Spending time with my friends, shopping, elephants, shoes, pretty clothes , elephants, reading, watching movies, elephants, crocheting, drinking coffee, elephants, going on Neiman Marcus Online to look up designer shoes I'll never be able to afford, and elephant figurine collecting.
My top three are Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, and Radiohead. My other favs are Tool, Meshuggah, Blood Simple, Cradle of Filth, Muse, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Aerosmith, QUEEN!!, and outside of rock and metal, Tori Amos, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Creatures, Rasputina, Switchblade Symphony, Faith and the Muse, Lycia, Johnny Cash, Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Sia's "Breath Me", Oleander's "Runaway Train", Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and movie soundtracks like White Oleander, A Beautiful Mind, The Craft, Crash, The Crow, Practical Magic, and Pleasantville, and Maria Callas, cause I have a soft spot in my heart for opera.
Anything with Audrey, Unbreakable, Gypsy83, KILL BILL, Bully, Little Women, Velvet Goldmine, The Deer Hunter, White Oleander, Cube, Cube Zero (but NOT Hyper Cube!), The Crow, Requim for a Dream, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, The Omen (original), The Amitiyville Horror (the original), The Exorcist, Leon The Proffessional, Suicide Kings, all 3 LOTRs, X-men movies, Bang Bang Your Dead, AMERICAN HISTORY X, The Believer, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders in Robin Hood Hills, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 187, SAW, The Ice Storm, Mystic River, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Mists of Avalon, Interview With the Vampire, Candyman, anything with Denis Leary, Nicole Kidman (although I did suffer through Dogville), Christopher Walken, Julianne Moore, Samual L. Jackson, anything with Johnny Depp, the walking dead, vampires, Christopher Lee, witches, ghosts, etc, etc... Sunset Boulevard, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jezebel, Pumpkinhead, Black Christmas, Jacob's Ladder, Predator/Predator 2, The House on Haunted Hill (original), Beauty For Sale, Ginger Snaps Casablanca...And, of course, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, and East of Eden.
The Shield, Rescue Me, Night Court, Will and Grace, Golden Girls, home makeover shows, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sex and the City, OZ, Becker, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU (Grrr, Christopher Meloni), Court TV, Prison shows, Prison Break, Family Guy, the Simpsons, Daria, Charmed, Frasier and Still Standing.
The Remains of the Day, The Way the Crow Flies, White Oleander, Fall on Your Knees, The Dogs of Babel, anything by Francesca Lia Block, Poppy Z Brite (I love the G-man and Ricky series), Christa Faust, Stephen King (esp when he's writing autobiographically), true crime books, anything by James Patterson, anything by the Dalai Lama, reminiscing by re-reading books I read when I was younger, and believe me, there's WAY more I've forgotton...
My dad, for always being there for me no matter what, the Folgers coffee people, the makers of chocolate and chocolate products,Trent Reznor, Thom Yorke, and Tori Amos.