food (vegan, spicy), animals, animal shelters/rescue, Tree House Animal Foundation, cats, cooking, live music, Halloween, back rubs, gargoyles, karaoke, the arts in general, conversation, travel, thrift and consignment stores, wasting too much time on my computer, Cirque du Soleil, CSA (Angelic Organics), recycling, parentheses (aren't they just so useful?), vegan Earth Shoes, my LAUNCHcast radio station (http://music.yahoo.com/lc/?rt=0&rp1=0&rp2=124274025 5) and Y!Music Unlimited account (I'm mildy obsessed with rating songs, or if you ask Chris, it's OCD), Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 (yes, I am now "into" a comic book. Damn that Joss Whedon and my enabler of a boyfriend!)
Tori Amos, Anggun, Jann Arden, Fiona Apple, Barenaked Ladies, John Barry, The Beatles, Bel Canto, Sarah Bettens, Bjork, Sarah Borges, David Bowie, Jonatha Brooke, Jeff Buckley, Eliza Carthy, Kelly Clarkson, Phil Collins, Cowboy Junkies, Crowded House, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Ani DiFranco, Duran Duran, Everything But the Girl, Jason Falkner, Neil Finn, Finn Brothers, Ben Folds, The Frames, The Fray, Frou Frou, Garbage, George, Goldfrapp, Patty Griffin, Josh Groban, Halou, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Ed Harcourt, Sarah Harmer, Gemma Hayes, Imogen Heap, Jellyfish, Jimmy Eat World, Billy Joel, K's Choice, Katie Todd Band, Kosheen, Lamb, Jonny Lang, Live, Luscious Jackson, Mandalay, Matchbox 20, Maria McKee, Sarah McLachlan, Rhett Miller, Morley, Alanis Morisette, New Order, Old 97's, Olive, Over the Rhine, Portishead, Prince (prior to 1990), Radiohead, Bic Runga, Donna Summer, The Timeout Drawer, Beth Waters, Weekend Players, Weezer, etc., lots of cheesy 80's stuff, a little country, classical, musicals
The Usual Suspects, Memento, Shaun of the Dead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Once, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Donnie Darko, Dark City, Edward Scissorhands, any Monty Python, Star Wars trilogy, Kissing Jessica Stein, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sixteen Candles, Blade Runner, Grease, The Incredibles
Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Smallville, Heroes, American Idol, and (thanks to Chris) Stargate SG1 and Atlantis; sometimes Sex and the City reruns, The Simpsons, Coupling, Mythbusters, and my Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs; used to love: Star Trek TNG, Angel, Firefly, Whose Line, Picket Fences, Northern Exposure, X Files, Cheers, Battle of the Planets, Starblazers, Ally McBeal, The Practice, Remington Steele, Pinky and the Brain, Ren and Stimpy
The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins); Ragtime; The Godfather; The Phantom Tollbooth; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Jane Eyre; The Bell Jar; The Time Traveler's Wife; anything by Madeleine L'Engle, Jane Austen, Alice Walker, Sigrid Undset, Cynthia Voight, Ursula K. LeGuin, Maya Angelou, William Shakespeare, Edward Gorey; poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Emily Dickinson
Jane Goodall; People who dedicate their lives to helping animals, environmental causes, and/or other humans...; Madeleine L'Engle; Jonatha Brooke; Joss Whedon