Reading anything and everything, the beach (when it's not June gloom), eating, working out, talking about Poughkeepsie and visiting, going out and making trouble, being called trouble, and spending quality time with my wonderful friends (west and east coast)
People who laugh, eat lots of pizza (and burritos), love dirty Jersey, drink beer, have random nights, were born and raised in PK, and don't take life too seriously...
John Legend, Finley Quaye, Interpol, Jem, Lauryn Hill, Ani DiFranco, Common, Postal Service, Coldplay, Maroon 5, Bloc Party, Matisyahu, Blonde Redhead, Editors, Damian Marley, Roots, Jay-Z, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, JT of course...
American Beauty, Love and Basketball, The Breakfast Club, Garden State, Labryinth, The Dark Crystal, Love Actually, Good Will Hunting, Mean Girls, Saved!, American History X, Crash, United States of Leland, Almost Famous, too many to name...
Weeds, Heroes, Nip/Tuck, Law and Order SVU, Entourage, Grey's Anatomy, The L Word, Big Love and in mourning of Six Feet Under and Sex and the City...
East of Eden, Ishmael, In Cold Blood, The Tender Bar, Heart of Darkness, Middlesex, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Bell Jar, Go Ask Alice, The Giver, 1984, all the Harry Potter books, anything by David Sedaris or Augusten Burroughs, YA literature...
My parents and all teachers who are able to stay sane. And my friend Alec who lived his life to the fullest and pushed all the limits.