Writing, politics, non-binary genders, teaching, literacy, dogs, ethics, poetry, comedy, tragedy, books, movies, music, art, emotions, analyzing everything...
Old souls, non-bullshiters, anti-Bushites, introverts, extroverts in touch with their inner introvert, sensitive heretics, gender-deviants, queers, fat activists, funny cynics, smart people, nice people, good people...
Belle and Sebastian, the Magenetic Fields, Modest Mouse, Elliott Smith, Tori Amos, Beth Orton, PJ Harvey, Momus, Le Tigre, kd lang, Olivia Tremor Control, Blondie, Simon and Garfunkel, Cibo Matto, Ella Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell, , Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, Radiohead, Blur, the Strokes, Bob Dylan, Macy Gray, the Dresden Dolls, R.E.M., Wilco, Franz Ferdinand, Badly Drawn Boy, Death Cab for Cutie, the Be Good Tanyas, Kris Delmhorst, Missy Elliott, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Sufjan Stevens, the Gossip, Tom Waits. Obscure, random, sick, political, and/or pretty things. I like a little of everything, except maybe most current pop with trite and irritating lyrics/sounds.
Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill, Good Night and Good Luck, Capote, all the Muppet Movies, Six Degrees of Separation, Amelie, Antonia's Line, Bowling for Columbine, Dead Poets Society. Very big fan of many foreign and independent films.
HUFF, Big Love, Weeds, the Daily Show, Six Feet Under, Law and Order, Animal Planet.
James Baldwin, Just Above My Head; Alice Walker, The Color Purple; Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies; David Sedaris, Naked; Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast; J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, Read My Lips, Riki Anne Wilchins; The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy.