Surviving my twenties.
Just don't be flakey. I'll love you forever.
Muse, Beck, Air, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Death Cab for Cutie, The Rapture, Blur, Radiohead, The Postal Service, The Shins, The Faint, The Von Bondies, Frou Frou, Blonde Redhead, Bright Eyes, Apples in Stereo, Pavement, the Pixies, Rufus Wainwright, Rainer Maria, Broken Social Scene, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Elliott Smith, Stina Nordenstam, Dead Prez, Le Tigre, Ani DiFranco, The Dismemberment Plan, The White Stripes, DNTEL, Aimee Mann, Rage Against the Machine, The Streets, Ladytron, Modest Mouse, Yo la Tengo, Kings of Convenience, Simian, The International Noise Conspiracy, Stellastarr, The Smiths, Sleater-Kinney, The Walkmen, The Cranberries, Badly Drawn Boy, Bjork, Denali, The Flaming Lips, Sondre Lerche, Cibo Matto, Nakatomi Plaza, Hot Hot Heat, Supergrass, the Liars, The Cure, Belle and Sebastian, Cursive, Royksopp, The Avalanches, W.I.T, Sigur Ros, Starsailor, The Arcade Fire,The Kife, Mirah, The Decemberists....
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waking Life, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Amelie, Empire Records, Donnie Darko, Newsies, The Princess Bride, Closer, I heart Huckabees, Children of Men...anything that helps me laugh a lot or think a lot. Both in one is great.
My So Called Life, Gilmore Girls, Saturdat Night Live, The Daily Show, Kids in The Hall, Colbert Report, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, AquaTeen Hunger Force, Law and Order SVU, Arrested Development! Anything ridiculous.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank, Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje, anything by Joan Didion....
I don't think I really have any specific heroes. I think that all strong women who have refused to be content with the hand they were dealt and all strong people who refuse to accept the status quo just because it is so are my heroes.