daydreaming, fashion, shoes, working in my studio, oh I hate to admit it but celebrity gossip (I love to hate you Perez Hilton), reading, watching movies, my best friends, the great conversations with my friends, the 50s and the 60s, and I don't know where I would be without 70s kitsch, vintage beauty products and packaging (hairdryers especially, curlers, curling irons, makeup compacts, and eyelash curlers), machines, taking apart machines, making ne machines, aluminum, copper, brass, and steel, plastic oh wonderful plastic, lathes, sporks, tools, torches, fashion magazines, vintage clothing, hair, infomercials, men who wear great shoes, As Seen On TV products, John Doe, thai food, sushi, Quorn Chikn (trust me), vintage jewelry, Arrested Development, The Office, anything John Waters, Lloyd Kaufman, and James Gunn, chopsticks, singing in my car and in my studio, karaoke (Everybody's A Star!!)geeks, nerds, tattoos, air guitar, my nintendo 64 (Best Mario Ever), comedy, my god-dogs, crossword puzzles, 90s Trivial Pursuit, peanut butter, NetFlix, www.cracked.com, ambition, passion, wonder, obsession, the New York Times, the Village Voice, addictinggames.com, most things camp
John Waters' compilations, Bowie, Queen, Cindy Lauper, Gillian Welch, Zepellin, The Ramones, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, the Band, Howlin wolf, Screeching Weasel, Elvis Costello, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Pasty Cline, Beatles, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Loretta Lynn, John Prine, Leonard Cohen, various motown, soul, blues and bluegrass artists, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, Bonnie Tyler (really who doesn't secretly love Totally Eclpise of the Heart?), Poison Snake (who is my favorite band!!!), Blondie, Concrete Blonde, Violent Femmes, B.B. King, R.E.M., Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, The Pixies, The White Stripes, Portishead, Simon & Garfunkle, Moxy Fruvous, The Kinks, Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Weezer, Sex Pistols, The Doors, the Beach Boys, Ray Charles, Nous Non Plus, the Clash, the Cramps, Otis Redding, The Psychedelic Furs, and I'm developing a great appreciatio for swedish rock
28 Days Later, Air Guitar Nation, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, All About My Mother, American Movie, Annie Hall, Army of Darkness, Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, Best in Show, Better off Dead, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Bottle Rocket, The Breakfast Club, Bubba Ho-Tep, Buffalo 66, But I'm a Cheerleader, The Burbs, Cannibal the Musical, The Dark Crystal, Dawn of the Dead (both), Death Proof, Desperate Living, The Devils Rejects, A Dirty Shame, Donnie Darko, Election, Eraserhead, The Evil Dead, Fargo, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Female Trouble, Flashdance, Frida, Galaxy Quest, Ghostbusters, The Goonies, Gummo, Hairspray (1988), The House of Yes, Howard the Duck, The Jerk, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, King of Kong, The Labrynth, The Last Unicorn, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lollilove, Lost Highway, Magnolia, Mars Attacks, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Muppet Movie, Night on Earth, Napolean Dynamite, No Country for Old Men, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Pretty in Pink, The Princess Bride, Pink Flamingos, Pump up the Volume, Real Genius, Resevoir Dogs, Rock n Roll High School, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rosemarys Baby, The Royal Tennebaums, Say Anything, The Science of Sleep, Sg. Kabukiman NYPD, Slither, The Slums of Beverly Hills, Spaceballs, Talk To Her, Terror Firmer, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, The Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, Volver, Waynes World, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wet Hot American Summer, Weird Science, Wild at Heart, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), What Have I Done To Deserve This, Wordplay, The Yes Men
I don't really watch much television, but TV on DVD is pretty rad every now and then. If I could be any one character on my favorite show it would be...
Arrested Development
The Office
The Simpsons
Freaks and Geeks
Twin Peaks
Strangers With Candy
Cracked: The Obsessions of John Waters, The Toy Collector, Wonderland Avenue, An Underground Education, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed, Art: A Sex Book, Diary, Skinny Legs and All, Desperate Visions, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, The Winter of Our Discontent, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, If Chins Could Kill, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, Make Your Own Damn Movie: Secrets of a Renegade Director, All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned From the Toxic Avenger, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste, Fight Club, Diary of an Emotional Idioit, The Zombie Survival Guide, The Catcher in the Rye, East of Eden, Brave New World, Holidays on Ice, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Basketball Diaries, A Wrinkle in Time, Exit to Eden, The Bell Jar, Valley of the Dolls, Alice in Wonderland, To Air Is To Human, Sexus, Nexus, Plexus, Henry and June, The Complete Metalsmith
John Waters, Lloyd Kaufman, Bob Dylan, my mom, Frida Kahlo, Dwight Schrute, Danny and Jessie, Johannes Guttenberg, Leonardo Da Vinci, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Tom Waits, James Gunn, the entire Bluth famliy, Jeff Koons, Napolean Dynamite, Josiah McKelheney, Ira Sherman, Andy Warhol, Svenja John, Mi-Mi Moscow, Fritz Maierhofer, anyone who follows their dreams