vegan cooking, especially southern-style vegan treats; activism; books: reading them, collecting them, buying them for friends; zines--making and creating; blogging; teaching; literary and feminist and queer theory--reading and writing it; coffee; bikram yoga; crossword puzzles; going to new places; cats; graveyards; riding bikes; drinking wine on my velvet couch w/ my cutie friends; quiet goth boys who sit at the bar and wait to get noticed; practicing piano and playing w/ friends; cleaning products; talking to my mom on the phone; google searches; used book stores (they smell so nice); buzz cuts; making flyers; oregon hill history; back and forth:)
gertrude stein (i have a few questions).
gravenhurst, joy division, mates of state, the decemberist, spokane, talib kweli, jant, the cure, the sort!!, rocket from the crypt, i love you but i've chosen darkness, overnight, shiloh, echo and the bunnymen, ursula 1000, more fire for burning people, i am the emperor, jawbreaker, cristal is music to my ears and music to make sweet love to, the evens, tkapb, a silver mount zion, galaxy 500, mogwai, stereolab, the roots, boards of canada, gang of four, palace bros., trans am, stereo total, the minutemen, mike ill, low, sonic youth, fela, fugazi, sebadoh, sly and the family stone, breadwinner--yeah!, slint, nas, the wedding present, broadcast, elastica, rob k., the knife, the wipers, antibalas, the rentals, the clash, ladytron, interpol, tricky, drunk, devo, tom waits, west, nebulagirl, my bloody valentine, modern lovers, sigur ros, mos def, black mountain, vic chesnutt, dirty three, rick james....
bad education: actually most almodovar films rock, i owe many favorites to the kind tutelage of rick alverson (five easy pieces, the indian runner, etc.), the idiots, what the bleep do we know, chisolm 72, watermelon woman, wes anderson films, apocalypse now, ))<>((, i really loved hustle and flow too, so kill me if you're a hater, but we all know the truth..., that grizzly man got eaten but the ..ary was fascinating (does w.h. make a bad film?),the agronomist, the squid and the whale, the last king of scotland got to me recently
shows w/ dead bodies and makeover shows. dog the bounty hunter is dead to me. the odd irony of liking cop shows.
gertrude stein, michel foucault, audre lorde, bell hooks, kenzaburo oe, kate bornstein, dorothy allison , gretchen comba, jhumpa lahiri, emma goldman, noam chomsky, virginia woolf, jay snodgrass (never read a better godzilla poem in my life), adrienne rich, inga musico, leslie feinberg (a hero), krishnamurti, any expose book about how effed up the bush administration is (there are lots of them that are amazing and sad too), robyn weigman, toni morrison, joan didion, emily dickinson, terry hummer, cornell west, john kinsella, gloria anzaldua, colleen curran,jack gilbert, e.a. poe, "the lazy crossdresser" by charles anders, cynthia enloe, rebecca brown, gunter grass, "that's revolting!" anthology, "without a net" edited by michelle tea, edward gorey and ogdred weary...to be continued
All the (mostly nameless) people who have sacrificed (often their lives) for the ongoing struggle for social justice.