contemporary art, photography, sociology, gay clones, complicated situations, intense conversations, attempts at decission making, progressive politics, homosexuality, refinishing vintage furniture, learning German (very slowly), teaching, and traveling to just about anywhere... as of late, graphic design is making a resurgence in my life.
people who inspire.
The Runaways, 2raumwohnung, The Buzzcocks, The Vaselines, The Clinic, The Clientele, The Cocteau Twins, The Olivia Tremor Control, Devendra Banhart, The Magnetic Fields, Joy Division, The Germs, Cat Power, Stereo Total, Francophile Musique (Dutronc, Hardy, Gainsbourg), anything trashy from the 1980's
Two Handfulls
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen... amazing. Ricarda Roggan's Stuhl, Tisch, und Bett, Smiths A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Fiona Buckland's Impossible Dance, Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependancy, Tina Barney's Theater of Manners, Nancy Spector's Felix Gonzalles Torres catalog, personal pictures and family photo albulms, and The Lonely Bones
Felix Gonzalles Torres, Alice Sebold, James Baldwin, Dennis Kucinich, although he doesn't have a chance.