design,furniture, dance, martial arts, shoes and boots, planning the menus and making the food, good coffee, reading in bed with my pretties, bright shiny objects, orchids, succulents, bromeliads, toys, traveling near and far, tattoos, baths and bathtubs, great danes, greyhounds, yoga, being crafty, making things and seeing what other people make, big hairy retards
dancers and people who make things
nina simone, nick cave, tom waits, the black keys, the toids, blackalicious, jedi mind tricks, johnny cash, antony and the johnsons, dead prez, ella fitzgerald, billie holliday, angry samoans, omar faruk tekbilek, etta james, jolie holland, tiger army, issa bagayogo, the shirelles, john zorn, killing joke, syd barrett, patti smith, cannibal ox, aesop rock, thelonious monk, portishead, citizen fish, otis redding, massive attack, joy division, elliott smith, captain beefheart, david bowie, mahmoud fadl, the dirtbombs, miles davis, stevie wonder, bad brains, biggie, marvin gaye, old school hiphop and industrial, middle eastern and gypsy music, the sound of my dogs snoring....
nacho libre, sharkskin man and peach hip girl, the reflecting skin, seven samurai, in the mood for love, lost in translation, you me and everyone we know, kung fu hustle, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, when we were kings, sanjuro, royal tenenbaums, brazil, baraka, ghengis blues, anchorman, big trouble in little china, santa sangre, anything kurosawa, dario argento, tsui hark, wong kar wai, troma and hammer...
ghengis khan and the making of the modern world - jack weatherford. norwegian wood and wind up bird chronicle - haruki murakami, how to breathe underwater - julie orringer