Music:
Annie Anxiety, The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Persson, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, Neko Case, The Shortwave Set, Randy Newman, The B-52s, Marcia Ball, Millie Jackson, Tom Lehrer, The Cowboy Junkies, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Smiths, Radiohead, Jo Stafford, Joni Mitchell, Meshell Ndegeocello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Astrud Gilberto, The Violent Femmes, Loudon Wainwright III, David Bowie, Marc Almond, Nanci Griffith, Grace Jones, Julie London, Nina Hagen, Diamanda Galas, Ella Fitzgerald, Morrissey, Ray Charles, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval, Brazil 66, Peggy Lee, Shirley Bassey, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Pizzicato 5, Rosemary Clooney, Eartha Kitt, Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies, whatever's on the radio right now.
Movies:
I Wake Up Screaming; Double Indemnity; Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure; The Lady from Shanghai; Murder, My Sweet; Kiss Me Deadly; Pillow Talk; The Damned Don't Cry; Sudden Fear; Scarlet Street; Auntie Mame
Books:
The Encyclopedia of Amazons, Women warriors from antiquity to the modern era. Jessica Amanda Salmonson. 1991
Heroes:
Gráinne Ni Mháille; Bess Myerson; Ma Barker; Bonnie Parker; Betty White; Patty Hearst; Lucretia Borgia; Martha Stewart; Isobel Jane Millar Richard, The Duchess of Northumberland; Rosetta Lenoire; Sophia Loren; Zsa Zsa Gabor