ferrydust

19 August 2007 Sunday

These are a few of my favorite things

I really don’t like picking favorite things.

Nonetheless, these are a few of my favorite things (not in any order)…

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TV Shows

I’ve appreciated, whether they’re great/good shows or not:
Boy Meets World, Joan of Arcadia, X-Men (1990s Saturday morning animated series), Mad About You, Battlestar Galactica, Kyle XY, The 4400, West Wing, Firefly, Rome, Golden Girls, Star Trek (especially TNG), Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Brothers and Sisters, Arrested Development, Boston Legal, Girlswi Club, The Practice, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, House, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, South Park, Family Guy, Nip Tuck, Reaper, Pushing Daisies, Death Note, Fringe, 30 Rock, the Office, Will and Grace, Project Runway, Heroes, Arrested Development, Prison Break, Deadwood, How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Two and a Half Men, Fringe, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Community, Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, The Vampire Diaries, 2011: The IT Crowd, The Voice, Misfits, Happy Endings, Friends With Benefits, Switched at Birth, Alphas, Outsourced, Free Agents, Perfect Couples, Spy, Grimm

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Music

some that I’ll always keep in my collection and a few that are just simply good extras to have:

Patty Larkin, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Something Corporate, John Denver, Joe Hisaishi, George Winston, Akeboshi, Mika, Nine Days, Peter Mulvey, Snow Patrol, Jimmy Eat World, The Decemberists, Janet Jackson, Wayne, Amy Grant, Staind, Whitest Boy Alive, Greenwheel, The Weepies, Matchbox Twenty, Deb Talan, Aidan Hawken, Matt Nathanson, Josh Ritter, Death Cab for Cutie,pop Modest Mouse, Badly Drawn Boy, Outkast, Madonna, Linkin Park, Eminem, TLC, Salt N Pepa, Regina Spektor, Kings of Convenience, The Killers, Willy Mason, Doobie Brothers, Aimee Mann, Charlotte Martin, Collective Soul, Pearl Jam, Joseph Arthur, Mat Kearney, Tom Paxton, Matt Wertz, Over the Rhine, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business, Abandoned Pools, Acceptance, Actual Tigers, Alexi Murdoch, Alix Olson, Anberlin, Arthur Yoria, Ashton Allen, Barenaked Ladies, Ben Kweller, Blessid Union of Souls, The Boy Bathing, Coldplay, Collective Soul, Dashboard Confessional, Eastmountainsouth, Edwin McCain, Finn Brothers, Five For Fighting, Foo Fighters, The Fray, Garbage, Guster, Hush Sound, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Jamie Cullum, Joe Purdy, Josh Rouse, Le Chevre, Llama, Vertical Horizon, Mike Doughty, Judy Collins, Minus the Bear, Vienna Teng, Mountain Goats, Notwist, Panic! at the Disco, Postal Service, Ryan Adams, Sara Bareilles, Schuyler Fisk, Sia, Sophie Zelmani, Jaci Velasquez, Southland, Massive Attack, Spill Canvas, Straylight Run, Lifehouse, Tantric, Tegan and Sara, Terra Naomi, KT Tunstall, Tinderbox, TV on the Radio, Weakerthans, Jukebox the Ghost, Noah and the Whale, Pearl & the Beard

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Books

Mists of Avalon, The Hobbit, Bridge to Terabithia, Maniac Magee, Stranger in a Strange Land, Wrinkle in Time series, Tom Sawyer series, Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Memnoch, Shogun, Good Omens, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Sandman graphic novel series, The Watchmen, Tao of Pooh, Nancy Drew Series, SVH series, Lorax, Places You’ll Go, Aesop’s Fables, Richard Scary stuff, Mother Goose stuff, Peter Rabbit stuff, Enders Game series, Ender’s Shadow series, Enchantment, Velveteen Rabbit, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Misty of Chincoteague series, Malayan Trilogy, Namesake, To Kill a Mockingbird, Calvin & Hobbes, A Song of Fire and Ice series, Counting Heads (series)

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Comics

Calvin & Hobbes, xkcd, Ctrl+Alt+Del, PBF

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Movies

Meet Joe Black, Thomas Crown Affair, Love Actually, Air Force One, 火垂るの墓“ (Hotaru No Haka / Grave of the Fireflies), Good Will Hunting, Indiana Jones series, Star Wars series, Memento, Fifth Element, Sixth Sense, Cruel Intentions, Usual Suspects, Crash, Devil’s Advocate, Casablanca, Departed, The Replacements, Wedding Crashers, What Dreams May Come, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, Kung Fu Panda, A League of Their Own, Knocked Up, Elf, Slumdog Millionaire, Up in the Air, Kung Fu Hustle, August Rush, Fast & Furious (series), He’s Just Not That Into You, Kung Fu Panda 2

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Theater/etc.

Man of La Mancha, South Pacific, The Last Five Years, Next to Normal, West Side Story, Oklahoma Next to Normal, The Tempest

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Radio Shows

NPR is goodness. Favorite shows: RadioLab, This American Life

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Food

chicken & stars soup, mushrooms, rotisserie chicken, fried chicken, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, raspberries, berries, clementines, grapes, fruits, dragonfruit, mangosteen, (duku)langsat, ice cream, chocolate mousse, dark chocolate, lasagna, spaghetti, fish balls, meatballs, rice soup, porridge, pizza, ramen, crabs, wan tan mee/kwan loh mee, polish sausage, buffalo wings, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, crunchy tacos, chocolate chip cookies

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Colors

  blues ,  silver ,  black ,  lavender / lilac / ferrydust ,  greens ,  crimson/magentas

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Above all else

family
good people
intentions, good intentions
ideas, shared ideas
timshel, will
love
trust

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Other (again in no order whatsoever)

chocolate chip cookies, punch buggies, smoothies, the chairs scene in knocked up, 13, computers, orchids, silver/platinum, water, piano, guitar, moons, weather, sunroofs, rain, sun, snow, autumn, dragons, open-source, dreams, labradorite, opals, bluey, with pulp, fruit on the bottom, non-carbonated, window seat, kites, journals, adaptability, evolution, pockets