"unnecessary" quotation marks, absurdity, activism, atheists, barcodes, baristas, bathroom graffiti, books, bruises, catholocism, catholic saints, casiotones, christopher durang, christopher guest, coffee snobs, corky st. clair, croatia, dada, dave eggers, drag, dykes, eddie izzard, elitists, ellen degeneres, environmentalists, eugene levy, evisceration, existentialism, fags, fashion, feminists, folk, frances mcdormand, freaks, george a. romero, gender queers, girls with banjos, gore, grammar snobs, harold and maude, hedwig, hiking, hoboes, horror, intelectualism, ira glass, ishmael, janeane garofalo, joan cusack, john cameron mitchell, john waters, kids in the hall, kill rock stars, linda lovelace, luigi pirandello, maggie estep, magnolia, makeup, margaret cho's mother, nature, nerds, new orleans, non-violence, nonfiction, npr, pacifism, parker posey, peeling paint, pencils, performance art, plastic surgery nightmares, politics, prom of the living dead, protests, psychology, punk, punk boys, randomness, reading, red-white-and-blaine, religious iconography, religious tattoos, rilke, rusty metal, saint barbara, sarcasm, sardonicism, shirley q. liquor, sister spit, ska, steve fucking guttenberg, sunburns, sweaters, taxidermy, this american life, thrift stores, tim burton, tori spelling, tranny fags, transexuals, travel, trivia, utah phillips, utne reader, vegetarianism, viscera, voudou, voting, wes anderson, wilco, wit, zombies, zombie prom, z'otz
aimee mann, antony and the johnsons, ani difranco, aretha franklin, baby rosebud, beck, belle & sebastian, bitch and animal, björk, bombay the hard way, deathcab for cutie, dolly parton, elastica, el radio fantastique, goldfrapp, go!team, hedwig, hole, johnny cash, justin bond, kiki and herb, L7, laurie anderson, le tigre, leslie and the lys, less than jake, magnapop, magnetic fields, melissa ferrick, mogwai, peaches, rachel's, rasputina, scott matthews, seven year bitch, smashing pumpkins, tegan and sarah, the be good tanyas, the butchies, the clash, the eels, the muffs, the postal service, the smiths, the sex pistols, the shins, they might be giants, tom lehrer, veda hille, veruca salt, violent femmes
harold and maude
28 days later, a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, alice, a mighty wind, army of darkness, beetlejuice, benny and joon, better off dead, cabaret, chained for life, chicago, children of men, clue, connie and carla, corpse bride, dawn of the dead, day of the dead, dead alive, die mommie die, dr. strangelove, drop dead gorgeous, edward scissorhands, evil dead, evil dead 2, freaks, garden state, girl interrupted, girls will be girls, hedwig and the angry inch, house of 1000 corpses, james and the giant peach, mad love, may, mean girls, murial's wedding, night of the living dead, party monster, party monster: a shockumentary, reefer madness, reefer madness: the movie musical, rent, shaun of the dead, shortbus, sideshow, spaceballs, terror of tiny town, the best little whorehouse in texas, the house of yes, the neverending story, the nighmare before christmas, this is spinal tap, torch song trilogy, undead, valley of the dolls, vanilla sky, velvet goldmine, waiting for guffman, what dreams may come, whatever happened to baby jane?, wigstock: the movie, willy wonka and the chocolate factory
liza with a 'z'
i like books by: albert camus, alice siebold, amy hempel, amy sedaris, augusten burroughs, bret easton ellis, bruno maddox, daniel quinn, dave eggers, david sedaris, franz kafka, jincy willett, jon ronson, jonathan franzen, jonathan kozol, mark helprin, mark z. danielewski, mcsweeny's, and sarah vowell, among others.