Antagonizing people who take things too seriously, Soup, Immortalizing beautiful moments with my camera, People who make fun of perverted issues by telling perverted jokes, Overcoming personal weaknesses, Mood music, Swapping anecdotes over merlot, Tear inducing laughter, Early morning rain, The smell of honeysuckle, The Art Institute, Riding an ocean wave, Live music, Gourmet coffee, Sand between my toes, Starry nights, A child's smile, Earth tones, Traveling The Shawnee National Forest or Southern Illinois Wine Trails, An understood phrase at a glance, Brown haired boys who have blond baby pictures, Pretty people with good personalities, Mad skills, Hot showers, Public radio, Procrastinating, Sunday crossword puzzles, Constructive criticism, Chewing crunchy food with my mouth open, Reading, Traveling to the city (usually Chicago or St. Louis), Road Trips in general...
Phish, Dave Matthews, Ben Harper, Ben Folds Five,The Dead Milkmen, Sublime, Razorlight, The Beatles, Janes Addiction, NIN, Red Hot Chili Peppers, George Clinton, Fleetwood Mac,
Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Jamiroquai, Ani Difranco, David Bowie, Dean Martin, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Franz Ferdinand, She Wants Revenge, Tool, The Strokes, Radiohead, Bob Marley, The Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Bjork, Violent Femmes, Widespread Panic, DePeche Mode, Lou Reed, Rusted Root, Liz Phair, Morphine, Blind Faith, Ray Lamontagne, Jack Johnson, John Mayor, Primus, The Cure, Luscious Jackson, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, The Doors, Beastie Boys, The Clash, Dispatch, Rachel Yamagata, Moddest Mouse, Keller Williams, Wolfmother, Sonic Youth, 10,000 Maniacs, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tori Amos, Donovan, Frank Zappa, Massive Attack, Fiona Apple, Otis Redding, Tom Waits, Portishead, Sade, Interpol, the Cure, Wilco, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, The White Stripes, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Talking Heads, Ween, The Roots, The Postal Service, My Bloody Valentine, Bloc Party, The Moldy Peaches, The Mountain Goats, Spoon, The Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Rage Against The Machine...
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Kurt Vonnegut; Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-5. Moon Zappa; America The Beautiful. Jeffrey Eugenides; The Virgin Suicides. Sue Miller; While I Was Gone. Wally Lamb; She's Come Undone. James Frey; A Million Little Pieces. Deborah Spungen; And I Don't Want To Live This Life. Cookbooks from the 60's - 70's, Judy Blume teen girl stuff, the classics like Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lolita, Great Expectations, 1984, Lord of The Flies, A Clockwork Orange, Of Mice and Men... Dr. Seuss' The Lorax and If I Ran The Zoo. The Giving Tree, Where the Wild Things Are, A Light in the Attic. Anything C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carol, or T.S. Eliot. Chuck Palahniuk; Diary, Fight Club, Choke. Stephen King and Clive Barker short stories...