dance parties, my best friends, Jacques Cousteau, the barter system, Fresca, hot dentists, Washington DC, Goofus and Gallant, prose poetry, being an English major, my professors, lip gloss, date dump or marry?, emotional commercials, mobsters, jargonized words such as complexify and ghettoize, Roanoke, race gender class theory, olive oil, the blue ridge mountains, Appalachia
Humpty Dumpty
People who like pop culture .
Misogynists! Pretentious grad students! Professors trying desperately to get tenure! Adolescents who sharpen their fingernails to points! People who "challenge" gender roles by reinforcing the divide! Activists who talk down to the audience at lectures (HI, KAREN FINLEY! HI!). And finally, hyper-positive people who can't complete sentences without referring to their own inner light!
the Breeders, Tanya Donelly, Nelly Furtado, Juliana Hatfield, Kristin Hersh, Nathan, Sleater-Kinney, Tilly and the Wall, Throwing Muses, Veruca Salt, and sometimes boys write good songs too
Goodfellas, Harold and Maude, Coffee and Cigarettes, Romy and Michele's Highschool Reunion, Wedding Crashers, the Slums of Beverly Hills, In the Heat of the Night, Le Notti di Cabiria, Me and You and Everyone We Know, anything Hitchcock, I Walked with a Zombie
Queer as Folk, Good Eats, Project Runway, Iron Chef, The Sopranos, Arrested Development, anything that has ever featured Kevin Corrigan
Catch-22, 100 Years of Solitude, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, any Calvin and Hobbes treasury, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, White Teeth
Brian Kinney, Parker Posey, my lady dentist and my hot dentist, Giulietta Masina, Winson Hudson, Ruth Gordon, Kristin Hersh, Louise Post, Jacques Cousteau, my professors, Nelly Furtado, bell hooks, Kara Walker