coffee, cigarettes, never getting around to throwing things out, reading too much, dispensing sage wisdom, Mr. Catface, schadenfreude, icarianism, egg cream sodas, trying to figure out what that whole rapture thing is about, 3am Walgreens excursions, tiramisu, when Jen slaps total strangers, dramatic readings of the X-matches and jesus pamphlets, skee-ball, sex-positive feminism, kvetching
I'd like to meet:
JoJo the Dogfaced boy, Lydia the Tattooed Lady. Anyone who makes me seem marginally less neurotic. Those who can air their grievances in a manner that I find entertaining.
Were I to have a dinner party, to which I could invite any person living or dead, I would definitely not invite Herman Melville, as I suspect he would go on about whale blubber all evening, causing my guests to lose their appetites or simply be bored to death- I mean, can you just imagine?
Music:
tom waits, otis redding, aretha franklin, the velvet underground, carole king, benny goodman, peggy lee, astrud gilberto, leadbelly, beach boys, bikini kill, tribe 8, jeff buckley, sam cooke, blossom dearie, the kinks, the b-52's, nina simone, odetta, ma rainey, patsy cline, ida cox, ella fitzgerald, the marvelettes, dean martin, billie holiday, renata tebaldi, the chiffons, cat stevens, the paper dolls, booker t and the mg's, bessie smith, the shangri-la's, the velvelettes, the cookies, marvin gaye, ethel merman, the ventures, david bowie, frank sinatra, big mama thornton, carly simon, etta james, dinah washington, the ramones, randy newman, the gits, sleater kinney, apples in stereo, josef k, louis prima and keely smith, pulp, the raspberries, the ronettes, the misfits, ruth etting, smokey robinson, stevie wonder, the softies, al green
Movies:
annie hall, whatever happened to baby jane, all about eve, faster pussycat kill kill!, highschool hellcats, bringing up baby, evil dead, take the money and run, dog day afternoon, breakfast at tiffanys, casablanca, sleeper, the outsiders, the purple rose of cairo, harold and maude, pandoras box, crybaby, pink flamingos, the commitments, cabaret, manhattan, bananas, the big sleep, lost in translation, paris- when it sizzles, of human bondage, the maltese falcon, hush hush sweet charlottel, jezebel, gone with the wind, splendor in the grass, on the waterfront, a streetcar named desire, the manchurian candidate, top hat, pretty in pink, say anything, charade, funny face, sabrina, some like it hot, roman holiday, to have and to have not, mildred pierce, mantrap, die! die! my darling!, dial m for murder, freaks, the devil doll, spinal tap, who's afraid of virginia woolf?, cat on a hot tin roof, sunset boulevard, jane eyre, the jerk, the man who came to dinner, gilda, pal joey, double indemnity, the lady eve, algiers, ziegfeld girl, rear window, to catch a thief, high society, anna karenina, the divorcee, her cardboard lover, the female of the species, sex and the single girl, duck soup, the letter, mr. skeffington, dangerous, dead men don't wear plaid, coquette, it happened one night, now voyager, butterfield 8, the desparate hours, the wild one .... oh my gosh, to actually complete this would take so so long
Television:
Law and order and anything on Turner Classic Movies. And "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson."
Books:
Dostoevsky, Dorothy Parker, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Jean Genet, John Kennedy Toole, Baudelaire, D.H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, Gerard de Nerval, Marcel Proust, Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, Tennyson, Antonin Artaud, Phillip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer, Douglas Coupland, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Jean Cocteau, Zora Neale Hurston, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Voltaire, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Louis Aragon, John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Haruki Marukami, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Pushkin, Vonnegut, Guy de Maupassant, Tom Robbins, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, W. Somerset, Maugham, Zadie Smith, Chuck Pahluniuk, Arthur Rimbaud, Edna Ferber, Oscar Wilde, Magaret Atwood, Sarah Vowell, Howard Zinn, Don Delillo, Kafka, Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Kathy Acker, F. Scott Fitzgerald... and a lot of others including a vast array of biographies and autobiographies of dead old hollywood movie stars.
Heroes:
Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker, Fran Leibowitz, Voltaire and Oscar Wilde. Ideally I'd like to be famous for saying clever things every now and again at cocktail parties. Clearly, I need to make friends with someone who works for the New Yorker.
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