zines, DIY culture, interspecies friendship and/or adoption, activism, third wave feminism, stoop drinking, the postapocalypse, baby animals, grown-up animals, collage and assemblage, eastern european literature, spontaneous uprisings, shrines, appalachian snake handling cults, stop motion animation, smiling at strangers, library science, cyberpunk, road trips, etc.
folks who have bundles of small treasures tucked into empty coffee cans (no, that's not a drug reference). people who don't like their pictures taken. someone with a glass eye who will take it out and clean it in front of me. recluses of all types, but especially elderly recluses who are creating the world's greatest artwork or some sort of warp drive in their basement, so i can be the only one who knows about it. people who will not be made uncomfortable by my stuttering, my drooling, my ill-fitting clothing or my tendancy towards malapropisms.
bikini kill, the pharmacy, billie holiday, x ray spex, the slits, dead kennedys, magnetic fields, yo la tengo, pixies, the clash, sleater kinney, pinback, peaches, van morrison, the kinks, velvet underground, aesop rock, the roots, patti smith, husker du, bad brains, 13th floor elevators, salt n pepa
blade runner, wings of desire,'raiders, gremlins, the celebration, the graduate, anything that includes melon throwing or snakes aflame
meh.
vladmir nabokov, william faulkner, flannery o conner, denis johnson, d.a. levy, jeff noon, michelle tea, yevgeny zamyatin, yukio mishima, bell hooks, william gibson, kathy acker, rilke, henry miller, anais nin, carson mccullers, toni morrison, leonard cohen, franz kafka, guillaume apollinaire, e e cummings, david foster wallace, chuck palahniuk, mikhail bulgakov, patricia hill collins, etc.