Depp. Swimming. Spacing-out. People-watching. Coloring. Watching sports, particularly hockey and tennis. Knitting (now if I could just get the yodeling and accordion-playing down, I could officially call myself a party animal). Watching movies. I LOVE SHAKESPEARE. Harry Potter. 80s nostalgia. Marble Slab. Chick-fil-A. BBQ. Michael Moore (TV and movies). Dave Barry. Rollercoasters. Drinking. Enjoying any of the aforementioned interests while drunk. PBS (I miss Bob Ross and Justin Wilson), NPR, and Coast to Coast AM when I can stay up that late. Cherries or anything cherry-flavored, especially red cherry ICEEs. Cats. Turtles. Hyperbole (it's the BEST thing EVER).
People who aren't afraid to be themselves. Anyone with whom I don't have to fake it. . . I'm talking about things such as interest and laughter, you perv. Johnny Depp. Guys who wear glasses. People with cable.
60s Soul, 80s New Wave, Brit Pop, Blues, Classic Country. . . Some of my favorites are: Nineteen Forty-five, Built to Spill, The Pixies, The Afghan Whigs, The Cure, The Pretenders, The Replacements, Elvises Costello and Presley, REM, Spiritualized, Outkast, Mercury Rev, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Camper van Beethoven, Tub Ring, The New Pornographers, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Blur, Beck, Bjork, They Might Be Giants, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Smiths, U2, Beulah, Timesbold, Jonathan Richman, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, The Format, The Jackson Five, Nina Simone, New Order, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Dean Martin. P (ok, so now I'm just trying to see how many times I can mention Johnny Depp). I'll like anything that evokes some positive emotional response in me. I WORSHIP AND ADORE STEPHIN MERRITT.
Christopher Guest, John Hughes, John Waters, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick, Coen brothers, Noah Baumbach, Neil LaBute, Whit Stilman, David Mamet, Charlie Kauffman, David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Mel Brooks, Rob Reiner, Ivan Reitman, Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh, Amy Heckerling. Foreign films, especially Asian cinema (Chan-wook Park, Tran Anh Hung, Ang Lee, Akira Kurosawa, John Woo), KUNG-FU MOVIES! Sci-fi and horror movies (zombies are so scary), Johnny Depp! Primer, Lone Star, Frailty, Frantic, Secretary, Donnie Darko, eXistenZ, I Heart Huckabees, Dead Man on Campus, Trainspotting, Dog Day Afternoon, Office Space, The Monty Python movies, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Serenity. Amelie. Stripes, Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers (actually anything old or new with Bill Murray--love him!). Harold and Maude. Big Trouble in Little China. Better Off Dead. Real Genius. Say Anything. Heathers, Pump Up the Volume, Gleaming the Cube. 007 (oh James) movies. The Dark Crystal, The Secret of NIMH, Labyrinth. PIXAR animated movies. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH--A MUST-WATCH FILM.
Joss Whedon is a god--Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly. Northern Exposure. Six Feet Under. Dead Like Me. X-Files. Lost. Arrested Development. Malcolm in the Middle, Twin Peaks, Simpsons, Family Guy, The Tick, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Pinky and the Brain, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mystery, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Mythbusters, Digging for the Truth. 21 JUMPSTREET (Johnny Depp). I abhor reality TV. Really, I loathe it. CURRENTLY LIVING SANS CABLE OR SATELLITE OR ANTENNA OR REASON TO GO ON LIVING.
Southern Gothic novels (Faulkner, O'Connor, Lee, Welty). Mark Twain's and Tennessee Williams' oeuvres. Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, The Awakening, The Stranger (actually read it in French), The Catcher in the Rye, Heart of Darkness, The Color Purple, Things Fall Apart, Of Mice and Men, London Fields, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, A Winter's Tale, Portnoy's Complaint (any book with an apostrophe in the title), Cryptonomicon, House of Leaves, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Harry Potter and Shakespeare. LotR. Kabuki graphic novels. A Confederacy of Dunces is my favorite book.
Russell, Carl Sagan, Art Bell, Dan, and Batgirl.