ghosts; spirits; ghost stories; karaoke; foisting out-of-pitch voice on audiences during karaoke; gawking at people; driving late at night; social justice; human rights; progressive politics; mainstream politics; mundane quizzes; mulling over random ideas; armwrestling to prove scrappiness; board games; charades; political rants; trashy romance novels about the regency period; music; frenetic dancing; robotic dance moves; stimulating conversations; thrift stores; rummaging; the internet; sentimental films; foreign films; French; Spanish; Chinese; Vietnamese; any language; being serious; making sweeping, generalized statements; thinking about leaving the country all the time; trying to leave the country all the time but failing abysmally
Pyramid scheme peddlers. Dive bar crooners. Insurgents. Urbane, suave nerds & geeks. Urbane, suave, clever nerds & geeks. Urbane, suave, clever, witty nerds & geeks. Other kinds of nerds & geeks. Pundits. Trash-talking talking heads. Progressives with soul. People with an inordinate amount of nervous energy. People who want to get laser eye surgery. People who give recyclable material to the homeless. People who can teach me extreme sports and slang. People who think they can beat me soundly at board games and armwrestling. People who will beat me soundly at board games and armwrestling. People who will allow me to pry. People with a lovely dry wit. Shamans. Healers. Psychics. Tarot/Palm readers. And persons who are humorless, but charmingly so.
The Pet Shop Boys. The Cocteau Twins. Talking Heads. The Flaming Lips. The Pixies. Slowdive. Mercury Rev. My Bloody Valentine. Apparently shoegazing stuff. New Order. Joy Division. XTC. Echo and the Bunnymen. T-Rex. Electric Light Orchestra. Royksopp. Erlend Oye. The Avalanches. The Stylistics. The Delfonics. Philly Soul. 70's power ballads. Synth Pop. Indie Dance.
It Happened One Night. Alice Adams. Guys and Dolls. Midnight Cowboy. 12 Angry Men. Bridge over the River Kwai. Amelie. Billy Elliot. The Sure Thing. About a Boy. Before Sunset. Before Sunrise. Babe. This is Spinal Tap. Requiem for a Dream. Shawshank Redemption.
Love in the Time of Cholera. About a Boy. The Handmaid's Tale. Jane Eyre. Checkhov short stories. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Non-Fiction. Muckraking exposes. Cultural History. Social History. Intellectual History. Sociology. Anthropology. Evolutionary Psychology. Metaphysics. Ghost Stories. Cultural Criticism. International Affairs. Essays. Trashy romance novels about the regency period.
Activists. Adventurers. Innovators. My father.