Organic vegetables, flooring materials, crafting ;), permaculture, cooking, making music,xeriscaping, cultivation of native plants, watching people, dogs, attempting to sew, reading good books, architecture, camping, brewing and laughing my ass off.Oh yes and of course ...... Semi-Louise but I suppose that falls into the making music part.
Dorothy Parker, Toshiro Mifune, Charles Rennie MacIntosh, Wallace Shawn, Vladimir Ussachevsky, the chef who murdered Frank Lloyd Wright's wife, Franz Liszt, Nikola Tesla, Jeff Bridges and Divine; preferably at a dinner party catered by Antonin Careme.
Mary Margaret O'Hara, XTC, M.I.A., Archers of Loaf, Devo, Deodato, Zepplin, Billy Preston, T-Rex, Otis Redding, The Zutons, Animal Collective, Mr. Cash, Talking Heads, Eric Satie, The High Dials, The Postal Service, The GO Team, Lady Sovereign, Bill Withers, Digital Underground, Cat Power, Kate Nash, TV on the Radio, King Neptune, The Smiths, CCR, Underworld, Steve Reich, Spellcaster, Wolf Parade, Lavern Baker, Big Mama Thornton.
Tampopo
The Big Lebowski
Night On Earth
Secretary
Midnight Cowboy
Seven Samurai
Spirited Away
Amelie
Napoleon Dynamite
Babette's Feast
sucks.
The Third Policeman-Flann O'Brien
A Cook's Tour -Anthony Bourdain
Armistead Maupin's Tales of The City
Salt, A World History - Mark Kurlansky
Probably more, but I haven't read a book that's really changed my life in a while. Any suggestions?
Ramona Quimby, Emma Peel, Chrissy Hinde, and XTC