human nature, trivia questions, photography, bad reality television, dramatic drum rolls, extravagant meals and dinner parties, good conversation, champagne, clever banter, hunting dogs, biographies and memoirs, good-natured sarcasm, polite children, live music, trees and gardens, art and design
People with good stories, hearty laughs and genuine compassion.
Cake, Audioslave, The Smiths, The Police, Bjork, Postal Service/Death Cab, Mingus, Frou Frou, J Punch, Kristeen Young, Outkast, Fiona Apple, Lamb, Cure, Tom Wait, Prince, John Hiatt, Brubeck, Lucinda Williams, Portishead, Van Morrison, Sublime
The Incredibles,Princess Bride, Groundhog Day, American Beauty, Kundun, Legally Blonde, The Professional, I Heart Huckabees, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, The Royal Tennenbaums, Mean Girls, A Mighty Wind, Marie Antoinette, Usual Suspects, Early Kevin Smith, Snatch, The Thomas Crowne Affair, Amelie, Payback, Napoleon Dynamite, The Life Aquatic, The Fifth Element
Trash: Project Runway, Top Chef, Dr. Who, Eureka, Design Star, Super Sweet Sixteen, Whatever Tommy Tivos for me
Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut, Letitia Baldridge, Mary Karr, Toni Morrison, Fitzgerald, Milan Kundera, Tibor Fischer, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson. Mostly, I've been reading lots of boring event planning textbooks lately.
Abbie the yellow lab, David Tutera & Wanda from the Fairly Odd Parents