Learning and teaching, reading, writing, making art, taking photos, dancing (bellydancing, Latin dancing, swing dancing, breakdancing, etc.) traveling, hiking, biking, thrifting, vintage clothing (esp. 40's and 50's) eating yummy Veggie and vegan food, good (visually or verbally rich) movies, working with middle schoolers, people-watching, anthropology, sociology, psychology and cultural studies, religion, history, quantum physics, human and animal rights, surrealism, philosophy, scrabble and other board games, singing (by myself and with other people), playing piano badly, art museums and galleries, philosophizing, overthinking, misadventuring, laughing
Late-night philosophers, dance partners, backup singers, travel buddies, and passionate, interesting people in general to have fun and crazy (mis)adventures with.
Older Stuff Like: Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Billy Holliday, Count Basie, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, The Beach Boys80's Stuff Like: Depeche Mode, Information Society, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Electronic, The Cure, The Smiths, Psychadellic Furs, Dead or Alive, Madonna, Prince, Siouxsie, U2, REM90's stuff like: Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, Weezer, B52's, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Blur, Radiohead, Bjork, Juliana Hatfield, Liz Phair, Mazzy Star, The Verve, Oasis, Mono, Portishead, Eels, Beck, The Digable PlanetsNewer Stuff Like: Belle and Sebastian, Detroit Cobras, Le Tigre, Sigur Ros, April March, Postal Service, Franz Ferdinand, Queens of the Stone Age, The Rapture, Coldplay, The Faint, The Dandy Warhols, The Vines, Brazillian Girls, Annie, Tegan and Sarah Also: assorted Trance-y dance-y stuff, Turkish House, Baltimore Club, anything I can shake my ass to!
Ghost World, What the Bleep?, Dark City, High Fidelity, Dazed and Confused, Spellbound, Jawbreaker, Hairspray, The Royal Tannenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, Saved!, Amelie, The Good Girl, Garden State, Rize, Marie Antionette, everything by Tim Burton (because it is all visually stunning), assorted documentaries and eye candy (yummy scenery, cinematography, costumes, special effects....)
Here and there, I get my doses: Project Runway(for my love of design) Six Feet Under (for the goth in me) Sex in the City (for a dose of friviolousness), Northern Exposure (for spirituality) and the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Robot Chicken, and Family Guy (for absurdisim).
The Poisonwood Bible, High Tide in Tucson, She's Come Undone, Cat's Eye, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Franny and Zooey, Slaugterhouse 5, Nervous Conditions, The Corner, Fast Food Nation, Nickel and Dimed, Kaftka's short stories, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Me Talk Pretty One Day, ee cummings collected poems, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color Purple, The Virgin Suicides, The Wayward Bus, Ishmael, Confederacy of Dunces, Ironman, Ways of Seeing, The Lovely Bones, Small Wonder, Confessions of a Southern Daughter, Couldn't Keep it to Myself, Running with Scissiors, Hypocrite in a Poufy White Dress, Piece of Cake, Eat-Pray-Love, assorted confessional poets, writing with lots of vivid imagery, autobiograpies and memiors of various interesting people
PJ Harvey, Barbara Kingsolver, Arlen Barr, Chris in the Morning from Northern Exposure