pickles, belly dance, Tamil dance, dance, cultures, interior design, Frida Kahlo, cycling, singing, sinning, art, ceramics, painting, music, Artemsia Gentileschi, anthropology, reading, monkeys, Kandinksky, Klimt, vintage collectibles, nature, snakes, snake oil salesmen, laab, weird people, toe jam, gay rights, science, roller skating, humanitarian issues, Mona Hatoum, Rosa Bonhuer, Faith Ringold, Kathe Kollwitz, Hilla Rebay, architecture, Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Haywood-Wakefield, smelling things, tasting things, theology, philosophy, asparagus and how it makes my pee smell, Judy Chicago, p-funk, punk rock, pinocchio, Meret Oppenheim, Heinlein, Hawthorn, hedonists, hexes, sexes, perplexes, porpoise, whiskey, wine, rum and coke, panang gai, dark chocolate, sparkly things, babies, Buddha, beauty, Burroughs, bananas...
Folks with information on boiled egg sandwich hook-ups, leap-frog tournaments and fart jokes.
Peggy Lee, Portishead, Parliament, Judas Priest, Black Flag, Kate Bush, The Velvet Underground, Carl Orff, Mario Bauza, Natacha Atlas, AC/DC, Pixies, The Sluggos, Getz and Gilberto, Bob Marley, Lata Mangeschkar, The Fugees, The Reverand Horton Heat, Veruca Salt, Sly and the Family Stone, DJ Cheb, The Breeders, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, The Huddlers, Billie Holiday, Jane's Addiction, Suicidal Tendancies, Thelonius Monk, NOFX, DJ Punjabi, Stevie Wonder, Bongwater, Laurie Anderson, Jamiroquai, Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, Beastie Boys, Ween, Soraya, Sublime, Ohio Players, Transglobal Underground, Steel Pole Bathtub, Sir Mix-a-lot, Fear, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Patsy Cline, Steely Dan, Galactic Caravan, Beethoven, Agnostic Front, Isaac Hayes, The Slits, Donna Summer, Amr Diab, Bootsy Collins, Missy Elliot, The Cramps, Misfits, Bright Young Hopefuls, Boss Martians, Hank Williams SENIOR, Bob Wills, Split Lip Rayfield, Cypress Hill, Riverboat Gamblers, Erykah Badu, Afro-Cuban All-Stars, ELO, Tchaikovsky, Lou Reed, The Clash, Nancy Sinatra, and so, so much more.
Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Happiness, Welcome to the dollhouse(or my pubescent years), Harold and Maude, Crash, boogie Nights, A clockwork Orange, On the Waterfront, The Pink Panther films, Raising Arizona, Breaking the Waves, Pulp Fiction, A Christmas Story, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, 2001: A Space Odyssey, It's a Wonderful Life, Zoolander, Blue Velvet, Henry and June, Dr. Strangelove, Pink Floyd the Wall(duh), Bollywood films, The Sound of Music, Being John Malcovich, The Nightmare Before xmas, Edward Scissorhands, Bladerunner, West Side Story, Sex, Lies and videotape, Apocalypse Now, Kill Bills, Magnolia, Citizen Kane, Vertigo and a bunch of others I'm sure I've missed.
I only watch Law and Order re-runs and movies. I do like the Colbert Report, a lot. I think the Law and Order obsession is passing. I might turn it on but I don't watch it. Maybe the little clink-clunks are just soothing. Okay, sometimes I watch CSI Las Vegas. I hate CSI Miami.
I used to read the Wichita City paper. I do not anymore.
My parents and my grandparents. Also the bionic woman.