• "I could kill ya sure, but I could only make you cry with these words..." - Belle & Sebastian's "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying"
• "I lie across the path waiting just for a chance to be a spiderweb trapped in your lashes, and for that I would trade you my empire for ashes, but I choke it back; how much I need love." - Neko Case's "Middle Cyclone"
• "I'm an owl on the sill in the evening but morning finds you still warm and breathing..." - Neko Case's "This Tornado Loves You"

• Hellogoodbye
  • Optimistic love-pop at its finest!
• Hole
  • Courtney Love's name really carries the band, but I can't help but enjoy the really enjoyably, awful rock that comes from them. The guitars sound crunchy and the entire band just abuses their instruments in such a delightfully ugly way that I'm hooked from the second I hear the opening to "Miss World." Courtney Love may be kind of a train wreck on the downhill slope, but some part of me will always be that 13 year old girl who totally looked up to her.
• ABBA
  • The entire reason that I watched "Muriel's Wedding" in the first place.

For Good Reasons:

• Betsey Johnson
• Neko Case
• Tom Waits
• Zooey Deschanel
• Leo Kottke
  • _Dear Mr. Kottke, If you could teach me how to finger-pick the guitar the way you do, that would be awesome. Thanks. Sincerely, Me.
• Robert Pattinson

I'm drawing a blank on anyone else I'd like to meet at the moment. I'll add to it when I think of them.

• The Princess Bride
• The Big Lebowski
• Raising Arizona
• O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Edward Scissorhands
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• Aladdin (Disney's version)
• The Lion King (Disney's version)
• The Hangover
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• My Best Friend's Wedding
• A League Of Their Own
• Harry Potter (Any of them. I'm such a sci-fi/fantasy nerd.)
• Lord Of The Rings (the entire trilogy...still haven't seen The Hobbit, though.)
• Office Space
• Fargo
• The Sandlot
• Pirates Of The Carribean (The trilogy...I'm such a trilogy/saga nerd!)

Starting from the time I was born:

• Ronald Reagan is sworn into office as the 40th US President, 1981
• The first artificial heart is implanted in American Barney Clark, 1982
• The Soviets shoot down Korean Airlines flight 007, 1983
• The Soviet Union boycotts the Los Angeles Summer Olympics, 1984
• Live Aid, a 17-hour rock concert broadcast worldwide from London and Philadelphia, raises $70 million for the starving peoples of Africa, 1985
  • I vaguely remember this, but only because of the song "We Are The World." That song is by far one of the best large-scale musical collaborations in history, in my opinion.
• Japanese video game maker Nintendo introduces its games to America, 1986

• Sex On The Beach
• Vodka Cran
• Surfer On Acid
• Mojito
• "Caucasian" (or for you non-Lebowski lovers/people not in the know of the GREATNESS of The Big Lebowski, a White Russian)
• Mudslide
• Dirty martini
• Washington Apple (A martini drink that is absolutely delightful.)
• Tom Collins
• Red-headed Slut
• Vegas Bomb (Crown, Malibu and Peach Schnapps dropped or poured into cranberry and energy)
• F*ck Yer Mom (My own delightful creation...Bailey's, Amaretto and Raspberry Vodka...what's a good drink without a filthy name?)
• Irish Car Bomb (I don't know if I could e...

These songs mean a lot to me simply because they say something that I can relate to. To me, they are a sort of summary for the things that define who I am and that are important to me.

• "Que Sera Sera" by Doris Day
• "Heal" by Catherine Wheel
• "Middle Cyclone" by Neko Case -
• "Time Is On My Side" by The Rolling Stones
• "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel
• "Crazy As Me" by Alison Krauss & Union Station
• "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers
• "Down In The Valley" by The Head And The Heart
• "Baby, I" by Amy Millan
• "Shadowboxer" by Fiona Apple
• "Doll Parts" by Hole

• "The Princess Bride"
• "Labyrinth"
• "Goonies"
• "The Breakfast Club"
• "Say Anything"
• "Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi"
• "Ewok Adventure"
• "The Never Ending Story"
• "The Dark Crystal"

This could get long, too. I'll add to it as I think of more.

• Ken Follett
• Augusten Burroughs
• Mark Helprin
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• The Hangover
• The Big Lebowski
• O Brother Where Art Thou
• Raising Arizona
• Burn After Reading
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• Super Troopers
• The Princess Bride
• Fargo
  • If you don't laugh while watching Fargo, you aren't paying attention to anything but the gore. I had to watch this movie a few times before I noticed the humor.
• The Women

Pretty much any of the movies that are on my favorites list make me laugh, but this list could get really long, really quickly.

I suppose it's never too late to make this list, although I should've made it about 10 or 15 years ago. These aren't in order, either. I just typed them out as I thought of them.

• Set Design
  • I don't care what kind of set it is...TV, movies, stage...I just like tinkering and building and making things pretty. One big part of my current job is visual merchandising, and while I have other responsibilities, that's the part I like doing the most (sometimes I focus on the merchandising a little too much.) I'm also a little bit of a perfectionist.
• Fashion Design
  • I love fashion. I'd probably have to learn how to sew or come up with the money to pay someone who already knows how.

• "Running With Scissors" by Augusten Burroghs
• "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
• "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• "Memoirs Of A Geisha" by Arthur Golden
• "The Second Assistant" by Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare
• "Original Cyn" by Sue Margolis
• "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
• "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer
• "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer
• "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer
• "World Without End" by Ken Follett
• "Magical Thinking" by Augusten Burroughs
• "Candles Burning" by Tabitha King and Michael McDowell
• "The Hazards of Sleeping Alone" by Elise Juska
• "Freddy And Fredericka" by Mark Helprin
• "Generation of Swine" by Hunter S. Thomps...

• "In My Life" by The Beatles
• "My Immortal" by Evanescence
• "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence
• "Que Sera Sera" by Doris Day
• "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
• "Killin' Me Softly" by theFugees

• New Moon - take a drink every time you see a shirtless native, every time Bella sighs or scoffs, every time Edward appears to Bella as a figment of her imagination and/or every time Edward looks like he's smelled a fart. (Be careful with this one...you'll be drunk before the halfway point if you aren't. Choose one thing to focus on if you're trying to take the drinking slowly.)
• Office Space - Drink when you hear the word "flair."
• Rocky Horror Picture Show - Whenever someone yells "Asshole!" (for Brad) or "Slut!" (for Janet) take a drink.
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Take a drink whenever you hear a drug or alcohol reference or every time you see a character's hallucination.
• Strange Brew - Drink every time they say "Eh."