poetry, writing, art, painting/drawing, europe, laughing/crying, books, music, cooking for people, cemeteries, being nerdy, running off to the mtns, honesty, ambition, being forever unphotogenic, tea, christmas, coffee, communicational theories, (pretending that I'm good at)yoga, walking, nongross older men, being awesome, playing 20 questions, design, camping, travel, pets, chocolate, research, publishing, journals, handwritten letters, dancing, shopping, card games, boots, fashion, weather, back yards, porches, venison, woods, photography, museums, sharks, storms, magazines, scrabble, playing hostess, being a hermit, vacations, stories, full moons
Interesting people who don't make me feel bloated.Poets, writers, musicians, teachers, artists, actors and others of the creative kind.
music that moves me, has traces of both old and new. the short list:, r.e.m, radiohead, jeff buckley, pavement, sonic youth, aimee mann, television, neil young, pj harvey, silver jews, wilco, yo la tengo, joanna newsom, my morning jacket, u2, cat power, the magnetic fields, patti smith, stereolab, depeche mode, neko case, hall and oates, lucinda williams, nick cave and the bad seeds, townes vans zandt, the virginia reel, the adulterers, alejandro escovedo, steely dan, tears for fears, echo and the bunneymen, sam cooke, tom waits, billie holiday, frank sinatra, hank williams, patsy cline, elvis presley, the flaming lips, mazzy star, low, stevie wonder, leonard cohen, joni mitchell, mum, the concretes, peter bjorn and john, cocorosie, elvis costello, the white stripes, the pixies, the clash, tim buckley, bjork, the velvet underground, songs: ohia, the sea and cake, red house painters
The English Patient, Wet Hot American Summer, American Beauty, Office Space, Kill Bill, Cool Hand Luke, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, The Hours, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Earnest Saves Christmas, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Home For The Holidays, A Christmas Story, Griswold Family Christmas, Little Miss Sunshine, The Squid and The Whale, You And Me And Everyone We Know, Rear Window, Annie Hall
Six Feet Under, No Reservations, Food Network, Wonderfalls, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Moonlighting, Sex and the City, Grey's Anatomy, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Top Chef, Ally McBeal, Absolutely Fabulous, The Office, Jacques Pepin: Fast Food My Way, Simon Schama's Power of Art, Animusic!
Mark Strand, Adrienne Rich, Dean Young, Annie Dillard, Zadie Smith, Ron Rash, Linda Pastan, Michael Ondaatje, Virginia Woolfe, Joseph Conrad, Howard Zinn, David Sedaris, Cathy Smith Bowers, Rebecca McClanahan, Sharon Olds, John Berendt, Dorianne Laux, Audrey Niffenegger, Sylvia Plath, Mark Doty, Natasha Tretheway, Gary Snyder