Music--either playing or listening, Reading, Theatre, Art Museums, Movies, Live Shows!!, Boggle (nerd, I know), finding a new restaurant, getting worked by high schoolers in basketball, pretending to be a photographer with a point-and-shoot, the portrait Sandy by Walt Kuhn, enormous close-ups of Miles Davis on my wall. My current guilty pleasure is Stick Cricket online (http://www.stickcricket.com). I don't quite understand the game at all, but I'm getting pretty good....I think.
Someone who isn't bothered when you take the long way home. Someone who understands that good music extends past what MTV tells you is good. Someone who is attempting to make the world they live in better, instead of just consuming. I'd also love to meet the people who thought up Burger King's Croissanwich--quite simply the best fast food breakfast sandwich EVER.
Aqualung, Sufjan Stevens, Spoon, Troubled Hubble, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Aretha, Matt Pond PA, Eisley, Mae, Steve Taylor, Ben Folds, Death Cab, Augustana, The Killers, Cool Hand Luke, Pavement, Ella Fitzgerald, Romantica, Olympic Hopefuls, Sleeping at Last, Elliott Smith, Magnet, Josh Rouse, Pedro the Lion, Brandtson, The Frames, Walking Concert, Jeff Buckley, Sunny Day, David Gray, Wilco, Radiohead, Beatles, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Mingus, Medeski, Martin, & Wood, The Arcade Fire, Winterpills, The Kinks, The Faces, The Postal Service, Ryan Adams Nada Surf, Dylan, Wheat, Guster, Nickel Creek, Foo Fighters, The Glad Version, Led Zeppelin, Love-Cars--does anyone know who this band is?, Jimmy Eat World, Pete Yorn, and others.
Garden State, Eternal Sunshine, any Wes Anderson movie, Big Fish!!!; LOTR, any John Cusack film (besides Con Air), Ocean's Eleven, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, Charade, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, Empire Records, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dr. Strangelove, Shakma, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Zoolander, and a guilty pleasure of Bond films--but only when there's a marathon of some sort on one channel or another.
Arrested Development, Mythbusters, Conan, Daily Show, I love the 80's, MacGyver, American Gladiators, Monk, Pimp My Ride--but only the ones with the old paint and body guy.
No Man is an Island. After that, we have The Last Gentleman, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, LOTR, anything by Bill Bryson, C.S. Lewis, Philip Yancey, Brennan Manning, G. K. Chesterton, Henri Nouwen, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy
Jesus, Rich Mullins, Musically: John Lennon, Jeff Buckley, Jeff Tweedy, Neil Young