Books, dogs, scuba diving, rugby, chocolate, opera, tattoos, naps, photography, oysters, bees, nudibranchs, India, pagan spirituality, voudou, crossword puzzles, The Macallan, Diane Arbus, cheese fries, marbles, maneki neko, gladiator movies
Matthew Bourne, Cindy Sherman, George Clooney, Kate Bush, David Daniels, Nathan Gunn, Babydaddy, Alan Ball, Cyndi Lauper, Cate Blanchett, and, of course, Joan and Jackie Collins.
Aimee Mann, DiVinyls, Queen, Concrete Blonde, Toni Childs, Robbie Robertson, Pink, Leslie and the Ly's, Martha Davis and the Motels, Rolling Stones, Mika, Kim Richey, Thompson Twins, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosanne Cash, AC/DC, Stevie Nicks, Lordi, Matraca Berg, Joan Jett, Scissor Sisters, kd lang, John Mellencamp, Kate Bush, Enter the Haggis, Pretenders, Tom Petty
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, All About Eve, Gladiator, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, Dark City, Amadeus, The Philadelphia Story, Pan's Labyrinth, Joyeux Noel, Sirens
Heroes, Firefly, and, well, I don't actually watch much TV except for bad reality programs I'm too ashamed to admit to.
Tove Jansson, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Mark Helprin, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Philip Pullman, Joyce Carol Oates, Gregory Maguire, Dylan Thomas, Sinclair Lewis
Aquaman, Wonder Woman, anyone who survived growing up Catholic or Evangelical Christian