I'd like to meet:
Still looking for that personal sponsor...
Music:
Magnetic Fields; Cat Stevens; Sam Cooke; Dressy Bessy; Donovan; Joan Jett; Neutral Milk Hotel; Old 97's; Prince; Pernice Brothers; Stereo Total; Jesus and Mary Chain; the Blow; Goodness; Dump; T.Rex; Elvis Costello; the Kinks; Leonard Cohen; the Chiffons; Blatz; early Stones; the Stooges; the Real Kids; Scandal; the Waitresses; Tuscadero (especially the Pink album); Paul Simon; Brian Eno; Cyndi Lauper; Jonathan Richman; the Modern Lovers; the Queers; the Zombies; early reggae; Magnapop; Bratmobile; Bikini Kill; Neil Sedaka; Social D.; the Ramones; Joni Mitchell; Etta James, etc.
Movies:
Latest favorites: Mail Order Wife ("I want buy pigs!!"), Squid and the Whale, Happy Endings, East of Eden, the Beavers IMAX movie, Decade Under the Influence, A Dirty Shame, Girlhood, Children Underground, Larry Clark stuff, David Lynch, Hard Candy, Spellbound, the Fog of War, Winged Migration. Old stand-bys: Welcome to the Dollhouse( I want to marry you Todd Solondz!), the Fabulous Stains, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Flashdance, Rosemary's Baby. And... has anyone else out there seen Gregory's Girl?
Television:
I love tv. Sigh.
Books:
any Henry Miller, Joan Didion, Richard Russo, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Camus, Hesse, Anais Nin, some Philip Roth, some John Steinbeck... Both James Frey books were awesome. And all books about crazy teenage girls. Cruddy by Lynda Barry was an especially good one. I hate books of short stories although I did love Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor and Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank (those were sorta like short stories, right?) Just finished I Am Charlotte Simmons and LOVED IT.