Born and raised in a suburb, and thus the target of endless mockery from those more urban than myself. I swear up and down that the most bitchin' people come from the suburbs, but no one believes me, and I suppose that using the adjective 'bitchin' right there really did not help my case...*ahem*...

Being with friends and family, writing (mostly poetry), all music (yeah, i'm kind of a music whore...I listen to everything), esp. Fall Out Boy, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, blueberry banana bubble teas (go get one immediately), playing with my dogs, living off Peanut Butter Captain Crunch, Running around in the rain/snow and inevitably catching a cold, dancing weirdly in the backs of cars to freak people in other cars out, generally making a fool of myself in public...

Oy - here we go: FALL OUT BOY, 504 Plan, 3 Doors Down, 50 Cent, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Al Green, Alanis Morrisette, America, Aqualung, Aretha Franklin, Ash, Avril Lavigne, the Backstreet Boys, Badly Drawn Boy, Barenaked Ladies, Barry Manilow, BBMak, the Beach Boys, the Beastie Boys, the Beatles, the Bee Gees, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, Billy Joel, the Black Eyed Peas, Blessed Union of Souls, Blind Melon, Blink 182, Bloc Party, Blue Oyster Cult, Blueline Medic, the Blues Brothers, Blues Traveller, Bobby Darin, Bon Jovi, Bowling For Soup, Box Car Racer, Boyz II Men, Brad Paisley, the Bravery, Bread, Brian McKnight, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Bryan Adams, Buddy Holly, Cake, the Carpenters, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, Cheap Trick, Cherry Monroe, Chicago, Christopher Cross, the Clash, the Click Five, Coheed and Cambria, Coldplay, Cole Porter, Collective Soul, the Counting Crows, the Cure, Dan Fogelberg, the Dandy Warhols, Dashboard Confessional, Dean Martin, Death Cab For Cutie, Destiny's Child, Dexter Freebish, Diana Krall, Dido, the Dixie Chicks, the Dog and Everything, the Doobie Brothers, the Doors, Duncan Sheik, Duran Duran, Eagle Eye Cherry, the Eagles, Elefant, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliot Smith, ELO, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Evanescence, Eve 6, Everclear, Feel, Five For Fighting, the Foo Fighters, Foreigner, Fountains of Wayne, Frank Sinatra, the Fray, Garbage, Garth Brooks, Gavin DeGraw, Gin Blossoms, Glenn Campbell, Glenn Miller, the Goo Goo Dolls, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Guns N Roses, Gwen Stefani, Hall and Oates, Hanson, Herman's Hermits, Hole, Home Grown, Hoobastank, Hootie and the Blowfish, Howie Day, Ingram Hill, Iron and Wine, Jack Johnson, Jack Jones, the Jackson Five, James Taylor, Jamie Cullum, Jamison Parker, Jane's Addiction, Jason Mraz, the Jayhawks, Jem, Jesse McCartney, JET, Jewel, Jim Croce, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, John Cougar Mellencamp, John Mayer, John Pizzarelli, Joseph Arthur, Josh Kelley, Joss Stone, Justin Timberlake, Kara's Flowers, Keane, Keith Urban, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney, the Killers, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, Lifehouse, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Lit, Liz Phair, Lonestar, Lucky Boys Confusion, Lucy Woodward, Ludacris, Lynrd Skynrd, Madness, Mae, Marc Broussard, Mariah Carey, Maroon 5, Marvin Gaye, Matchbox Twenty, the Matches, Matt Nathanson, Matthew Sweet, Mazzy Star, Mest, Michael Buble, Michael Feinstein, Michael Jackson, Michelle Branch, the Monkees, Motion City Soundtrack, Motley Crue, My Chemical Romance, Nada Surf, Nat King Cole, New Kids on the Block, the New Pornographers, Nickelback, Nirvana, No Doubt, Norah Jones, Oasis, the Offspring, OK Go, the Osmonds, Our Lady Peace, Outkast, Panic! at the Disco, Paramore, Pat Benetar, Pat McGee Band, Paul Simon, the Perishers, Peter Frampton, Phantom Planet, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Plain White T's, the Police, Prince, the Proclaimers, Puddle of Mudd, Punchline, Queen, Queen Latifah, R.E.M., Rachael Yamagata, Radiohead, Rascal Flatts, the Rasmus, Ray Charles, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Red Hot Valentines, Relient K, Rob Thomas, Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart, the Rolling Stones, Rooney, Rosemary Clooney, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams, Ryan Cabrera, Santana, Sarah McLaughlan, Savage Garden, Seal, the Sex Pistols, Sherwood, Sheryl Crow, the Shins, Smash Mouth, the Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Something Corporate, Spin Doctors, Steely Dan, Stereophonics, Steve Miller Band, Stevie Wonder, the Stills, Sting, Sublime, Sugar Ray, Sugarcult, the Supremes, Switchfoot, the Temptations, Third Eye Blind, the Thrills, TLC, Todd Rundgren, Tonic, Train, the Turtles, Tyler Hilton, U2, Usher, Vertical Horizon, the Walkmen, Weezer, Wheat, Whitney Houston, the Who, Will Smith, Yellowcard, Zwan...

GHOSBUSTERS, HAUNTED HONEYMOON, The Amityville Horror, She Devil, Ghostbusters 2, Abbott and Costello Hold That Ghost, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back to the Future, Zoolander, Troy, Ocean's 11, Ocean's 12, Can't Hardly Wait, the Blues Brothers, Billy Madison, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Empire Records, Annie Hall, Grease, My Favorite Wife, Bringing Up Baby, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Moulin Rouge, Clueless, Clue, The Sure Thing, Dead Poets Society, Ever After, Never Been Kissed, Bridget Jones's Diary, Sixteen Candles, Alex and Emma, Down With Love, Tootsie, Spiderman, Beauty and the Beast, Murder in Greenwich, Salem's Lot, Bedazzled, Cruel Intentions, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Napoleon Dynamite, Groundhog Day, Mean Girls, The Haunting (old version), Reality Bites, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Big Fish, any 80's movie, all Bad 70's horror movies...

Family Guy, The Simpsons, American Dad, Night Court, Desperate Housewives, The OC (yeah, I said it), Medium, I Love Lucy, Living Single, Mystery Science Theater!!!

The Great Gatsby, The Love of the Last Tycoon, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night, Welcome to the Monkey House, Slaughterhouse Five, Second Glance, Interpreter of Maladies, Amityville Horror, The Country of the Young, The Aeneid, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, Jane Eyre, Lovely Bones, Big Fish, Fight Club, The Lake of Dead Languages, The Life of John Adams, The Stepford Wives, Zelda, Collected Works of: Frank O'Hara, Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickinson, Percy Shelley, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath...