Whiskey and French cigarettes,
a motorbike with high-speed jets,
a Waterpik, a Cuisinart
and a hypo-allergenic dog.
I want all the luxuries of the modern age,
and every item on every page
in the Lillian Vernon catalogue.
Hedwig & The Angry Inch
I'd like to meet:
"Time, places, people... They're all speeding up. So to cope with this evolutionary paranoia, strange people are chosen, who through their art can move progress more quickly."
Those people. Boys that wear glasses and fat girls that dance and would like to shop for makeup with me. Debbie Harry, James Spader, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Betsey Johnson.
Music:
I really do like a little bit of everything old and new. The more vinyl the better. The Clash, The Ramones, Madonna, David Bowie, Jim Caroll, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Bloc Party, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, A Tribe Called Quest, Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, Pavement, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Desmond Jimmy and Toots, Flogging Molly, The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Sham 69, The Magnetic Fields, The Decemberists, Spoon, My Morning Jacket, X, Leonard Cohen, Pat Benatar, Ike and Tina, Joan Jett, The Slits, Tom Waits, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Conway Twitty, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, The Killers, Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinney, Radiohead, Patriot, The Misfits, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Broken Social Scene, Belle and Sebastian, Peaches, Louis XIV, Of Montreal, Public Enemy, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Missy Elliot, Cocksparrer, Sonic Youth, Motorhead, Social Distortion,
but above all.... BLONDIE.
Movies:
I Heart Huckabees, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, Requiem for a Dream, Hairspray, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert, Shopgirl, The Big Lebowski, Two Hundred Cigarettes, High Fidelity, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, About a Boy. I like all the Brat Pack movies but the 80's can stay right where they are.
Television:
Only the really trashy stuff. Right now I am all about Entourage and Big Love. I just started watching Psych. The Isaac Mizrahi Show, Wife Swap, Trading Spouses, Super Nanny, Project Runway, Being Bobby Brown, Growing Up Gotti, Flavor of Love, Martin, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, Cow and Chicken, Sex and the City, Absolutely Fabulous, Best Week Ever and then any countdown or snippet show on VH1 or E!
Books:
I like Tom Robbins and David Sedaris.
Heroes:
Tim Gunn and Don Vito. Patti Smith. I do not know. Oh, the guys from this commercial:
