passion, sunshine, rice milk, green grass, edamame, trees (young and old), long beach, bike rides, genuine people, buttered toast (with pringles inside), connections, clouds, canadians, peanut butter cup shakes, agape, notes (both kinds), kisses, vanilla, rain...
(in order of discovery) Queen, Chicago, The Beatles (thank you, charlie...wow...trip and a half), Michael Jackson, Prince, Green Day, Weezer, JACKSON 5 (like candy to my ears), Lauyrn Hill, Sublime, RxBandits, the exit, mad caddies, the format, limbeck, the brazilian girls, bedouin soundclash, the return, facing new york, kings of convenience, RADIOHEAD, fiest, coldplay, iron & wine, keziah jones (amazing, yet unknown. please check him out), esthero, great glass elevator, GDB, elliott smith, ben kweller, the flaming lips, Lex Land, Raj Rasa, dredg, Jordan Moser, Ray Jordan, JEFF BUCKLEY, regina spektor, amy whinehouse, the sea and cake, kenna, DAFT PUNK (times fifty million), Bjoirk...more that I can't think of at the moment... music is not just about the actual sound that hits your ears... it's about the experiences that come along with those sounds.
DOGMA, chasing amy, mallrats... (and i have yet to see the rest of the kevin smith movies, but i'm sure they'll be in here once i see them.) dancer in the dark, garden state, finding neverland, memoirs of a geisha. honestly, i don't get to watch movies much:(, so i can't think of any others... oh, and NOT snakes on a plane.
Arr. Dev. (arrested development!!!! sooo amazing), Lost, 24, Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City, Scrubs, Dirt, and did I say arrested development?
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, basically every book from AP senior english... books which I hated at the time, but love now. also these seem to make a lot of sense to me: the tao te ching, the tao of pooh...
"In the story of the Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he reazlied that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a Swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we can recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. The work with what they've got and do what they can do. There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it. For within the Ugly Duckling is the Swan, inside the Bouncy Tigger is the Rescuer who knows the Way, and in each of us is something Special, and that we need to keep." (Benjamin Hoff)
john lennon. bjork. billie holiday. this pup right here.