Colorful sunrises, Indian food, facing in an Easterly direction, and building my now 5 year-old business, Sapphire & Sage
Others who have an intense hatred of computer-animated animals
OLDIES BUT GOODIES (in chronological order as far back as I can remember):
Men at Work, The Fixx, Devo, Journey, Duran Duran/Arcadia, Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, A Flock of Seagulls, Prince, LL Cool J, Morris Day & the Time, Jesse Johnson's Review, The Ramones, Public Enemy, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths/Morrissey, Depeche Mode, New Order, Electronic, Revenge, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Lords of Acid, Consolidated, KMFDM, Meat Beat Manifesto, Cocteau Twins, Cause & Effect, Xymox, Borgeshia, A Split-Second, CCCP, Portishead, and old school (pre-glow stick) techno...just to name a few.
STUFF CURRENTLY GRACING MY ROCKIN' MINIVAN WITH THEIR MUSICAL PRESENCE:
Radiohead's "OK Computer" and "The Bends", The Smiths' "The Queen is Dead" and "Strangeways Here We Come"
MOVIES THAT STILL MAKE ME GIGGLE, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I'VE SEEN THEM
"Monty Python & the Holy Grail"
"Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"
"Ghostbusters", I and II
"Sixteen Candles"
"Overboard"
"The Golden Child"
"Bring It On"
"Napoleon Dynamite"
"Eurotrip"
MOVIES I WATCH EVERY TIME THEY'RE ON TV, IF FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN TO DRIVE MY HUSBAND CRAZY
"Roll Bounce"
"A Knight's Tale"
"Total Recall"
"Stargate"
"12 Monkeys"
"Bend It Like Beckham"
"Independence Day"
"Twister"
"Shawshank Redemption"
"28 Days Later"
"Drumline"
"Stand by Me"
"Ever After"
"The Running Man"
"You've Got Mail"
"A League of Their Own"
MOVIES THAT MUST BE VIEWED WITH EVERY LIGHT IN THE HOUSE ON AND SOMEONE NEARBY TO GRAB ONTO, EVEN IF IT IS ONLY A CAT
"Poltergeist", I and II
"The Ring"
"The Eye" (Japanese, with subtitles)
Stephen King's "It" (crazy scary for a made-for-TV movie)
"Prince of Darkness", (hands-down the scariest movie *ever* made)
Ghost Hunters, Dirty Jobs, Eureka, Most Haunted, Ugly Betty, Lost, Medium, Mummy Detectives, No Reservations, Bizarre Foods, Dresden Files, South Park, Supernatural, Dog Whisperer, Digging for the Truth, Hot Rocks, Bones, The 4400, Blade, and pretty much anything on the National Geographic, Science, and History Channels.
And may the gods help me, but I just LOVE Suze Orman.
But I'm still super-ticked that "Keen Eddie" (check i=out the repeats now running on Sleuth)and "G vs. E" didn't get picked up for second seasons. Those shows were just *way* ahead of their time.
Anything to do with historical society and art....more a "job hazzard" kind of thing than for fun, really.
My kids. They're all total goobers, but they each proudly wear their goobiness like a big, golden badge of honor.....covered with sparkly rainbow glitter.....and wiggly eyes.