Kurt Vonnegut (R.I.P.), Sanrio, David Sedaris, Hello Kitty, Minna No Tabo, CHARTREUSE anything, toys, vegetarianism, book collecting, ebay, anything vintage 50's & 60's, mid century modern EVERYTHING, David Levine, video games, being annoyingly efficient, vintage pottery, Russell Wright, Eva Zeisel, Jean Michel Basquiat, mid-century modern furniture, Eames, Herman Miller, geishas, caecillian worms, triops, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Colllected first editions, maintaining playdoh purity, learning Spanish, my husband Gary, estate sales, trying to design my dream home, minimalism, treasure finding, learning how to be crafty like my friend Courtney, big fluffy Persian kitties, ECO-FRIENDLY living, trying to design the most incredible eco-friendly, efficient, aesthetically pleasing house on the beach for as little money as possible, trying to convince myself and others that my boobs really aren't that big, Tae Bo, TATTOOS, Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, trying to understand how my husband can possibly like the Grateful Dead THAT much, Gordon Ramsay, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Ikea, William H Macy, Patrick Star, Target, Dwell magazine, real estate drooling, real estate flipping, Volkswagen whore, my husband's painting.
Gordon Ramsay.
Operation Ivy, Depeche Mode, Youth of Today, Into Another, Rorshach, Bad Brains, Burn, Yuppicide, Bad Religion, Gorilla Biscuits, Fugazi, Minor Threat, de la Soul, Fugees, Black Eyed Peas, 7 Seconds, Candy Band, the Specials, Screeching Weasel, Crimpshrine, Pixies, Matisyahu, Quicksand, Bee Gees, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, dance hall reggae, REM, No Doubt, 80's new wave, Jimmy Cliff, Jason Mraz, Weezer, Dismay, Gwen Stefani, girl groups, No Doubt, ABBA, the Cure, the Smiths, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pogues, BEASTIE BOYS, Glenn Gould, Bob Marley, Yo Yo Ma, Aaron Copeland, Underdog, Depeche Mode, Weezer, Tom Waits, Lily Allen, i'm back into my ska phase again. Oi!
Stranger Than Fiction, The Killing Fields, Garden State, Office Space, Elizabeth, Pixar flicks, Nightmare Before Christmas, Peewee's Big Adventure, Ok- Tim Burton films galore...John Hughes, Dirty Dancing, John Waters' films, Schindlers List, The Last Emperor, anything Robert De Niro, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Shakespeare in Love, Pretty Woman, Memoirs of a Geisha, Reality Bites, Heathers, The Wedding Banquet, Woody Allen, anything William H Macy, Crash, The Red Lantern, Wedding Banquet, cheesy girl flicks...
BIG LOVE, The Office, Avatar the Last Airbender, My Name is Earl, Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Weeds, Top Chef, Gordon Ramsay, Top Designer, The Sopranos, Flip That House, Survivorman, Dwell, Spongebob Squarepants, Antiques Roadshow, Cash in the Attic (bbc version), Inked, ER, Law and Order (and all of the L&O castoffs), Higglety Town Heroes, crappy MTV reality shows, Changing Rooms, Saturday Night Live, Peewee's Playhouse, Brady Bunch, Celebrity Poker, IFC Channel, Sundance Channel, Bravo shows...
Kurt Vonnegut, Anais Nin, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, David Sedaris, Simone de Beauvoir, John Milton, Dante, Boccaccio, biographies on Tudor History, Amy Tan, books on geishas, most satirical writing past and present, W.B. Yeats, e.e. cummings, Shakespeare, John Donne, Joe Esterzhas, Jonathan Safran Foer, Bret Easton Ellis.
Kurt, Pu Yi, my father, the Dalai Lama, my daughter Mia.