Books, records, dancing, cocktail jewelry, coffee, whiskey, and some people. Also slumber parties and holding hands.
Bookworms.
Always: Cat Power, Interpol, Neko Case, 60s rock, and Motown. Currently: Animal Collective, Adrian Orange and Her Band, Aesop Rock, Deerhunter.
Rushmore, The Princess and the Warrior, Amelie, American Psycho, and The Shining. See also: documentaries; anything stylized, cheesy, funny, smart, or gory. I am also disturbingly enamoured of subtitles.
Project Runway, Law & Order, and The Office (both versions).
The Lover, Marguerite Duras; The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy; The History of Love and Man Walks into a Room, Nicole Krauss; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer; Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri; An Invisible Sign of My Own, Aimee Bender; Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach; The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier.