- French films, especially Amélie & La Femme Nikita
- This House of Sky, Ivan Doig
- ”Brown Eyed Girl” * Van MorrisonW
- English Premier League Football, Arsenal (see Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby)
- Best in Show
- Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke or pretty much any poem he ever wrote
- ”The Sweetest Thing” & ”Running to Stand Still” U2
- i thank you God for most this amazing day… E. E. CummingsW
- Romeo + Juliet ( Shakespeare, Zefferelli & Baz Luhrman)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
*follow the link to hear Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” on youtube!
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