writing, making art, spirituality, To Write Love On Her Arms, organic things, avant-garde music and movies, body mods, fashion/hair/makeup, constantly changing for the better, text-messaging, blatant honesty, making jewelry and clothes, baking, every side to a story, optimism, giving and receiving smiles, thrift stores, friends who build me up, music/fashion magazines, things that are pink and black, obscure music and movies, Andy Warhol, hero worship, winter, the Lakers, existentialism, Judd Apatow movies, making lists, laughing, knowing there's something more, hope, life.

Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Alkaline Trio, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, Panic at the Disco, Amanda Overmyer, Charlotte Sometimes, Forever the Sickest Kids, Katy Perry, P!nk, Joshua Radin, The White Tie Affair, Metro Station, The Ting Tings, Scarlett Johannson, Good Charlotte, Christina Aguilera, A Fine Frenzy, Daughtry, Avril Lavigne, Kate Nash, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor, Cobra Starship, David Cook, Carrie Underwood, Ashlee Simpson, AFI, The Ramones, No Doubt, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Audition.

Juno, Garden State, Charlie Bartlett, Knocked Up, Superbad, Requiem For a Dream, Anchorman, The Simpsons Movie, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Moulin Rouge, American Pie, American Pie 2, American Wedding, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Zoolander, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (both), Party Monster, Trading Places, Never Been Kissed, Dazed and Confused, A League of Their Own, Miss Congeniality, The House Bunny.

Scrubs, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Seinfeld, TMZ, Dancing With the Stars, South Park.

Purpose For the Pain, Harry Potter, Drugs Are Nice, Go Ask Alice, Cut, Crank, The Rough Guide to Rock, A Night Without Armor: Poems by Jewel, Requiem For a Dream, A Promise of Change, The Secret Life of Dagmar Shultz.