music, singing, literature, people, all things nerdy, human rights, civil rights, diversity, social justice, anything "strange", cultures and societies, beliefs, Africa (but i've never been!), choral music, history, language, grammar, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, ...everything, potentially. that's the fun of it, right?
I like people who impress me with their dazzling wit, and people who listen. I like people who are down to earth, and people who are crazy. Most of all, I like people who are all of the above. I like people who like looking at the stars; people who could lie down and die for a piece of music; who love books as their own soul.
blues, the beatles, elliott smith, neil young, grateful dead, bob dylan, the cure, depeche mode, songs: ohia, iron and wine, death cab for cutie, low, the doors, ani difranco, indigo girls, billie holiday, frank sinatra, steely dan, the decemberists, violent femmes, goldenboy, sixteen horsepower, rusted root, g. love and special sauce, jump little children, van morrison, quasi, the postal service, heatmiser, nick cave, jerry grisman, beach boys, benjamin britten, gabriel faure, ralph vaughn williams, beethoven, new order, joy division, liz phair, mojave 3, pernice brothers, allman brothers, rolling stones, tchaikovsky, david bowie, stevie ray vaughan, janis joplin, buddy holly, tom waits, leonard cohen, fleetwood mac, talking heads, the tragically hip, azure ray, okkervil river, dean martin, heatmiser, the nitty gritty dirt band, new order, robert shaw, allen toussaint, amanda shaw, jimmy buffett, cracker, broken social scene
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jaws, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, The Big Lebowski, Slapshot, Six Degrees of Separation, The Shawshank Redemption, Apocalypse Now, the Truman Show, Cabaret, The Mission, The Godfather
X Files, always. The West Wing, when it was on. and a lot of stuff i somehow never watch, like The Daily Show, Simpsons, etc.
Look Homeward, Angel; Marjorie Morningstar; The Grass Harp; The Golden Apples; American Gods; The Scarlet Letter; 1984; To The Lighthouse; The Grapes of Wrath; To Kill A Mockingbird; Go Down, Moses; You Can't Go Home Again; Paradise Lost; Moby Dick; The Things They Carried; July, July; The Stand; Hearts In Atlantis; The Lord of the Rings; The Fifth Sacred Thing; The Red Tent; The Age of Innocence; The Handmaid's Tale; Mamba's Daughters; Other Voices, Other Rooms; Night; If This Is A Man; I Will Bear Witness; There Are No Children Here; The Dark Tower; If I Die In A Combat Zone; The Lords Of Discipline; The Great Santini; Beach Music; The Water Is Wide; Go Tell It On The Mountain; My Losing Season; Skinny Legs and All; Catch-22; The Wind-up Bird Chronicles; Lucky; The Lovely Bones; I Know This Much Is True; Love in the Time of Cholera
Pat Conroy. Yitzhak Rabin. The judge from The Grass Harp. Ben Gant/Ben Wolfe. Atticus Finch. Every person who's ever stood up to a government or a 'way of life' - Frederick Leonard, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Lewis, the students who sat at the lunch counters. The kid who stood in front of the tanks in Tienanmen Square. And especially my niece, Rachel.