I like good friends, Thomas, vodka, Chicago, music, theatre, books, San Francisco, muscle cars, cruisers, the opera, parliaments, Mexico, poetry, road trips, rock shows, short fiction, the beach, lounges, the philharmonic, good food, New York, art, make-up, martinis, race cars, liberal media, punk rock, San Diego, night time, sun, writing, wine, taxidermy, brunch, working out, travelling, driving fast, and surprising people.
Men with futures, women with pasts.
Radiohead, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Blonde Redhead, Portishead, The Killers, Electric 6, Cat Power, Kings of Leon, The Vandals, The Faint, Ladytron, Rock Kills Kid, Nouvelle Vague, the Pixies, Sublime, Muse, Interpol, The White Stripes, Ella Fitzgerald, DeVotchka, Spoon, The Cure, The Reverend Horton Heat, Depeche Mode, Rancid, Goldfrapp, Air, Bloc Party... In essence, a little of everything that doesn't suck.
Classics like Breakfast at Tiffany's, How to Marry a Millionaire, Love Story and newer ones too, like Silence of the Lambs, The Squid and the Whale, The Royal Tennenbaums, I Heart Huckabee's, Quentin Tarantino films (Pulp Fiction being one of my favorites ever), David Lynch (Mulholland Drive and any Twin Peaks), Big Fish (really anything by Tim Burton), The Fifth Element, Pride and Prejudice, scary movies that are only good once, Shakespeare remakes, art flicks and anything with a great story.
No thank you.
I love books by these people:
The virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman... and the best diarist I have ever experienced-
My inspiration in life and word-
Pauline Melville, author of "Ventriloquist's Tale"
Anais Nin
Ernest Hemingway
Kevyn AuCoin
Pat McGrath
Pablo Picasso
T.L. Williams, inventor of mascara.