A woman. Or a man. It doesn't really matter.
Tilly and the Wall, Whispertown2000, Weezer, Okkervil River, Rilo Kiley, Justin Nozuka, The Faint, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Sia, Michael Buble, Damien Rice, Josh Groban, Patsy Cline, Jenny Lewis, Azure Ray, Fiona Apple, Arcade Fire, TEGAN AND SARA (rawr)
Pride and Prejudice, Nothing But Trouble, Igby Goes Down, American History X, Drive Me Crazy, An Inconveinant Truth, Love Actually, The Hours, Dead Poets Society, Normal, Cruel Intentions, V For Vendetta, The Virgin Suicides, American Beauty, But... I'm A Cheerleader, Kill Bill (1&2), Pulp Fiction, Stepmom, Party Monster, When Harry Met Sally, Why We Fight, Born Into Brothels, Bowling for Columbine, Annie Hall, Sixth Sense, The Shining, Les Choristes, Donnie Darko
the l word and def poetry
anything by Milan Kundera/ Virginia Woolfe
My grandmother Soa Gumbert, Poets who write for a living, social workers, My mother, Teachers...the ones who inspired me at least