music, comics, beautiful women, aromatherapy, non-Aristotelian logic, language, teas, sarcasm, politics and public affairs, photography, wildflowers, gardens, orchids, flower arranging, quiet
Eno, Moebius, gals, cartoonists, and ... what the heck ... Drew Barrymore
eclectic. ambient, prog, obscure indie, Brit-pop, punk, some jazz. new Coldplay!, new James, Eno, Fripp, King Crimson, Robert Wyatt, Cocteau Twins, Bill Nelson, Channel Light Vessel, System 7, Orbital, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Harold Budd, Michael Brook, Miles Davis, Dusty Springfield, Joni Mitchell, Jah Wobble, XTC, Wire, Shriekback, Thelonius Monk, T Rex, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Siouxie, k.d. lang, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, FSOL, California Guitar Trio, The League of Crafty Guitarists, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Corinne Bailey Rae. Marvin Gaye, TSOP, David Bowie, John Cale, The Gourds, The Beatles, The High Llamas I.Popol Vuh, System 7, Channel Light Vessel (Bill Nelson, Roger Eno and Kate St. John,) Joni Mitchell. I could go on. I like a lot of music.
Bladerunner, any Kurosawa, Donnie Darko, Quintet, Nashville, M.A.S.H., Manhattan, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, Young Frankenstein, The Life of Brian, Blood Simple, Dark City, Sleeping Beauty, Princess Mononoke, The Whole Wide World, Brazil, Candy Stripers, Network, Broadcast News, Zelig, 1941, The Big Lebowski, Fargo
Torchwood!!!! Britcoms: Spaced, Jeeves & Wooster, Black Adder. Sex and the City (esp. near the end;) ABC soaps -- it's an addiction!;) The Prisoner; Life on Mars; Countdown with Keith Olbermann; The Daily Show; House; anything else with Steven Fry and/or Hugh Laurie; The L Word, Entourage, Extras, Scrubs, Reliable Sources, Meet the Press, Gossip Girl, Dirty Sexy Money, 30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, (the late lamented) Sports Night, Twin Peaks
comics! Inide and just-for-fun. Fun Home, any Mark Twain esp Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, any Philip K. Dick, any Try my latest read: Hero, by Perry Moore. Carl Hiassen, any Charles Willeford, any James Lee Burke, The Sandman series, any Brad Meltzer, any Anne Tyler, any Alan Moore (esp. Top Ten,) any Ray Bradbury, the Jerry Cornelius series by Michael Moorcock, any Greg Rucka, comics, comics and more comics. Lately reading more non-fiction -- current events and political satire. (I'll get over it.) Reading more LGBT-created comics.
my sisters, Brian Eno (natch,) Akira Kurosawa, Moebius (AKA Jean Giraud,) No. 6, Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd, Mark Twain, Katharine Hepburn, Annie Leibowitz, Buster Keaton, Jenette Kahn, Martin Luther King, Jr., S.I. Hayakawa, Robert Fripp, Les Paul, Anwar Sadat, Mel Brooks, Lady Bird Johnson, Edward R. Murrow, Steve Reich, Benjamin Franklin, Governor Ann Richards, Tillie Olsen, Toni Morrison, Margret Sanger, Robert Altman, Luis Bunuel, Frieda Kahlo, R. Crumb, Julius Scwartz, Lee Marrs, Dusty Springfield, Marcel Duchamp, Coco Chanel, Gertrude Stein, Jodie Foster, R. Crumb, Diablo Cody, Alexander Calder, Ellen DeGeneres, Neil Innes, David Lynch. Denis Kitchen.