Well, if I were a contestant on Jeopardy!, the ideal categories in the first round for me would be: Commonly Misspelled Words, The Color Wheel, Saved by the Bell, Ratios and Proportions, Cities in Sweden, and Brands of Peanut Butter. And in Double Jeopardy: Punctuation, Pop Artists, Apple Computers, Kitchen Gadgets, Hitchcock Films, and Beatles Song Lyrics. And in Final Jeopardy: English Grammar.
Someone to feed me peeled grapes. OK fine you don't have to peel 'em beforehand.
The Raveonettes, The Album Leaf, Brendan Benson, Calexico, Iron & Wine, Patsy Cline, Depeche Mode, Frank Sinatra, Hall & Oates, Massive Attack, Prince, The Cure, David Bowie, Queen, Mazzy Star, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Bjork, Portishead, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, James Brown, Ween, Beck, Blur, Radiohead, The Pixies, Beastie Boys, The Cars, Tori Amos, Cibo Matto, Sade, Stevie Wonder, Pinback, Fiona Apple, Belly, The Smiths and various others
Little Miss Sunshine, The Goonies, Office Space, Amelie, Happenstance, Punchdrunk Love, About Schmidt, Big, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Vertigo, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Charade, Shaun of the Dead or any zombie flick for that matter, Kill Bill I and II, silly stupid stuff as well as "deep" foreign films and documentaries ...
Fine. I'm currently watching Survivor. And reruns of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
I'll read anything about communication, language or words, English grammar and usage, writing, art and design, modern home decor, strange-but-true facts or random trivia, and, since I work for one, I read the daily paper.
My Swedish grandmother, 79 years old and still swimming laps in the morning, taking painting classes at night, traveling several times a year, and always laughing.