Music, rocking out with my fantabulous band, being a new Jeerleader for the Gotham Girls Roller Derby League, getting nostalgic about ALBATROSS, my formerly amazing rock parties in Harlem, reading unfashionablly old literature, reading embarassingly trashy mystery novels, people watching, cats!!!, animals, PETA, dressing up, collecting antiques, renovating my albatross of a brownstone, writing songs, staring at myself, traveling, misspelling words, envying Europeans, plotting get-rich-at-a-moderate-rate schemes
I'd like to meet:
Billionaires feeling burdened by their money.
Rakes, cads and scamps.
Ladies of ill repute.
Oscar Wilde
Music:
NYC LES indie rock, the Harlem Shakes, The Dashing Wildes, Royal Pink, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Spacehog, Ladytron, The So So Glos, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Basement Jaxx, Junior Sanchez, Miss Kitten, Inouk, Arckid, Belle & Sebastian, Elliott Smith, Camera, Mesmer, Rooney, Daft Punk, Air, The Total Drop, Mew, David Bowie, Ezra Reich, Elefant, Unisex Salon, Phoenix, Franz Ferdinand, Baby Dayliner, Zero 7, Thievery Corperation, Via Violenta, The WoWz, Valeze, Doctors & Dealers, Namalee n the namazonz, Eloise, The British Expeditionary Force, Bodyrox with Luciana, Metric, Peter Bjorn and John, I Love You Airlines, MattRabbit, The Sister Lovers, Group Sounds, We Are Scientists, The Libertines, Kudu, most any classical music or opera, but especially Dvorak, Faure and Vivaldi
Movies:
Valmont, Party Girl (my inspiration for being), Earth, Fire, Bollywood/Hollywood, Zoolander, Amelie, The Royal Tennenbaums, Spinal Tap, Run Lola Run, He Loves Me-He Loves Me Not, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Dancer in the Dark, Wilde, most costume dramas, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Chung King Express, Edward Scissorhands, The City of Lost Children, Delicatessan, Moll Flanders (by Masterpiece Theater) which (tied with Valmont) is about the sexiest movie ever, Amadeus, pretty much any Jackie Chan movie especially Shanghi Noon & Shanghi Nights, Straight from the Heart, Austin Powers I, Half Baked, Whatever Happened Baby Jane, action movies from the 90s, depressing foreign films
Television:
Nip/Tuck (the Zeus of TV dramas), Absolutely Fabulous, Dr. 90210 (only the first season...boob jobs jet pretty boring), anything on the National Geographic Channel, History Channel and Nova. These shows are fond memories now, because I only get about two stations, and I'd rather read a book than watch the Parkers.
Books:
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, anything by Judith Krantz, Candide, Pride and Prejudice, Crime and Punishment, Vanity Fair, The Little Princess, The Phantom Tollbooth, Grimm's Fairy Tales, any fairy tales, esp. in anthologies by Jack Zipes, Down and Out in Paris and London, 1984, The Grapes of Wrath, Arabian Nights, Fanny Hill (porn's got nothin' on it...man, those 18th century Brits!), Moll Flanders, Middlesex, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, How to be a Complete Dandy, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Between the Bridge and the River, The Jungle
Heroes:
David Bowie, Oscar Wilde, Royston Langdon..hmmm...I do look up to a lot of bisexual British/Irish boys...Dandies one and all, rockers, dancers, people who give, people who don't give a fuck