music, records, sheet music, making mix CDs/tapes, DJing, playing oboe, guitar, and keys, best friends, making martinis, making out, dancing, garage sales, rollerskates, photography, photo albums, old movies, James Dean, Nancy Sinatra, reading, writing, arithmetic, used bookstores, museums, vintage furniture, antiquing, fashion/sewing, embroidery, SHOES!, shopping, hair styles, beauty products, decorating my apartment, exploring Chicago, traveling, Vienna, German language, Europe (when can I move back?), public radio (NPR), band flyers, making lists, the 1960s, equality/feminism
People that will introduce me to new things.
People that like to shop.
People that will make me good mix tapes/CDs.
People that want to explore Chicago.
The 5678s, AC/DC, Air, Aretha Franklin, B-52s, Babes in Toyland, THE BEATLES, Belle and Sebastian, Berlin, Bikini Kill, Billie Holiday, Bis, Blonde Redhead, The Breeders, Buzzcocks, The Byrds, Johnny Cash, Neko Case, Casual Dots, The Chiffons, Cibo Matto, The Clash, Patsy Cline, Clinic, CocoRosie, Cold Cold Hearts, Comet Gain, Elvis Costello, Cream, Betty Davis, The Decemberists, Deep Lust, Deerhoof, Devo, The Dirtbombs, Bob Dylan, Einsturzende Neubauten, Elastica, Electrelane, Electric Prunes, Elliott Smith, Essential Logic, Excuse 17, Free Kitten, Frumpies, Fugazi, Gossip, Headcoatees, Heavens to Betsy, Herbie Hancock, Hangovers, PJ Harvey, Buddy Holly, Huggy Bear, Iron+Wine, Tony Jackson Group, The Jam, Joan Jett, Joy Division, The Kinks, L7, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, LOVE, Mika Miko, Modey Lemon, The Monks, The Move, Nazz, New Order, Joanna Newsome, Nico, Of Montreal, Pink Grease, Pixies, Portishead, THE PRETTY THINGS, Pussy Galore, Suzi Quatro, Queen, The Ramones, Rilo Kiley, The Rolling Stones, Sahara Hotnights, Nina Samone, The Seeds, Seven Year Bitch, Shangri-Las, Shonen Knife, Nancy Sinatra, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Sleater-Kinney, Small Faces, The Smiths, Spoon, The Standells, Stereo Total, Stone Roses, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Talking Heads, Them, Timebox, Trans Am, Velvet Underground, Von Bondies, The Who, Hank Williams, X-Ray Spex, XTC, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Zombies…Dvorak, Smetana, Handel, Berloiz, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, George Gershwin, Benny Goodman. (Only to name a few, there's so many more.)
Metropolis, M, Fritz Lang films, The Saddest Music in the World, East of Eden, Casablanca, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Some Girl, Amelie, Heathers, Natural Born Killers, Run Lola Run, Iron Jawed Angels...all Christopher Guest, a couple Wes Anderson films, Reality Bites, Sunset Boulevard, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Barefoot in the Park, Dazed and Confused, Alfred Hitchcock films, pre-1970s B Sci-Fi movies (like Forbidden Planet and Them!), biographical movies about musicians (George Gershwin, Buddy Holly, Benny Goodman...)
I watch these on DVD: Strangers with Candy, Arrested Development, The Office, Six Feet Under. Cable's addictive: What Not to Wear, Project Runway, Futurama, Turner Classic Movies Channel, Style network. I love these: House, DH, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Ugly Betty, The Simpsons, ANTM, Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy reruns. My favorite show is Sex and the City.
Authors: Michael Chabon, Kurt Vonnegut, Murakami, John Irving, Goethe, Steinbeck, The Brontes, Orwell, C.S. Lewis, David Sedaris. I am always reading, usually books my friends recommend.
Magazines: Vogue, Bust, Venus, Mojo, Ready Made, Domino
(people I admire) Lee Miller (photojournalist), Alice Paul (women's rights activist), Doris Day. My inspiration is my mother.