Theatre, Patience, Wisdom, Anthropology, Ethnographies, Islam, Virtues, Rollins College, Never looking back, Having no regrets, Dancing like you mean it, Liberalism, Using the F word as a middle name, London, Ministry of Sound, Choral Music, PWAJTDGTSWOP, Aesthetically pleasing things of all sorts.
I met her. She's perfect. I'm madly in love, and engaged!
Oh, far too many to list. A few highlights include: Show tunes, The Cook Trio, Ben Folds, John Rutter, good choral music, Shawn Jesseman, classical, Regina Spektor, Metric, OK Go, Cherry Poppin' Daddys, Franz Ferdinand, The Cardigans, The Postal Service, Coldplay, Acappella groups, Incubus, The Beatles, Annie Lennox, Emma, Vinyl Orange, to name a few...
Pulp Fiction, Garden State, Singin' in the Rain, Little Miss Sunshine, The Philadelphia Story, Thank You for Smoking, Brokeback Mountain, Office Space, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, History of the World Part 1, Fight Club, Se7en, Dr. Strangelove, Love Actually, Snatch, Run Lola Run, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Waiting for Guffman, Young Frankenstein
South Park, Family Guy, Little Britain, BBC World News (giant dork, I know), and anything on HBO, especially The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and Big Love
Anything by e.e. cummings, Edward Albee, H.L. Mencken, George Orwell, T.S. Elliot, and Bret Easton Ellis, including Less Than Zero, 1984, No god but God, Down and Out in Paris and London, Why I Write, The Bluest Eye, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama, and The Informers. Other favorites include A Clockwork Orange, On Bullshit, The Rebel, Diary, Twilight of The Idols, The Stranger, The Inferno, Night, Choke, Lullaby, The Bell Jar, Why I am so Wise, Language in Thought and Action, The Anti-Christ, and How I Paid for College. Favorite plays include (but are in no way limited to): Glengarry Glen Ross, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Lonley Planet, Smash, Chapter Two, The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance, Doubt, Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Othello, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Noises Off!, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ivanov, The Trojan Women, Sight Unseen, Dinner with Friends, I could go on, but I'd be here all night...
Alea Figueroa is my hero.