Designing, reading, building, math word problems, traveling, crosswords, learning new code, conversation, cooking and swearing.
Grown-ups. People who swear well. Well-read, thinking types who are flexible enough to have pulled the stick out of their asses. People who love great humor. And I mean, of course, people who laugh with abandon at the same things I do.
Anything Tom Waits does, Verdi's Il Trovatore, Soundtrack from Hedwig, Buddy Guy, and some of that folkish lesbo music. Anything I can swear to while singing.
Commercials make me homicidal. We rent television series and watch an entire season that way. I am an unabashed CSI junkie. Except that CSI Miami's David Caruso is like poison ivy, shingles and chicken pox rolled into one self-righteous pontificating boil. But the rest of the oversimplified, pop-science, detective shit is so much crack sprinkled on my cereal. I can't get enough.
Just finished In the Shadow of the Ark by Anne Provoost and Connie Willis' Bellwether; have Omnivore's Dilemma and Moby Dick on deck. Moby Dick on deck, I like the sound of that.
Barbara. Molly Ivins. My son and daughter. Anyone who challenges the status quo for something they passionately believe in. Even if Particularly if everyone else thinks they're crazy.