Soulmates; travel; queer culture; androgyny; thrift stores; trannies; twinks; vamps; vixens; jazz clubs; piano bars; cabarets; strip clubs; burlesque queens; leather, latex, pvc and vinyl; redheads; skinny eyebrows; unselfconscious displays of affection; pansexuality; people who can make me laugh; the velvet mafia; champagne; gastronomy; seafood; drag shows; eBay; economic voodoo; goth/glam fashion; visual-kei; hair dye; wigs; fantasy and stage makeup; costuming; road trips; tequila; sushi; cultural anthropology; Tallulah Bankhead; Dorothy Parker; Alexander Woolcott; crimson and vermillion; lust; love; gender blending; rain; drunken singalongs; comedy; clever wordplay; double entendres; cunning linguists; satire; modern history; glampyres; trivia; cartoons; bishounen boys; rhinestones; kissing; highbrow romance; lowbrow humor; pagans; intellectuals; libertines; inverts; perverts; catamites; philanthropists; optimists; hedonists; sensualists and sweet, self-sufficient young TOPS with whom to share my life, my bed & my increasingly grim world view. "In post-modern terms, gender is the perfect simulacrum - the exact copy of something that never existed in the first place"
Clever cabaret crooners; witty accomplices; vamps; androgynes; anorexics; sushi chefs; bail bondsmen; libertines; catamites; t-girls; nightowls; people with extra livers; Venus as a boy.
House; Disco; Electronica; Pop (mostly Brit, Vintage and Indie); Vocal Jazz; Classic Soul; Funk; Some Hip Hop; Some Triphop; Downtempo/Chillout; New Wave; Dance; Lounge; Jive, Swing and Big Band; 80's Goth; Classic Country; Showtunes; Easy Listening; AM Gold; 70's Soft Rock.
Light Sleeper; Auntie Mame; Fingersmith; Shortbus; Bound; Amores Perros; The Cooler; The Prestige; Pan's Labyrinth; Bad Education; Maria Full of Grace; Tipping The Velvet; Ma Vie En Rose; Liquid Sky; Velvet Goldmine; The Triplets of Belleville; Exotica; Farinelli; most Jeunet films (City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Amelie, Very Long Engagement, etc.); Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; Kontroll; Spirited Away; In America; Office Space; Little Voice; Alien; Requiem For A Dream; What's Eating Gilbert Grape; Heavenly Creatures; Overboard; Lair of the White Worm; Quiet; Happiness; Kinky Boots; Not Angels But Angels; Paris Is Burning; Talented Mr. Ripley; American Beauty; Farinelli; Wonderland (1988); Rocky Horror; Bugis Street; Santa Sangre; Sirens: Mandragora; Gattaca; Girl Most Likely To; Guys and Dolls; Death Becomes Her; Dance With a Stranger; Princesa; Carrie; Y Tu Mama Tambien; Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss; The Fifth Element; Scandal; Angels and Insects; Labyrinth; Legend; Spirited Away; Aimee and Jaguar; The Fluffer; Transamerica;
I don't watch a lot of TV other than The Simpsons, to which I have an almost slavish devotion, but I do like Reno 911; Adult Swim (ATHF, Family Guy, Home Movies, Harvey Birdman, etc.); Futurama; Law and Order; Arrested Development; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and some of the pre-conspiracy X-Files
Mark Twain, Fran Lebowitz, David Sedaris, Clive Barker, Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Dave Barry, P.J. O'Rourke, Anne Rice, Douglas Adams, Tanith Lee, Elmore Leonard, Ted Heller, Marc Almond, Pat Califia, Seth Morgan, Douglas Copeland and William Gibson.
David Bowie; Marc Almond, Freddie Mercury; Trevor Horn; Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff; Mark Twain; Salvador Dali; Aubrey Beardsley; Alastair; John Austen; H.R. Giger; Frederic Leighton; William Bouguereau; Erte; Thierry Mugler; Karl Lagerfeld; Vivienne Westwood; Henry Mancini; Johnny Mercer; Burt Bacharach; Margaret Sanger; Jonas Salk; Marie Stopes; Anne Rice; Aleister Crowley; B.F. Skinner; Way Bandy; Matt Groening; Quincy Jones; Moe Gale & Charles Buchanan; Lars Carlsson. Just for fun, let's expand the "heroes" category to include pop idols and crushes too, so that I can salute the following: The early years: Pete Burns; Doctor Robert; Morten Harket; Nick Rhodes and John Taylor; David Sylvian; Terry Bozzio; Marilyn (aka Peter Robinson); The later years: Malice Mizer; Dir En Grey; Moi Dix Mois; Jude Law; Edward Furlong; Johnny Depp; Milla Jovovich; Famke Janssen; Justin Bond; Brian Eno; Micko Westmoreland; Brian Molko; Tara Emory and Lui Antinous.