I'm not into this west coast spine-deficient bullshit. But I'm here. And I'll teach you how to be more like me. ;)
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AGs, Alt Comics, bursting into song, Butter Pecan Haagen Dazs, Cha Cha Lounge in Los Angeles (Silverlake), Diesel Sneaks, Frameline Film Festival (Fun in Girls' Shorts), Frappuccinos, giving back to UC Berkeley, Glossy magazines, Henry Art Gallery (UW), Hiking (Discovery Park, Tilden, Point Reyes), James jeans, James Perse, Makeup, Marc Jacobs, Modern Dance and Ballet Technique, pink and purple, Pink pigs, Romare Bearden, Soul food, Squiggle vision, Traveling (Seattle, NYC, London), Writing (short stories, sociopolitical rants, journaling), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Yoshitomo Nara
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.â€
“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.â€
-Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993, social activist and tennis player, 1st black (and still, ONLY) to win the men's singles in tennis at Wimbledon
Alice in Chains, AND A FEW TO BREAK, Angie Stone, ANI DIFRANCO, Art Blakey, At the Drive In, BAD RELIGION, BEN FOLDS, Billy Joel, BLEU, Broken Social Scene, Clive, Company Car, Coraline, Cybernetiq, Deb Talan, ELLA FITZGERALD, Esthero, Everclear, FRANK SINATRA, Godsmack, Guster, Havoc Suns, if nobody knew, Jill Scott, JOHN COLTRANE, Jonatha Brooke, Kings of Convenience, Ledisi, MARTIN SEXTON, METALLICA, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Or So It Goes, Patty Griffin, Pearl Jam, Pelusa, Prince, Reverend Horton Heat, Ruthie Foster, SARAH VAUGHAN, Shirley Horn, the Smiths, SON VOLT, Soundgarden, Squeeze, Stone Temple Pilots, Sunny Day Real Estate, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, Toad the Wet Sprocket, THE WALKUPS, Weezer, Woven Hand, You.May.Die.In.The.Desert
Annie Hall, Art School Confidential, Better Off Dead, The Big Lebowski, Black Is...Black Ain't, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Coming to America, Friends With Money (and all the other Nicole Holofcener films), Half Baked, Half Nelson, Hollywood Shuffle, old James Bond movies, Lathe of Heaven, Lost in Translation, Pride and Prejudice (any version, I love them all), ROCKY IV, The Science of Sleep, Some Kind of Monster, most Spike Lee movies, Spinal Tap, Stranger than Fiction, SWEENEY TODD, Waiting for Guffman
Real Time with Bill Maher, CSI, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dr. Katz, The Early Show, Entourage, In Treatment, Law n Order Criminal Intent and Special Victims Unit, Masterpiece Theatre's "Jane Eyre", Mystery Night on PBS, Sex and the City, South Park, Venture Brothers, Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Anderson Cooper 360, Y&R
Care of the Soul, Conscientious Objections, Consolations of Philosophy, A Different Mirror, Fear of Flying, Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, God of Small Things, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, He's Just Not That Into You, House on Mango Street, Interpreter of Maladies, Invisibility Blues, JANE AUSTEN (I've read all her freaking novels, the woman is a f*cking GENIUS! Go go Victorian era GO!), JANE EYRE, Killing Rage, Kitchen, Lap Dancing for Mommy, A Million Little Pieces, Outlaw Culture, Quirkyalone, Reading Sex and the City, Road Less Traveled, the Romantic Movement, Sisters of the Yam, Soul Mates, The Worst Day of My Life, So Far (M.A. Harper)
MAGS AND NEWSPAPERS: Allure, Alternet, Bitch, Budget Living, Bust, Domino, Elle, The Guardian UK, Lucky, Newsweek, the New Yorker (only good for Shouts n Murmers, fiction, the poetry laced throughout, their kickass cartoons!), New York Press, NY Times Online, Nylon, The Onion, Psychologies, SF Bay Guardian, The Stranger, VOGUE, Wired
My mom Barbara, Gandhi, Harry Belafonte, Larry David, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Michael Moore, Michele Wallace, my friends Deb, Michael, Sinead O'Connor, Stephen Colbert, bell hooks, John Edwards, Bill Maher