B-movies, scary movies, theatre, magic, making out until lips tingle, champagne, fondue, outsider art, history, Shakespeare, theme parks, surprises, circuses, cabaret, side shows,haunted houses, mythology, legend, beer @ the ballpark, hockey, Chicago Cubs, yoga, House of the Dead, XGames, french fries, comedy-improv/sketch/standup, renaissance art, outer space, mojitos, underworlds, driving fast, mountains, rain with thunder and lightening, stars, sundown, deep night, driving, a sound sleep, dreams.
My head would explode trying to make this list. Music is my world, and I'll listen to anything at least once, and there's room in my heart for much more.
Zeferrelli's Romeo & Juliet, Amer. Psycho, Fight Club, Five Pennies, Iron Man, Peter Pan (2003), Swoon, Priest, The Krays, Midnight Run, Muppet anything, Final Destination, Res Dogs, Wizard of Oz, Some Like it Hot, Rebel w/o a Cause, Harry Potters, Borat, Requiem for a Dream, An American in Paris, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Half Nelson, Anchorman, Made, Lake House (shut up), Trilogy of Terror, Scream, Halloween (inc. Zombie's physical interpretation), Michael's Moore's work, Pretty in Pink, Midnight Express, 300, Battle Royale, the real Pink Panthers.
Love: Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Daily Show & Colbert Report, MadTV, anything Ken Burns does, Family Guy, Best Week Ever (brilliant comedic commentary), Human Giant (fantastic freaks), The Office, all TLC and THC, Squidbillies, Tim & Eric Awesome Show-Great Job, Boondocks, Metalocalypse, South Park, Meerkat Manor (RIP Flower), Reno 911, Torchwood, Def Poetry Jam, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Jim Cramer, The Soup (only thing good about E!), Dexter, Weeds, 30 Rock,cPushing Daisies, TWKYK. OK, fine - and Project Runway. And Top Chef. Damn you - and What Not to Wear. What passes for news nowadays - screaming inside. Missing: Arrested Development, The Wire, Strangers with Candy, Trailer Park Boys and Chappelle's Show.
Vertigo comics,Carter Beats the Devil, anything Hans C. Andersen, Savage Beauty, Coraline, Harry Potters, First Folio, I Lucifer, The Bell Jar, Winesburg Ohio, The Memoirs of Cleopatra, The Sexuality of Jesus, Night, Lamb, Houdini, Naked, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius..., Valley of Bones, The Gnostic Gospels, Sex with Kings, The Secret Life of Bees, I Am America..., The Shakespeare Wars, Uncommon Arrangements. Sarah Vowell is a Goddess. Chuck Klosterman and Chuck Palahniuk could blow their noses in paper and I'd look at it. Rock On, Warped Passages, The American Plague, Secret Lives of the US Presidents. Currently reading The Knife Man, about one of the first surgeons.
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt WhitmanWalt's pretty idealistic but he's got an idea. We've completely redefined that word since 9/11. Could be a teacher. Could be a first responder. Or the guy who helps an old lady cross the street. Our troops. Caregivers. Lately I feel if you live another day without harming yourself and anyone else, you're doing OK. But if you live a day and ALSO elevate the safety, comfort, intelligence, creativity, health and/or wealth of someone else, even better and you can be hero for a day.