guitars, cadillacs, hillbilly music, Mimi's goat cheese croquettes, ice cream/gelato/frozen custard, museums, smiling faces, roller coasters, meteor showers, fireflies, bourbon and lots of it, camping, coffee, mix tapes, Erte, Mucha, tap dancing, stained glass, Judaism, car talk, Thai food, burlesque shows, the superhero supply store, the beach, snow, cheap red wine, dark chocolate, snogging, New York, drinking moonshine and chasing chickens ... but not necessarily in that order.
gypsies, tramps. no thieves please.
60's garage rock, 70's power pop, harmonies, handclaps, Elephant 6 stuff, Phil Spector girl group yumminess, Cajun and Zydeco, Exploding Hearts, Television, Ella Fitzgerald, Red Stick Ramblers, Pine Leaf Boys, Slobot (I miss Louisiana music!), Elvis Costello, Belle & Sebastian, Otis Redding, Magnetic Fields, Cat Power, Billy Bragg, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Holly Golightly, Black Lips, Ernie KDoe, Jonathan Richman, Nick Drake, Dusty Springfield, the Rosebuds, Love, Pulp, Guided by Voices, LL Cool J (um- so that's not really about the music... is it hot in here?)
Dig!, Big Fish, The Birds, Annie Hall, Almost Famous, Amelie, Rushmore, Cinema Paradiso, Imitation of Life, Monterey Pop, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, documentaries, zombie movies
VERONICA MARS!!!(R.I.P.), twilight zone, Buffy (dammit), Simpsons, Colbert Report, Daily Show, Mr. Show, 30 Rock, the Office (BBC), the Frat Aliens episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force
David Sedaris stuff, Middlesex, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Please Kill Me, Skipping Towards Gomorrah, High Fidelity, Love in the Time of Cholera, Does Playboy count as a book?
Stanislav Petrov. Alan Lomax. Amy Goodman. MICHELE ARMS!