Music:
New Order, Joy Division, Prince and the Revolution, Of Montreal, Mirah, the Microphones, 80s, Motown, 60s girl groups, The Ronettes, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, the Four Tops, the Temptations, Jackson 5, Bjork, Belle and Sebastian, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cat Power, Book of Love, Justin Timberlake, Magnetic Fields, Peaches, Girl Talk, The Rentals, Gravy Train, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Scissor Sisters, Xiu Xiu, Lady Sovereign, M.I.A., Princess Superstar
Movies:
Pedro Almodovar. John Waters. Todd Haynes. Paris is Burning. All About My Mother. Do The Right Thing. Welcome to the Dollhouse. Tarnation. Belle de jour. Pan's Labyrinth. Suicide Club. Desperate Living. Pink Flamingoes. Hairspray. Gwoemul. Memories of a Murder. Behind the Eyes of Tammy Faye.
Television:
brad neely.
Books:
Gayl Jones: Corregidora, White Rat, Eva's Man. The Poems of Hilda Doolittle. David Sedaris: Naked. Augusten Burroughs: Running With Scissors. Paul Auster: Mr. Vertigo, the New York Trilogy. Eugene Ionesco: The Chairs. Dan Savage: Savage Love. Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais and His World. Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider. Toni Morrison: Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula. William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury. Patricia Yaeger: Dirt and Desire. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson: Extraordinary Bodies. Cynthia Ozick: the Shawl.