Music, reading, writing, film, yoga, working out, bookstores, cheesecake, In-N-Out, Me-N-Ed's pizza, politics, journalism, history, driving, daydreaming, singing, learning new things, meeting new people.
MADONNA is my one and only creamy smooth pop icon goddess. I also love Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond, John Mayer, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin, Aimee Mann, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Tori Amos, The Moldy Peaches, Nick Drake, Frank Zappa, Natalie Merchant, Rod Stewart, Nina Simone, The Carpenters, Patti Smith, Eminem, Aretha Franklin, The Specials, Talking Heads, Al Green, NIN, Dusty Springfield, The Pretenders, Bob Marley, Dolly Parton, etc., etc.
EVITA (and any other Madonna movie), BATMAN, ALL of John Waters films, Quentin Tarantino films, any movie with Jack Nicholson, Darren Aronofsky films, Tim Burton films, Pan's Labyrinth, Ghost, Batman Begins, Magnolia, Moulin Rouge, Muriel's Wedding, Welcome to the Dollhouse, My Best Friend's Wedding, Private Parts, Fargo, Clueless, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Birdcage, To Wong Foo, American Beauty, Silence of the Lambs, Leaving Las Vegas, The Goonies, Little Miss Sunshine, Beautiful Thing, Mrs. Doubtfire, Wes Anderson movies, Mysterious Skin, Brokeback Mountain, The Squid and the Whale, No Country for Old Men, etc.
Real Time With Bill Maher, South Park, Six Feet Under, Weeds, One Life To Live, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Roseanne, I Love Lucy.
Some favorite authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, David Sedaris, Chuck Klosterman. Some favorite books: Madonna's Sex book and her children's books, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, American Psycho, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Memoirs Of A Geisha, The Hours, City of Night, The Awakening, Corelli's Mandolin, The Alchemist, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, 1776, etc.
My sister Sarah, my family and friends, and Hillary.