anatomy, arithmetic, awkwardness, beauty, becherovka, being irresponsible, bones, borat, cajones, canoeing, capoeira, chad and trixie, coffee, confusion, cribbage, crochet, dancing, desert, dia de los muertos, discipline, dorothy parker, drawing, dreams, emma goldman, fashion, feminist theory, finding a home, fire, folk arts, frantisek kupka, garlic, gender studies, good deals, good food, good influences, good posture, harrison ford, having a good time, infatuation, installation art, jim campbell, kara walker, katharine hepburn, kissing, knitting, las vegas, libraries, love, making fun of boulder, meaningful work, microeconomics, museums, nerds, nachoes, not being broke, online quizzes, parmasen cheese, pasta, poland, postcolonial theory, pretty little things, quilting, revolutionary art movements, rocking out, saunas, science stuff, second-hand clothes, semicolons, semiotics, sewing, sex politics, shakespeare, social anarchy, spinach, storytelling, stupid grins, sun, surrealist games, sushi, taking care of business, taking things out of context because it's funny, taquerias, textures, things that smell good, various crafts, warm weather, waves, wine, women's studies, yerba mate, yoga.
Leningrad cowboys.
the beatles, talking heads, michael jackson, frances gall, the sonics, bjork, the white stripes, fela kuti, the coup, ella, nina, the cramps, atmosphere, the shins, frank sinatra, tom waits, ray charles, prince, the arcade fire, cibo matto, outkast, beck, blondie, django, sex pistols, michael jackson, sleater-kinney, tigre and bunny, pink martini, cornershop, dracula, a band of bees, mice parade, clap your hands say yeah!, animal collective, nouvelle vague, the isley brothers, patsy cline, wanda jackson, bikini kill, the doors, michael jackson, lady sovereign, the avalanches, the clash, bis, wu-tang, towa tei, the femmes, dead milkmen, the books, the rapture, michael jackson, aesop rock, the supremes, buddy holly, sonic youth, johnny cash, the shins, dolly parton, hank williams, the jackson 5, typical cats, devo, andrew bird, calexico, nikko case, britney spears, girl talk, mos def, the jesus and mary chain, michael jackson, nancy sinatra, erykah badu, motown, stax-volt, cock rock, samba, hiphop, jazz, hank williams, the yeah yeah yeahs, architecture in helsinki, the velvet underground, beribau, zap mama, justin timberlake, dosh, ratatat, akron/family, the steve miller band, os mutantes, michael jackson, of montreal, parliament, booty-shakin music, whatever's going on around me, mixtapes from anyone, all kinds of random stuff.
bringing up baby, the royal tennenbaums, rosemary's baby, little shop of horrors (both), casablanca, fight club, indiana jones, adam's rib, trainspotting, roger corman stuff, woody allen stuff, six-string samari, borat, the princess bride, i heart huckabee's, the kill bills, planet terror/death proof, romy and michelle's high school reunion, the secret lives of dentists, sleeping beauty, cabaret, brick, monster, rabbit-proof fence, eternal sunshine, stuff by bruce conner, michel gondry stuff, starsky and hutch, zoolander, heathers, pulp fiction, the beaver trilogy, the cremaster cycle, bed and board, 40-year-old virgin, me and you and everyone we know, any midnight movie or drive-in screening, other stuff i'm forgetting.
BIG LOVE, wondershow zen, the golden girls, three non-blondes. the young ones, freaks and geeks, strangers with candy. aqua-teen hunger force, the kids in the hall. star trek, and, logically, mst3k.
who'm I kidding: anything on a dvd or on the internet, especially shows that are easy to make drinking games for.
and who'm I kidding: all that HBO crap.
inferno, the last samari, yvonne vera, dorothy parker, i'm kind of a shakespeare dork, zadie smith, neil gaiman, virginia wolfe, roald dahl, unberto eco, haruki murakami, david sedaris, william gibson, margaret atwood. anything with pictures (but mostly neil gaiman).
any literature involving stitches and patterns.
Amy Sedaris. Dolly Parton. William Shatner. My friends and co-workers.