Good Thai food, Jane Austen, old British writers, skydiving, Nintendo, scuba diving, camping, vegetarianism, forensics, anime, crosswords in pen, more Nintendo, tattoos, rpgs, poetry(reading/writing), lit crit,Sudoku, Hello Kitty, Transformers, Brian Froud, women's issues, human/animal rights, subverting the dominant paradigm...oh, and your mom.
Jane Austen. Virginia Woolf. ee cummings. Bonnie Parker. The Romanovs. Dr. Michael Baden. Jim Henson. Mr. Rogers. Gina 'Crush' Carano. Diablo Cody. John Cusack. Mariska Hargitay. .. Get Your Own MySpace Countdown Generator at Tech-FAQ.com
BAUHAUS.VNV Nation.Apoptygma Berzerk.Depeche Mode.KMFDM.Soil&Eclipse.Lords of the New Church.The Smiths.New Order.Pogues.Pixies.Lamb.Imogen Heap.Shiny Toy Guns.Decemberists.The Organ.Okkervil River.Metric.Birthday Massacre.Royksopp.Placebo.Rilo Kiley.Noah&the Whale.Le Tigre.The Gossip.Gravy Train!!.The Misfits.Descendents.Sham 69.The Vandals.Murder City Devils.Toots & The Maytals.Desmond Dekker.The Specials.They Might Be Giants.Sunny Day Real Estate.Team Dresch.Joan Jett.Pansy Division.Jim Carroll Band.AC/DC.Thin Lizzy.Steve Miller Band.The Who.The Streets.Beastie Boys.Northern State.Lady Sovereign.Mickey Avalon.Outkast.Regina Spektor.Ani Difranco.Erin Mckeown.Tegan & Sara.Dar Williams.Tori amos.Jeff Buckley.The Who's Tommy.Rent.Wicked.Jesus Christ Superstar.Chicago.Les Mis.
GARDEN STATE!,Princess Bride,Dirty Dancing!,Vanity Fair,Fahrenheit 9/11,Say Anything,Identity,Grosse Point Blank,The Matrix,Amelie,But I'm a Cheerleader,Star Trek:Generations,Beautiful Mind,Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,City of Lost Children,Dream For An Insomniac,Tank Girl,Dark Crystal,Labyrinth,Secret of Nimh,You've Got Mail,When Harry Met Sally,Mannequin,He Loves Me He Loves Me Not,All Over Me,Queen of the Damned,Prey For Rock and Roll,Fiddler on the Roof,Hackers,Hellraiser(esp. 1st one),Boondock Saints,Strangeland,Original Star Wars trilogy,House of Mirth,Twelfth Night,Ghost in the Shell,Hellsing,Princess Mononoke,Grave of Fireflies,Silence of the Lambs,Evil Dead,House of 1000 Corpses,So I Married an Axe Murderer,Juno,Reservoir Dogs,Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,Saved!,Saving Grace,Gaslight,Citizen Kane,Breakfast Club,Ghostbusters,Sixteen Candles,Lost Boys,Office Space,Pride & Prejudice
SVU!,Ghost in the Shell:Stand Alone Complex, Adult Swim, CSI!, Cold Case, Forensic Files, Autopsy, Dead Like Me, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy,Boston Legal,House,NCIS, Lost...no longer on and sadly missed: Star Trek:TNG, X-Files, My So-Called Life, Freaks & Geeks, Absolutely Fabulous!, Twin Peaks,Quantum Leap, Square Pegs, 70s-era Sesame Street, featuring lovable furry Grover. Oh, and anything on Food Network or Bravo. Even if it's about paint drying, I'll get sucked into watching it.
Walt Whitman.David Sedaris.Dave Eggers.Augusten Burroughs.Jane Austen.Virginia Woolf.Henry James.Arthur Golden.Alice Sebold.Michele Tea.Chuck Palahniuk.JK Rowling.Thea Hillman.Sherman Alexie.Dr. Michael Baden.Mary Roach.Jessica Snyder Sachs.Mary Wollstonecraft.Betty Friedan.Linda Smukler.Alan Kaufman.ee cummings.Edna St. Vincent Millay.WH Auden.Edgar Allan Poe.Robert Frost.Shakespeare.Anything on forensics.
Margaret Sanger, Meena Kamal, Ossie Davis, Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Joe Hill, Cesar Chavez, and my mother...because the world is a better place because they were/are in it.