Theatre, Yoga, Music, Philosophy, Road trip adventures with my husband, Dancing in gay bars because they have the best music and the least obnoxious men, Hiking, Anything that has to do with being near water - ocean, lake, river, bathtub, you name it - i like it, Acupuncture (receiving, not giving), Massages (giving and receiving), Reading, Writing, but not Arithmetic, Acting, Studying something new, Art Noveau, CarTalk and This American Life on NPR, I recently have taken up knitting and my scarf is looking damn good, Jewelry Design (who knew?), Mountain biking, Singing, Good conversations with with people who are stimulatin', come to think of it - stimulation period :)
Ghandi, William Shakespeare, Cate Blanchett, President Andrew Jackson, Barbara Kingsolver, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Johnny Cash and June Carter-Cash, Daniel Day Lewis, Sting, Ann Lamott (I MET HER LAST MONTH!), Prince William, Robert Haas, Joan of Arc, Ira Glass, St. Augustine, The Car Talk Brothers, Henry the VIII so he could be told that it was really his cursed DNA that wouldn't give him a boy, not all the wives he killed.
This could go on forever...Over the Rhine, Sting, The Police, U2, Imogen Heap, Guster, Bjork (LOVE her), The Killers, Keith Jarrett, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Annie Lennox, Ben Folds, Tool, Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, Queensryche (from my angst-filled middle school days) Neil Young, The Doves, Ani DiFranco, Johnny Cash, Sade, Matisyahu, The Indigo Girls, The Smiths, Fugees, Fall Out Boy, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Posies, Sarah McLachlan, James Taylor, The Arcade Fire, The Cure, My Morning Jacket, Bob Dylan, Big Country (mostly for...Big Country), Soul Coughing, Gorillaz, Kanye West, The Fray, Philip Glass, John Coltrane, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Vic Wooten, Coldplay, The Beastie Boys, Tori Amos, Kenna, The Sundays, Modest Mouse, Smashing Pumpkins, Norah Jones, Tom Waits, Diane Krall, Kings of Leon, Postal Service, Cat Power, Ingrid Michaelson, Shiny Toy Guns, Badly Drawn Boy...to be continued
City of God, The Fisher King, The Whole Wide World, Big Fish, Dancer in the Dark, Love Actually, Le Pac de Lup, A Walk on the Moon, Scotland PA, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Time Bandits, The Last Unicorn (childhood faves), The Last of the Mohicans, Sideways, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Walk the Line, The Nightmare Before Christmas, My Life as a House, About a Boy, Life is Beautiful, Waiting for Guffman, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Punch Drunk Love, 12 Monkeys, Donnie Darko, Magnolia, Garden State, Hustle and Flow, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno
Friday Night Lights (much more than football, but I am from a small football town, remember - give me a break!)Gilmore Girls (because it's so fast and funny, and they have the most current political references of any sitcom), The Daily Show, That 70's Show, Scrubs, Mythbusters (because you can take the girl away from the nerds, but you can't take the nerd out of the girl), Shark Week on Discovery Channel, Sex in the City (I have Tivo'd all the reruns because we've always been too poor for HBO), Antiques Roadshow (I said I was a nerd), Ellen (on days I'm bored and don't want to contribute to the Oprah dynasty), House and the occasional guilty reality-show thrown in for escape.
Traveling Mercies, Collected works of William Shakespeare, The Bean Trees, Siddartha, Middlesex, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Saints and Villains, On the Road, This Much I Know is True, Nine Stories, A Prayer for Owen Meaney, Until I Find You, The Prodigal Summer, St. Augustine's Confessions, The Prydain Chronicles, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Song of Solomon, The Lovely Bones, Shopgirl, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Poisonwood Bible, ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE - THIS BOOK IS AN EXPOSE OF THE RIDICULOUS EXCESS AND WASTE OF OUR "HAVE IT NOW" SOCIETY - READ IT!!!!!!!!!!Now we're into playwrights - Eugene O'Neill (Desire Under the Elms is my favorite), Tennessee Williams (Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen is my favorite), Sam Shepard (Curse of the Starving Class - favorite), Henrik Ibsen (Ghosts - favorite), Craig Wright, Brooke Berman, Emily Mann, Moliere, Peter Shaffer (Amadeus), Tom Stoppard, Keith Reddin
My husband, My daddy, because he built an airplane - really, Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator, people who die for what they believe in, Jen Schmeid for raising twins, my sister for being brave, Dawn Davis for following her dreams, Holly McKanna for writing about things most people won't admit, my great-great Aunt Mary for living a devout Catholic life because she felt that was best and going to Jerusalem when she was 83 years old, and the Red Queen for being a kick-ass mom (and wife!) and joint ruler of the universe.