I'm a bum.
I also support this guy in any (legal) way I can. So should you.
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Twisted humor. Movies/Movie-geeking. Traveling. Croatia. Thoughtful, passionate people. Reading. Making things out of odd and unexpected materials, MacGuyver style. Drawing. Long conversations with my favorite people. Kung-fu-ing with abandon. Chicago food and fun. eHow.com. Learning how to (literally) balance, as I'm a clutz. Good sushi and hearty cocktails. Horror flicks. NBA basketball (go Kings). Garage sales. Fun words like "callipygian" (you won't be disappointed when you look it up) and "defenestrate." The History Channel and the Turner Classic Movie channel. Spelling bees. Stealing candy and kicking people in the shins (Yeah!). www.fair.org. Taking pictures. Restaurant and food communities. The endless source of awe and fascination that is William Shatner. The art of exaggeration.
Nikki at age 20 to slap her upside the head... and myself at ages 22 and 25 (especially 25..yikes) for the same reason.
Also... Joss Whedon.
Stephen Colbert.
Dolly Parton.
People who agree that Peeps are NOT candy.
Good conversationalists.
People who are geeky about what they love.
Jokesters.
Carousers.
Rabblerousers and good arguers.
Troublemakers.
Creative, passionate, kind, genuine people who care about the world.
Bums, Louses, and even some Pigs.
And this man (Zidane!), just because:
Some favorites: Elvis freakin' Costello, Wilco, The Jesus and Mary Chain, the "Talk to Her" soundtrack, The Pixies, old Oasis, Al Green, David Bowie, EARLY MICHAEL JACKSON, the Supremes, Motown in general, Jeff Buckley, BRMC, Belle and Sebastian, Dolly Parton, Carina Round, Ryan Adams, Pete Yorn, Social Distortion, NIN, The Smiths, Joy Division, Arcade Fire, Nick Drake, The Velvet Underground, Prince, The Carpenters, Johnny Cash, The Stone Roses, Elliot Smith, Travis, BLUR, Journey (I can't help it), Sam Cooke, 80s cheese/hair bands, Sufjan Stevens, 70s Funk, 70s Folk/Country. I'm not ashamed to admit that my all-time favorite song to which to dance is Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T."
In no particular order...Rear Window, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, old musicals (especially Top Hat and Swing Time), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (sigh), The Warriors (seeing this at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery was one of the coolest experiences of my life), The Apartment, Lost Weekend, Children of Men, Double Indemnity, Harold and Maude, The Big Lebowski, All About My Mother, Zero Effect, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Dawn of the Dead, Wonder Boys, Elf, Pride and Prejudice (BBC Version), Born Into This, The Princess Bride, all Alfonso Cuaron movies (even HP 3), Freaks, A Christmas Story (RIP, Bob Clarke), Hoop Dreams, Bubba Ho-Tep, Little Women (1994 version), Goodfellas, The Conversation, Bride of Frankenstein, American Psycho, The Royal Tenenbaums, Magnolia, Ghostbusters, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Roman Holiday, THE APPLE, Shawshank. I'll see any Christian Bale movie because he makes fun choices. Movies that are so bad, they're good...and more.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, always and forever. The Office, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Frontline, 24, Rescue Me, 30 Rock, Lost, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Extras, MST3K, Arrested Development. I'm still putting a hit out on the CW for canceling GG and Veronica Mars.
Pride and Prejudice, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, To Kill A Mockingbird, Women Who Run With the Wolves, The Stand, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, A Confederacy of Dunces, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Ask the Dust, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, London Fields, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, The Virgin Suicides, Lovely Bones, Henry Rollins, the Harry Potter books, any Roger Ebert book
The people over at www.fair.org. "Anyone who is kind and brave." The inventor of Diet Pepsi. My mama. My friends. Your mom.