DESIGN, art, museums, installations, bikes, traveling, books. Collecting globes, records, robots, and snowglobes. Highways, diners, avocados, unicorns, classic cars (1967 Chevy Nova), fake flowers, fake eyelashes, cartography, polaroids, mermaids, art nouveau, any one's art collection, graduate school, cooking, refinishing furniture, jazz, hip-hop, dancehall, bike bells, bridges, old movies, kung-fu movies, booksbooksbooks, hardware stores, anything tweed/herringbone/argyle, photocopies, voyeurism, antiques, and horticulture.
People who likes doing a million things at once. Designers, artists, musicians, bicyclists, do-gooders, philanthropists and super humans, and a robot. Fellow winos, people who like wearing black & brown & navy & grey all at once, and bookworms.
miss aki has wonderful friends
Christopher
Ryan
Salvation
Katie
Billy
Stephanie
Amy
Susan
Liz
KatieCrimeSpree
Jessica
Ray
Carla
Amanda
Lady Lo
Lady Nancy
Jeff
Gvicious
Sara Disaster
Juan
Tim
Jake
Mada
Lauren
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all of miss aki's friends
Jazz, electronica, downtempo, bossa nova, rockabilly, big band, dancehall and bike bells. Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash, Tosca, The Thievery Corporation, Mastodon, Gotan Project, John Legend, Black Flag, Ray Charles, Death Cab for Cutie, CSS, Bittersweet, Viktor Vaughn, From Autumn to Ashes, Dinah Washington, The Specials, Getz/Gilberto, Elvis, Bonobo, Monomena, Shivaree, Shiny Toy Guns, Showdown, San Ilya, This is Everybody Too, Styrofoam, Cursive, Soulstice, Squarepusher, Pharcyde, Doris Day, Mum, Notwist, The Brazilian Girls, The Decemberists, The Shins, The Mars Volta, Youngblood Brass Band, Prefuse 73, Bad Brains, World Inferno Friendship Society, Wax Tailor, Roots Manuva, Mos Def, RJD2, Tribe Called Quest, Jazzanova, Blue Orchid Dance Orchestra, Zero 7, Seu Jorge, The Urbs, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Alif Tree...Â
Some favorite recent movies -- The Science of Sleep, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth. All-time favorite -- My Fair Lady. Alfred Hitchcock films, Christopher Guest films, Tim Burton films, Myazaki films, George Lucas films, Wes Anderson films, Paul Thomas Anderson films, Jim Jarmusch films. King Kong (the 70's version), all the Godzilla movies. French, Spanish, and Japanese films. Pulp films, film noir, kung fu movies, anime, vampire/werewolf/zombie movies, 60's movies, superhero movies...
I get channels 3, 4, 5, 7 (kinda), 9, 11, 13 (PBS - woo hoo!).
ART and DESIGN books. Too many authors to name...
Whoever invented bridges. Mostly, Olafur Eliasson. But honestly, my heroes change atleast twice a day.