music and everything involved with it (listening to it, collecting it, going to see it, etc), knitting, drinking tea, comic books, writing, photography, art, radio, getting and sending postcards
Levon Helm!!!!!!!!Wayne Coyne so I could give him a hug for this and so many other songs...
Only a minor list, but a list all the same:Ryan Adams, Afghan Whigs, American Static, The Anomoanon, Tori Amos, Antony and the Johnsons, Arcade Fire, Asylum Street Spankers, The Avett Brothers, The Band, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, The Bird and the Bee, Black Mountain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bonnie Prince Billy, Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, David Bowie, Bright Eyes, Jeff Buckley, Kate Bush, Captain of Industry, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Catfish Haven, Nick Cave, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Concrete Blonde, Death Cab for Cutie, Decemberists, The Dirty Three, Donovan, Nick Drake, Dresden Dolls, Drive-by Truckers, Bob Dylan, The Elected, Fiery Furnaces, Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, Flyaway Minion, Flying Burrito Brothers, Grandaddy, Greenhornes, Guided by Voices, Steven Gullett, Emmylou Harris, Her Space Holiday, Ida, Iron and Wine, Etta James, Jim Yoshii Pile Up, Damian Jurado, Janis Joplin, Kings of Convenience, Jenny Lewis, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Sondre Lerche, Low, Magnolia Electric Co, Jason Molina, Mount Eerie, My Brightest Diamond, My Morning Jacket, Nina Nastasia, New Pornographers, Stevie Nicks, Of Montreal, Okkervil River, Will Oldham, Oneida, Gram Parsons, Tom Petty, Pine Top Seven, Pink Floyd, Portishead, The Professors, Rilo Kiley, Secret Life of Painters, Secret Machines, Shrug, Simon and Garfunkle, Elliot Smith, Smashing Pumpkins, Songs: OHIA, Sonic Youth, Sparklehorse, Devon Sproule, Sufjan Stevens, The Submarines, Sun Kil Moon, Talking Heads, Teddy Thompson, Twilight Singers, Uncle Tupelo, John Vanderslice, Velvet Underground, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Whiskeytown, Wilco, Brian Wilson, Denison Witmer, Neil Young, The Zombies,
High Fidelity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Almost Famous, I Heart Huckabees, The Last Waltz, A Mighty Wind, Once, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Science of Sleep, Devdas and assorted other Bollywood films
Little time for tv these days, but some old favorites on DVD include: Sports Night, The X-Files, Carnivale, Arrested Development, Wonderfalls, The Muppet Show, WKRP
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, The Inferno by Dante, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland, The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. Currently reading Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
Jean Grey is pretty cool. Really that can apply to anyone who can move things with their mind. Try as I may, I have yet to develop this ability.
...but Jean Grey's also got the whole deadly Phoenix Force thing going for her....well, and the whole hot redhead thing...