Shiny objects I find on the ground, smelling things, petting friendly beasts, playing nice, watching where I'm going, training crows to rob people at ATM machines, cut'n'paste art, baking cookies, trap shooting, playing pool, eating cheese, watching silly movies (especially if they have kung fu+vampires or kung fu+zombies).
Someday I'd like to rule the world.
I mean: save the world.
No: rule.
No: save.
Rule.
Save.
Rule.
Save.
Tap-dancers, beer-drinkers, and people who know who Richard Feynman is. People who are Kind. People who are Smart. People who are Funny. People who know how to Fix or Build Stuff. People who know Things I Don't. People who have Cool Stuff I can borrow.
Jacques Dutronc, Smoosh, M. Ward, Stereo Total, Mates of State, The Fakes, Elliott Smith, CocoRosie, Smoke, Duran Duran, Jon Brion, The Vandals, Leo Kottke, Blackalicious, Screaming Cyn Cyn and the Pons, The Suit, Merrick, Knuckel Drager, Awesome Car Funmaker, Cheap Trick, The Arge, Supertramp, Artie Shaw, The Dials, Goat Radio, Faghat, Billy Squire, Nina Simone, Dave Dean's Musical Forklift, TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies, Mule and old school Polka.
Cool Hand Luke. Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Serenity. The Wrong Guy. American Astronaut. Le Samurai. Killer of Sheep. Yes Nurse No Nurse. The Animation Show. Happiness of the Katakuris. Staying Alive. The Twins Effect. Dragon Tiger Gate. Mechanical Violator Hakaider. Mr Vampire. Yaji & Kita: Midnight Pilgrims.
TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies. Life on Mars. Father Ted. Firefly. Old Perry Mason episodes. MacGyver, duh.
Ravens in Winter, Golden Compass, Cadillac Desert, Companero, The Idiot, Don't Worry He Won't Get Far on Foot, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Reckoning with Homelessness, Red Mars, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Hunger, Going Down with Janis, Growth of the Soil, Affluenza, The Fateful Triangle, anything by Daphne duMaurier.
The selfless, the brave, and the kind.