"Stranger than Fiction", "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "Family Stone", "Rumor Has It", "Shaun of the Dead", "Dodgeball", "Heavyweights", "Goonies", "Gremlins", "Memento", "Unknown", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Dolores Claiborne", "My Fair Lady", "Babes in Toyland"
Carrie Underwood, Beyonce, Destiny's Child, 10, 000 Maniacs, The Fray, Snow Patrol, Josh Turner, Lauren Hill, MJ Blige, Jet, Run DMC, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Five for Fighting, Joss Stone
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Annals (Tacitus), Bellum Catilinae, In Catilinam, Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness, Catch 22, Ben Hur, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Blue like Jazz, Analyzing Syntax, Bell Jar, 100 Love Sonnets, Socrates Cafe, Speak, Feed, How Green was my Valley, Symposium (Plato), Republic (Plato), Phenomenology of the Spirit (Hegel), Lectures on Discourse (Lacan), I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Shop Girl, Pure Drivel, War and Peace, Anna Karinina, House of Seven Gables, Pickwick Papers, anything by Edgar Allan Poe, anything by O'Connor, various anthologies of short stories, poetry, essays and so forth, Shakespeare--especially his sonnets and "Othello", Critical Models, Me Talk Pretty Someday, Running With Scissors, Dry, Naked...well, that's not all of them, but that's a good running start...
hiking, reading, writing, coffee shops, poetry slams, driving, snuggling, teaching, tutoring, singing, hanging out with friends, watching movies, cooking, cleaning, learning languages