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my amazing friends, my famiglia, books, music, good food, good wine, lots of loud belly laughs--all this makes for one happy girl.

flaming lips, neutral milk hotel, iron&wine, wilco, sufjan stevens, smog, doves, catpower, radiohead, neal young, stevie wonder, nina simone, sarah vaughn, dylan, tom waits, velvet underground, billie, david bowie, iggy pop, leonard cohen, nick drake, jeff buckley, depeche mode, echo&the bunnymen, patti smith, bruce springsteen, willie nelson, fleetwood mac, pavement, karate, secret stars, luna, elliot smith, low, bjork, aimee mann, pj harvey, jolie holland, one a.m. radio, red house painters, sun kil moon, low, belle&sebastian, spiritualized, dirty three, massive attack, tortoise, magnetic fields, russian futurists, lhasa, serge gainsbourg, sly&the family stone, michael jackson off the wall, juana molina, the cars, talking heads, the cure, jesus and mary chain, pixies, roxy music, nick cave, will oldham--in any incarnation, pulp, blur, yo la tengo, lucinda williams, brighteyes, cursive, broken social scene, pinback, john frusciante, new order, aceyalone, tribe, de la, the roots, blackalicious, common, erykah...

breakfast at tiffany's, hard days night, edward scissorhands, welcome to the dollhouse, coal miner's daughter, dancer in the dark, breaking the waves, city of god, amelie, christmas story, coming to america, run ronnie run, home alone, i heart huckabees, eternal sunshine, sex and lucia, the apple.

arrested develoment, discovery health

the little prince, the dwarf, the violent bear it away--or any o'connor for that matter, david sedaris, sarah vowell, sandra cisneros, zora neale hurston, solzhenitsyn, chekhov, hawthorne, hemingway--especially "a clean, well lighted place", the grapes of wrath, passing, perfume, crying of lot49, great gatsby, kafka's "the trial", kavalier & clay, wonderboys, mr. vertigo, new york trilogy, goodnight moon