I cry when I watch children's cartoons; I.E., "Dumbo."
Music, musicianship, hiene brothers coffee, reading, language-study, art, manga, anime, film, books/literature, politics (it's pretty much love-hate), travel, good conversation and good food, coffee, tea, awkward people, watching other people, coffee, people who wear glasses, photography, rainy days, non-rainy days, coffee, snow, water (not swimming), waiting for trains, daydreaming, subliminal messaging, and again, music, music, music...
All of the wonderful friends I am no longer with and miss horribly; and all the special friends I have crossed paths with, but never met.I'd also like to meet Noam Chomsky/or Bill Maher!Genuine people of integrity/intelligence/humor and heart.
This list will be long and evergrowing/changing. The music I love most is music itself. Gorillaz; Radiohead; The Pogues; The New York Dolls; The Cramps; Gun Club; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; The White Stripes; Nina Gordon; Ella Fitzgerald; Marvin Gaye; The Pillows; Pig Bag; Elliott Smith; The Like Young; Andrew Bird; Eiffel Tower; King Crimson; Pink Floyd; Robert Johnson; Anthony and the Johnsons; The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; Beck; Bonnie Pink; Yoko Kanno; Diamanda Galas; Flogging Molly; The Tossers; Fairport Convention; Heatmiser; Broadcast; Matisyahu; Bright Eyes; The Dandy Warhols; Placebo; Primal Scream; MC5; Gang of Four; Buzzcocks; the Sex Pistols; Lowlights; Supergrass; Raveonettes; Nouvelle Vague; Sleater Kinney; Metric; Serafin; The Dead 60s; The Clash, The Jam; Babyshambles; The Boredoms; The Gossip; Cat Power; The Descemberists/Colin Meloy; Black Mountain; ESG; Tessitura; Leonard Cohen; Nick Cave; Birthday Party; The Ramones; Joe Strummer; The Pixies; Sonic Youth; The Breeders; Le Tigre; some Rilo Kiley; Ditty Bops; Belle and Sebastion; Weezer; The Cranes; Johnny Cash; Feist; Guitar Wolf; Jane's Addiction; Bob Marley; Pavement; Pedro The Lion; Snow Patrol; Bonnie Prince Billy; Palace; Psychadelic Furs; Stereolab; Taxi Taxi; The American Analog Set; Arcade Fire; The Clientele; The Shins; Twin Atlas; Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Broadcast; Howlin Wolf; Stereototal; Viva Le Fete; Shonen Knife; Go!Go!7188; Oppenheimer; Sarah Hepburn; JJ72; Luke Doucet; Mellowdrome; The Models; The Noisettes; Amphetameanies; Sparklehorse; Envelopes; Apples in Stereo/Olivia Tremor Control; Lavender Diamond; Earlimart; Mates of State; Starlight Mints; Thurston MOORE!much, much, much, more! Far too many to type.
City of Lost Children; The Little Mermaid; Dumbo; Peter Pan; The Departed; Donnie Darko; Garden State; Grosse Point Blank; High Fidelity; Closer; March of the Penguins; The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen; The Princess Bride; the Monty Python films; Raising Arizona; Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?; Kill Bill 1 & 2; Tail of Two Sisters; Collage of Our Lives; All About Lily Chou-Chou; Hana and Alice; Silence of the Lambs; The Shining; Blue Velvet; Lost Highway; Ghostworld; Shark Skin Man, Peach Hip Girl; Miller's Crossing; Election; Casablanca; Maltese Falcon; Requiem For A Dream; The Gods Must Be Crazy; The Harry Potter movies; The Last Life in The Universe; Suicide Club; Hotel Rwanda; The Big Sleep; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Edward Scissor Hands; My Own Private Idaho; Boondock Saints etc; Grey Gardens; The Life of Henry Darger; Amelie; The Secret of Nimh; Pan's Labrynth; The Others; Nodame Cantabile (series); Nana (#1); Children of Men; Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill; etc.
CNN; Food Network; C-Span; PBS; and the History channel
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon; Animal Farm/Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell; Harry Potter series; Ms. Rowling; Anything by David Sedaris; Neruda; Stagolee Shot Billy, by Cecil Brown; Devil in a White City, by Erik Larson; Niel Gaiman; His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman; Some Kafka; Sarah Vowel; Patricia Mckillup; Haruki Murakami; Anything Salinger; etc
Robin Hood.