Reading. Altering/rearranging/growing/discovering/analyzing/construct ing/deconstructing objects and myself. Avoiding conflict and stress. Listening to NPR all day on the radio while I'm delivering auto parts. My children and their endlessly fascinating and freaky brains. Figuring out how to stay positive in a deranged and decaying society. Reading foreign newspapers online. Crocheting headbands, over and over again. Bleaching my hair. Painting my fingernails unnatural colors. Drinking coffee with too much sugar and cream. Practical and impractical shoes. Wool. Costuming. Animals. Skulls. Alterna-everything. Writing. Art.
People who say and do things that interest, amuse or enlighten me, and yet don't expect a whole hell of a lot in return since I'm kind of busy, actually. Which isn't very gracious of me, since my expectations are high, though as these pertain more to who a person IS, as opposed to what they do for me specifically, it's not quite as awful as it sounds. But I'll do my best.
The good kind. Which would disqualify most rap, hip hop and country, naturally.
Semi-creepy, thoughtful ones that involve character development. Funny, stupid ones that make me laugh until I just possibly wet myself. Grand costumed historical ones that make me envy the wardrobe or which enhance my understanding of another place and/or time. Movies made from books I've read so I can worry over all the things they cut. The ones I actually get to see???? Those? Oh, okay, they usually involve penguins or other inane, anthromoporphic animals illustrating the worst in our society because I don't want my kids to be clueless about cultural references and blame me for it.
I do own one. But my son and husband also own a Playstation. Which means I can honestly say I don't watch tv. But I won't lie, I would probably find something to watch on it if I had the chance, since there are moments when I don't mind lying down and being passively entertained.
David Foster Wallace, Mark Danielewski, Scarlett Thomas, Chuck Palahniuk, Robert Pirsig....Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin...Yukio Mishima...H.P.Lovecraft, Brian Lumley, Anne Rice, E.A.Poe....Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Hesse, Richard Brautigan..D.H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde...hard to narrow it down, this week vs.last year vs. growing up vs. the rest of my life, I rarely meet a book I don't like, but only a few I can't ever forget.