Just a lil' taster:
Books: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The History of Love, Pilgrim at
Tinker Creek, The Catcher in the Rye, The Glass Castle, A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The
Princess Bride, Just Kids, The House on Mango Street, I know why
the caged bird sings; anything by Steinbeck, Hemingway, Fitzgerald,
Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio rocks!), Frank McCourt, Cormac
McCarthy, Toni Morisson, Fyodor Dostoyesky, Paul Theroux, Annie
Dillard, Natalie Goldberg and almost any book on writing as long as
it's written well.
Movies: Garden State (also a good soundtrack), Black Swan (cool
soundtrack), The House of Sand and Fog, Being There, Fast Times at
Ridgemont High, Forrest Gump (fantastic travel soundtrack), The
Fifth Element, Lost in Translation, Love Actually (great
soundtrack!), In America, American Beauty, As Good As It Gets, City
of God, Being John Malkovich, Almost Famous (best soundtrack
ever!), Vicki Christina Barcelona (nice soundtrack), Girl
Interrupted, Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, The Notebook,
Midnight in Paris, most any movie about sports especially if it's a
true story, & almost anything with Frances McDormand, Kate
Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin
Spacey or Edward Norton. Tons. More. I. Love. Movies.
Music: Radiohead, Pink Floyd, daft punk, Simon and Garfunkel,
Crosby, Stills & Nash, Fleetwood Mac (wish I saw 'em live),
James Taylor, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Cat Stevens, The
Eagles, Portishead, The Cardigans, The Roots (favorite live act!),
Outkast, Nas, Thievery Corporation (best live!), Emily Wells,
K'naan, Dezarie, A Tribe Called Quest, Third World, Digable
Planets, The Pharcyde, Philadelphia Slick, Massive Attack, Immortal
Technique, Muse, Balkan Beat Box, Beat Antique, Umphrey's Mcgee, De
La Soul, The Black Keys, Tegan and Sara, Fanna-fi-Allah, Slick
Rick, Talib Kweli, Adele, Emeli Sande, Alison Krauss (& Union
Station), Melody Gardot (Must. See. Live!), The Beatles (Imagine!),
Annie Lennox, The XX (seein 'em soon), Erykah Badu, Kings of Leon,
Brandi Carlile (on my list to see live), Sade, Tori Amos, Bjork,
Dave Matthews Band, classical music, all classic rock, folk music
and much, much more... I heart live music and live for music
festivals!
Shows: The Flight of the Concords, No Reservations, Monty Phython,
Golden Girls, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,
So You Think You Can Dance
Food: EVERYTHING!! (Seriously, there is pretty much nothing that I
won't eat :)
