art, reading, movies, music, drinking coffee, candy, shoes, shopping, people watching, SLEEPING, skirts that twirl, drinking cheap champagne on Friday and bourban the rest of the week, and eating lots of dark chocolate
Nikki S. Lee, Gerhard Richter, John Currin, Cecily Brown, Polly Apfelbaum, Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh, Shahzia Sikander, Kara Walker, Lisa Yuskavage, Mark Wallinger, Paul Pfeiffer, Bill Henson, Sam Taylor Wood, Ghada Amer, Richard Ross, and Monica Bonvicini
Irma Thomas, jazz (Gordon, Davis, Parker, Vaughn, C.Brown, Burrell, Dizzy, Cannonball, D. Reinhardt), classical(Beethoven, Bach, Vaughn), opera, the cds Alexis makes for me, bad pop, punk, country (old, like Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline) Magnetic Fields, Mos Def, any member of the rat pack and I'm an oldies fanatic. As cliche as it sounds, I love a little bit of evertything and I love when I learn about something new (even if it just new to me).
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Godfather 1 and 2, Elf, Pieces of April, High Fidelity, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Possession, The Hours, Truly Madly Deeply, the Kieslowski Colors trilogy, Paris Blues, Woody Allen movies, Sweet Hereafter, Young Frankenstein, Napolean Dynamite, Married to the Mob, Stealing Beauty, Anchorman, 40 Year Old Virgin, Belle de jour, Obscure Object of Desire, Amelie, Basquiat, Wonder Boys, Goodfellas, Mafia movies in general, Being There, Fight Club, old cheesey over-the-top-big-budget movie musicals, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Bell Book and Candle, The Apartment, basically anything with Cary Grant, Audrey or Katherine Hepburn, or Hitchcock, and of course, Love Story.
FREAKS AND GEEKS, Nick at Night (I know the theme songs to too many old tv shows!), Golden Girls, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Gilmore Girls, and a new obsession with The L-Word
Jane Austen, any of the Bronte sisters, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, EM Forster, Nabokov, Foucault, Barthes, Graham Greene, Dostoyevsky, Jerzy Kosinski, Milan Kundera, Sylvia Plath, William Styron, Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Isabel Allende, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Allison, John Steinbeck, Julian Barnes, Jennifer Lash, Anchee Min, Italo Calvino, Walt Whitman, Jorge Luis Borges
My amazing Mom, my brother J.P., Danielle, my Aunt Dinah, who taught me everything I ever needed to know about being a bitch, and of course, Jamie Daniels, for all of the obvious reasons