theatre, classic films, hiking, camping, NPR, old Hollywood, enneagram, anglophilia, The New York Times, HBO, the BBC, Coachella, TiVo, reading, watching old movies in a cemetery, misanthropy, "Troll 2" quotes, Disneyland, the cognitive reinforcement of self-worth, cathexis, talk radio, grotesquery, all things Dickensian, dogs, analysis, swimming, lounging sans clothing, bold moves, hotel rooms, road trips, laying in the sun, synchronicity, romanticizing life, pontification, the male of the species, soy alternatives, schadenfreude, "Judy Speaks", fat kid moments, being hermitic, Grande Dame Guignol, kombucha, potheads, the iliac furrow, Dadaism, sweet melancholy, gay revolutionaries, KCRW, Pinks, The New Beverly, Saddle Creek, Team Love, Righteous Babe, Elephant 6, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Fosse, Woody Allen, Sondheim, Ruthie Henshall, Monty Python, The Talent Family, Joel Cohen and Ethan Cohen, Phil Hendrie, Denham Fouts, The Fondas, The Edith Beales
Those who are honest, authentic, open, inquisitive, stimulated, kind, thoughtful, hilarious, intellectual, and mature, but also don't take themselves too seriously. I like being around people who I can be constantly learning from, and those who foster growth, both in themselves and others.
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As they are fond of saying, it's an infectious disease...
Rufus Wainwright, Rilo Kiley, Ben Folds (+/- the Five), Jenny Lewis, The Elected, Josh Ritter, Bright Eyes, Dresden Dolls, The Decemberists, Randy Newman, Sondre Lerche, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, Bob Dylan, Margot & The Nuclear So and So's, Cold War Kids, matt pond PA, The Shins, Spoon, Guster, Willy Mason, Nellie McKay, Radiohead, The White Stripes, The New Pornographers, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, The Essex Green, Martha Wainwright, Ben Kweller, My Morning Jacket, The Streets, Janis Joplin, Magnetic Fields, Cursive, of Montreal, Travis, Pulp, Gus Black, Mason Jennings, Neko Case, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Fratellis, Okkervil River, Klaxons, The Apples In Stereo, Robyn, Belle and Sebastian, Feist, Loudon Wainwright III, Brian Wilson, Nick Drake, Ron Sexsmith, CSN(Y), Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, ABBA, Judy Garland, Peter Allen, Ella Fitzgerald, Ute Lemper, Edith Piaf, Carpenters, Betty Hutton, Ann-Margret.
I also have an unadulterated love of musical theatre, highlights therein being: Sondheim (God among men), Kander & Ebb, and Will Finn.
All About Eve, Grey Gardens, Hannah and Her Sisters, Sunset Boulevard, Cabaret, The Big Lebowski, On Golden Pond, Gone With The Wind, The Life of Brian, Annie Hall (suffice it to say the entire Woody Allen oeuvre), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Chicago, Bullets Over Broadway, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Life is Sweet, Mary Poppins, A Streetcar Named Desire, Billy Elliot, Reds, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Happiness, American Psycho, Murder By Death, The Out of Towners (1971), Goodfellas, The Meaning of Life, Dazed and Confused, Ghostbusters, Pollyanna, The Producers (1968), Kill Bill, Night of the Hunter, Fargo, L.A. Confidential, Psycho, The Apartment, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Clue, Harold and Maude, Back to the Future, Muriel's Wedding, My Girl, South Park: BLU, The Last Picture Show, Airplane!, Hair, Poltergiest, Love and Death, Sideways, Primary Colors, Grumpy Old Men, Fried Green Tomatoes, Anchorman, The Squid and the Whale, Tarnation, Little Miss Sunshine, Nine Lives, The Departed, The Queen, Year of the Dog, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, and of course, TROLL 2
Absolutely Fabulous, Deadwood, French & Saunders, The Comeback, Six Feet Under, Designing Women, Strangers With Candy, Seinfeld, Weeds, Big Love, The Office (UK and US), Everwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Vicar of Dibley, Arrested Development, The Sopranos, 30 Rock, My Life on the D List, Project Runway, Peep Show, The Catherine Tate Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Smoking Room, Dexter, South Park, Real Time with Bill Maher, Kids in the Hall, The Sarah Silverman Program, Upright Citizen's Brigade, Little Britain, Fawlty Towers, House of Cards, anything with Tracey Ullman, All In The Family, Reno 911, Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, Laverne and Shirley, Mama's Family
The works of David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Augusten Burroughs, Truman Capote, Larry Kramer, Salman Rushdie, Sarah Vowell, Jerry Stahl, Larry McMurtry, Christopher Isherwood, Charles Dickens, Terry Pratchett, Marcel Proust, and Tennessee Williams.