art, greek mythology, new york in the fall, my bedroom desk, too-pretty-to-eat desserts, learning to cook by watching the food network, enjoying company in silence, city streets, jazz music paired with candlelight and soul food, chinese checkers, foreign films, west coast sunsets, road trips with intriguing company, regular museum visits, traveling without a map, silence, lazy saturdays, pushing past the pain and going all out, outbidding someone by one second on eBay, the subtle click-whirr my camera makes when I take a picture, rain and that thing it does on the roof, salt in the air and the residue it leaves behind, randomness
frank sinatra, nat king cole, sarah brightman, joss stone, etta james, diana krall, billie holiday, jack johnson, ben harper, travis, coldplay, india arie, amos lee, morcheeba, esthero, christina aguilera, dirty vegas, wax poetic, goldfrapp, poloroid, bent, baz, kelli ali, open door, erland oye, magnet, postal service, controller controller, stereophonics, eva cassidy, nikka costa
2001: a space odyssey, a clockwork orange, dr. strangelove, indiana jones, the godfather, alice in wonderland, catch me if you can, collateral, finding nemo, shrek, grease, kill bill, lord of war, minority report, shawshank redemption
24, alias, lost, csi, desperate housewives, smallville, sex and the city
the tipping point, blink, freakonomics, the culture code, anything by douglas coupland, graphic design for the 21st century, why we buy, the glass castle: a memoir, the 7 habits of highly effective people
my grandpapa: just because, anne frank: because she inspired others to fight for human dignity, helen keller: because she changed our perception of the disabled, mother teresa: because she bridged the divides of culture, class and religion, emmeline pankhurst: because she won women the right to vote