art, red wine, whiskey, crossword puzzles, sexy dorks with big noses, passion and heartache, drunken dancing with the girls, pad thai, indian food, red things, road trips, party dresses, the desert, overthinking, bicycles, buying self help books but not reading them, good food, making out like teenagers, rubberband balls, the food pyramid, reading everyday, batting cages, mexican religious artifacts, lucid dreaming, lip gloss, watermelon, superstitions, anatomy, sour patch kids, portugal, the sound of the train, thunderstorms, the smell of gasoline, rock paper scissors, flip-flops, tulips, liquid courage, self destruction, hotel rooms, thriftstore jewelry, fireworks, boots, minor chords
Willie Nelson, Cindy Sherman, Bob Barker, Joel-Peter Witkin, Larry Sultan, anyone who can make me laugh until I think I'm gonna piss my pants
Nina Simone, Willie Nelson, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Ike & Tina Turner, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Black Star, Carly Simon, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, X-Ray Spex, The Gits, Songs:Ohia, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Edith Piaf, Astrud Gilberto, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Love & Rockets, Small Faces, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The New Pornographers, Whiskeytown, Julie London, Johnny Mathis, James Brown and the Famous Flames, Richard and Linda Thompson, Alejandro Escovedo, Billie Holliday, Prince, David Bowie, Gang of Four, The Buzzcocks, Otis Redding, Uncle Tupelo, Maxine Brown, My Bloody Valentine, LaVern Baker, The Smiths, The Cure, The Delfonics, The Doves, Midlake, Nada Surf
The Jerk, Waiting for Guffman, Happy Gilmore, Once Were Warriors, Lifeboat, Near Dark, Airplane, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Young Frankenstein, Touch of Evil, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Blues Brothers, Night of the Iguana, The Princess Bride, Raising Arizona, Cool Hand Luke, Better Off Dead, They Live,
Tortilla Flats-John Steinbeck, Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole, The Plague-Albert Camus, Candide-Voltaire, Talking Pictures-Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric, The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf-Edward Albee, The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho, One Hundred and One Dalmations-Dodie Smith, Where the Wild Things Are-Maurice Sendack, To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee, The Power of Myth-Joseph Campbell, The Sex Lives of Cannibals,Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific- J. Maarten Troost, Flow my Tears the Policaman Said-Philip K. Dick, Bless Me Ultima-Rudolfo Anaya, Magic for Beginners-Kelly Link
My Grandfather, my Mother, Julia Childs, anti-heroes everywhere