things that are pretty, funny, and yummy (but not things that are all three at once). Oh, and our pretty little girl! :)
people that are low-maintenance and high-creativity, friends from the past, and deep-pocketed companies who hire freelance writers. Hotcha!
I was a classic rock DJ in college for 2 1/2 years, so I dig that stuff. I'm also into angsty chicks (Eleni Mandell, Fiona Apple, "Under the Pink"-era Tori Amos), music sung in foreign languages (Pizzicato 5, French pop, 60s Bollywood numbers), unclassifiables (Gogol Bordello, Danielson), stuff that sounds old but is new (The Strokes, The Bird and the Bee) and clever, non-pop-y musicals (things like SPELLING BEE, not WICKED).
I tend to favor '60s mod films, Busby Berkeley musicals (especially ones with Ruby Keeler), stuff from the Golden Age of Hollywood, anything with the young Cary Grant, Betty Grable, Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe, all of the Jean Arthur things I've seen, campy musicals, and Bollywood and French imports. If we're talking the last 30-odd years, I'd say the original Star Wars trilogy, the Harry Potter series, the Lord of the Rings series, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Donnie Darko, Spirited Away, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Chicago, Cabaret, The Apple and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort all made big impressions. (At least, they made big enough impressions to come to mind right now.)
Usually watching: DEGRASSI HIGH, DR. WHO, HEROES, HOUSE, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, LOST, MY NAME IS EARL, THE OFFICE, PUSHING DAISIES, 30 ROCK, TORCHWOOD. On loan from Netflix: BIG TRAIN SERIES 1. -- I own a lot of British shows on DVD; the list is really scary. Let's just say that I watch all of the good British shows, especially the blackest of the black comedies, and I do not watch British shows that are soaps and/or involve social-climbing suburban women, football players' wives, old people and Graham Norton. (You know which ones those are.)
Off the top of my head I'll name Leaves of Grass, Tao Te Ching, the Harry Potter series, Intuition, Women in Love, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, The Know-It-All and A Confederacy of Dunces as books I've enjoyed. Genre-wise, I read plays, celeb biographies and autobiographies, autobiographical comedy essays, short stories, and Asian philosophy/religion. I'm trying to integrate more fiction into the mix, but three magazine subscriptions and television addiction are slowing me down.
People who are awesome, successful, and awesomely successful. People who like their day jobs. And Katharine Hepburn.