art, andy warhol, lip gloss, movies, music, fashion, design, hello kitty, mix cds, vintage jewelry, ballet flats, obnoxious sunglasses, tweed, journalism, history, rubber wellies, NPR, 1950s Greenwich Village, modern and post-modern poetry, Nars blush, chocolate + raspberry, pearls, page design, feature writing, orangina, izze, typography, small town living, orchid thieves, sunsets at 8 p.m., contemporary art
everybody except strangers. strangers scare the bejesus out of me.
bright eyes, bruce springsteen, azure ray, death cab for cutie, interpol, loretta lynn, iron and wine, rilo kiley, !!!, Cat Power, The Postal Service, Kylie Minogue, The Faint, The Futureheads, The Arcade Fire, Marvin Gaye, Hall and Oates, Tilly and the Wall, Blonde Redhead, The Cure, The Eagles, Justin Timberlake, Frank Sinatra, Cursive, Feist, Of Montreal, Emiliana Torrini, Out Hud, Bloc Party, LCD Soundsystem, Mirah, Nouvelle Vague, Peggy Lee, Sufjan Stevens, Earth, Wind and Fire, Spoon, The Porch Lovers Lament
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sense and Sensibility, Rushmore, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, The Philadelphia Story, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Say Anything, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Sixteen Candles, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Junebug, Swingers, Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version)
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, What Not to Wear, Law & Order, The West Wing, Project Runway, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Entourage, Grey's Anatomy, House Hunters
Partly Cloudy Patriot, Assassination Vacation, Anne of Green Gables, Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, Henry and Clare, Me by Katharine Hepburn, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Bell Jar, The Great Gatsby, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, My Antonia, Siddhartha
Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Clare Booth Luce, Coco Chanel, Tim Harrower (the king of newspaper design), Katharine Graham, Gladys Shortt (the snake lady), e.e. cummings, Sarah Vowell, Frank O'Hara