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Writing. Skepticism and debunking of pseudoscientific claptrap. Celebrity gossip blogs. Dodger baseball. UCLA football. Extreme weather. Hawaii. Amateur astronomy. Horseback riding. Refining the game of Texas Hold 'Em to work to a woman's best advantage. Reality television. "Rome." Rome. Big waves and clear water. Audio books. US Weekly. My Nissan Frontier.
Screenwriters who are passionate about their work, skeptics and others in the scientific community, and people I once went to school with.
The Beatles, Roy Orbison, The Muse, Bloodhound Gang, Bob Marley, Green Day's "American Idiot," Alice in Chains, Republica, Chris Isaak, Mendelssohn, George Strait, Tim McGraw, Terri Clark, The Dance Hall Crashers, Christina Aguilera's "Stripped," Kelly Clarkson, Gwen Stefani, The Click Five, ABBA, 90s big beats, stuff you forgot ever came out until you heard it over the dentist's office loudspeakers (e.g. Jann Arden's "Insensitive,") The Go-Gos, House of Pain's "Jump Around," the soundtracks to Les Miz, Phantom, Rent, Moulin Rouge, Wicked. Oh, and Open Road Love Affair, those guys are awesome!
Okay, here we go. The Respected: Schindler's List, Bonnie & Clyde, The Sting, Laura, The Uninvited, The Haunting, Clockwork Orange, Amadeus, Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, The Wild Bunch, Fargo, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, The Shining, L.A. Confidential, Election, Momento, Sense and Sensibility, Bull Durham, The Player, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shakespeare in Love. The Less Respected: Swimming with Sharks, Adaptation, Office Space, Romeo & Juliet, Old School, The Wedding Singer, The American President, The Devil Wears Prada, Out of Sight, Can't Hardly Wait, Mean Girls, Clueless, Pretty Woman, Groundhog Day, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Princess Bride, There's Something About Mary, Sliding Doors, Bad Santa, The Scarlet Pimpernel...and Unlawful Entry.
Candid Reality: The Amazing Race, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Survivor, 30 Days, Laguna Beach. Stop trying to tell me that Laguna Beach is not candid.Scripted Reality: What Not to Wear, Explorer, Barefoot ContessaScripted: The Office, The Simpsons, RomeOther: Dodger games, the World Poker Tour
In order to keep this list from being 312 items long: anything by Pat Conroy, the historical fiction of Philippa Gregory, Stephen King, Richard Dawkins, Katherine Harrison, Chuck Palahniuk, Charles Bukowski, pop science books, thinly veiled memoirs by women bloggers I admire, Wally Lamb, and most especially Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World."
Carl Sagan, Michael Shermer, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris. Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Charles Bukowski, Rita Dove. Mozart, Verdi, Lauridsen, Mendelssohn. My grandmother and mother, for breaking ground in new fields of women's liberation.