Writing, reading, movies with fantastic dialouge and those without, the 20s, the 50s, good ol' jazz music, sky diving, cold nights, hot mornings, honesty, spontaneous trips, success, passion, objectivism, showering with the window open, sleeping underneath a fan, the fourth call, the first call, decisions, reasons and understanding, humble teachings and proud learnings, questions and answers, unprompted dialogue, confidence, sleeping on the couch, lying on the roof, smoking in a pool, headrubs, concrete and glass, defamiliarization, grocery shopping together, not giving up
Ayn Rand
Nat King Cole, Coleman Hawkins, Count Bassie, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Billy Holiday, Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Jay Brannan, Anastacia, Cher, Shania Twain, SheDaisy, Rascall Flatts, Breaking Benjamin, Goo Goo Dolls, Gretchen Wilson, Melissa Etheridge, Tori Amos, Kim English, Whitney Houston, Nickelback, No Doubt, The Rocket Summer, Cher, Save Ferris, Stereo MC, Postal Service, etc. ad nauseum
Hairspray, Closer, Pride and Prejudice, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Hunt for Red October, Shortbus, Sister Act, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Another Gay Movie, Alien Resurrection, Halloween, Halloween: H20, Brokedown Palace, Saw, Saw II, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Garden State, Ghost, Goldeneye, Two Week Notice, Notting Hill, In the Land of Women, Elizabeth, Prime, The Life of David Gayle, Conspiracy Theory, The Pelican Brief, Memento, Eye of the Beholder, Entrapment, etc. ad nauseum
Will and Grace, The Golden Girls, Law and Order: SVU, The King of Queens, Friends, The Nanny, I don't have TV....
Shakespeare, Dorothy Alison, Ayn Rand, Christopher Rice, Jane Austen, William Faulkner
Charlotte, Kyky, Chaz, Lezlie Laws, my parents