Music, music, music, film, art, books, things that go fast, fine food, photography, dance, anything and everything Japanese, cats, rediscovering things, autumn leaves crunching under my feet, drinking, writing, people who aren't afraid to be silly, listening to the rain, martini/sushi lounges, being in the water, international travel, economics, rolling down hills, flopping around in the snow, architecture, running, foreign languages, other cultures, automobile and aircraft design, biochemistry, the Nature Conservancy, Amnesty International, and anything else generally nerdy.
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Fun people who do crazy shit.
1. BT
2. Sade
3. Ayumi Hamasaki
4. Anberlin
5. Christina Aguilera
6. Paramore
7. John Mayer
8. Esthero
9. Alicia Keys
10. Sara Bareilles
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By no means all inclusive, but I don't have all day:
Above & Beyond
Acceptance
Air
Alicia Keys
All American Rejects
Amy Grant
Anberlin
Armin Van Buuren
Ayumi Hamasaki
Bayside
Bjork
Boys Like Girls
Breaking Benjamin
BT
Carl Cox
Christina Aguilera
Christopher Lawrence
Citizen Cope
Coldplay
Craig David
Crossfade
Daniel Bedingfield
Danny Howells
Death Cab for Cutie
D:Fuse
Dido
DJ Icey
Donald Glaude
Errol Garner
Fiona Apple
Flyleaf
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Gwen Stefani
Hellogoodbye
Hybrid
Imogen Heap
Incubus
Jennifer Lopez
John Mayer
Jojo
Karrin Allyson
Kaskade
Keane
Kelly Sweet
Kids in the Way
L'arc~en~ciel
Mariah Carey
Mario
Massive Attack
Michael Buble
Michael W Smith
Mika Nakashima
Milosh
Moby
Motion City Soundtrack
MuteMath
Ne-Yo
Nina Simone
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Orbital
Oscar G
Paramore
Pete Tong
Portishead
The Postal Service
Rage Against the Machine
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
telepopmusik
The Red West
The Starting Line
Robin Thicke
Sade
Sara Bareilles
Shiny Toy Guns
Sneaker Pimps
Snow Patrol
Spoken
Switchfoot
Taxi Doll
Telepopmusik
Theivery Corp
Timo Maas
Tool
U2
Vanessa Carlton
William Orbit
And about a million others...
Way too many to list here but Kill Bill 1 and 2, Pulp Fiction, Ikiru, Match Point, Bridget Jones Diary, Lost in Translation, Last King of Scotland, The Wedding Crashers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Hotel Rwanda, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Star Wars Trilogy (the original one, not the recent crap), The Tripletts of Belleville, any of Wallace and Grommit, short or feature length, Baraka, Smoke Signals, Waking Ned Devine, Tampopo, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Love Actually, The Princess Bride, Legend of the Falls, Garden State, Shawshank Redemption, La Dolce Vita, and Blades of Glory.
HGTV, Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet, NHK, BBC, and America's Next Top Model. Damn TV.
Anything by David Sedaris, Haruki Murakami, Micheal Crichton, Milan Kundera, Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Jacobs, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Micheal Burns, John McPhee, Leo Tolstoy, Dan Brown, John Grisham, and Jane Austen. Also A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (excellent), Teaching the Dead Bird to Sing by W. Paul Jones, Stiff by Mary Roach, and Memoires of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
Oh yes, and Harry Potter kicks ass.
Buy me either one of these, and you can be my hero.
...until that time its Terje Haakonsen:
or Hello Kitty: