Trees, dance moves, scars, dirt tanlines, bruises, toughguys, perfection, physics, gardening, shovelling, playing dress-up, being tied up, fun tricks with rope, expensive leather things, safer sex, face slapping, face-spitting, eye make-up, being queer, wrestling my mom, wrestling on school lawns, wrestling in my p/manties for money, wrestling in my p/manties for love, throwing tantrums, playing with power, playing with fire (same thing).
Intentional livers. People to whom drinking is not a way of life. Ira Glass. Your mother... width="425" height="350" ..
oh, you know, just about everything... a few: The Postal Service, The Gossip, They Might Be Giants, Patty Griffin, Pink Martini, Asylum Street Spankers, Beastie Boys, Jethro Tull, Ladytron, Prince, Queen, Peaches, Tracy and the Plastics, Led Zeppelin, Junior Senior, The Magnetic Fields, Ella Fitzgerald, Rufus Wainwright, The Cure, Cake, Le Tigre, Bitch, X/The Knitters, Etta James, Ferron, Cris Williamson (yeah, i'm a lez, so what?), Nomi Lamm, Paris Combo... I can't keep going. you get it.
Harold and Maude, Drop Dead Fred, Donnie Darko, Spirited Away, Lemony Snicket's... Dark Days, Jesus Camp, The Big Lebowski, What dreams May Come, Hackers, Secondhand Lions. good porn. bad dreams.
I don't have a television and don't plan to any time soon. 6 feet under is the best ever. Will travel for the L word. But I refuse to watch tv with commercials.
Dumbing us Down, The Dark Tower series, Godspeed, A People's History of the United States, Life After God, Without a Net, anything from Ivan E. Coyote, David Sedaris, or Dorothy Allison, Edwidge Danticat, Audre Lorde, Tom Spanbauer... I have a sizeable collection of christian tracts. Want me to read one to you?
All my heroes are little people. But there are LOTS of them. My mom is still my favorite.