carrier pigeons, multiples of 3 and all instances of the number 9, pineapple, reading and attempting to write good sentences, bookbinding, artists' books, relearning piano, mango and sticky rice, only children, duende, surrogate family, the container store as an OCD trigger, Laundry Hat!, cheliciosity, coconut ice cream, the orgasm continuum, DIY education, the many flavors of bdsm, music, madrid, hands, iceland, and charting human behavioral patterns on Styrofoam take-out containers:
I'd like to meet:
"Like porn, we're not sure how to define it, but we’ll know it when we see it."
Music:
anything that moves me to choreograph interpretive dance, including but not limited to:
jesus and mary chain, t. rex, slowdive, love and rockets, the prids, kristeen young, hungry march band, squeeze, glenn branca, magnetic fields, the kinks, the arcade fire, brainiac, the theme song from the blob, t. griffin coraline, the quavers, sonic youth, queen adreena, celia cruz, led zeppelin, zombies, my bloody valentine, belle & sebastian, mum, mott the hoople, blonde redhead, broken social scene, siouxsie, morrissey, daisy chainsaw, depeche mode, devotchka, devo, portishead, ruby, jane's addiction, muse, stooges, john frusciante, jeff buckley, bowie, tom waits, pinback, the vanishing, velvet teen, velvet underground, vue, new order, nick drake, katie jane garside, johnny cash, cocteau twins, gang of four, french kicks, elliot smith, godspeed you black emperor, dresden dolls, the walkmen, joy division, jonathan fire*eater, brmc, fleetwood mac, al green, radiohead, roy orbison, marvin gaye, patti smith, patsy cline, billie holiday, nina simone, pj harvey, edith piaf, james brown, jacques brel, natacha atlas, IWS, oxygentwentytwo, chopin, prokofiev, paganini. and the list goes on...
Movies:
Myra Breckinridge, Young Frankenstein, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Drugstore Cowboy, Secretary, Lair of the White Worm, The Warriors, City of Lost Children, City of God, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice (or anything Tim Burton), Cabaret, Heavenly Creatures, Cry Baby (or anything John Waters), Witness for the Prosecution, Daisies, Hairspray, Heathers, Mulholland Dr. (or anything David Lynch), Young Poisoner's Handbook, Perfect Blue ('97), Abre los Ojos...and zombies; if it's got a zombie in it, I'm sold.
Television:
arrested development, twin peaks, firefly...and law & order
Books:
e. e. cummings, Amy Hempel, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Donald Bartheleme, Claudia Rankine, Gina Zucker, Gary Lutz, Maggie Nelson, Sarah Manguso, Tom Spanbauer, Raymond Carver, Richard Bach, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, JD Salinger, Jen Bervin, David Sedaris, Franz Kafka, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Kurt Vonnegut, Georges Bataille, Nathanael West, JT Leroy, Gertrude Stein, Anton Chekhov, and the collaborative, poetic works of Joshua Beckman & Matthew Rohrer.
Heroes:
Kim Gordon, Polly Jean Harvey, Katie Jane Garside...and Patsy Stone for setting the record straight: "It's not porn, it's just cheeky fun."
