Enjoying the pleasures of Cracker Barrels across the nation, traveling to underdeveloped nations, learning dialects of "official languages," making fun of British people, getting annoyed at British people who come to America and somehow immediately find rent-stabilized apartments in the best neighborhoods in New York City, hating Gwyneth Paltrow, and laughing at the "Left Behind Series" and Jack Chick comics.
I'd like to meet self-made people, right-brained mavericks, people with Attention Deficit Disorder, and writers who have never written for the following publications: The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair.People who liberally pepper conversations with lines such as, "When at Brown/Cornell/Harvard/Yale, etc. I..." need not apply. People who think Manhattan is the center of the universe need not apply either. Sorry. You are yokels.
'Til Tuesday, The Au Pairs, Corey Hart, David Bowie, The Dead Milkmen, Duran Duran, Electric Light Orchestra, Eminem, Eurythmics, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Gal Costa, Gil Gilberto, Grandmaster Flash, Gretchen Wilson, Hott Beat, Kristin Hersh, Lene Lovich, LL Cool J, Luke Kelly, The Dubliners, Martha & the Muffins, Mary Lou Lord, Milton Nascimento, Nina Hagan, Paul Anka, The Police, Sade, Sophie Tucker, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sublime, Tears for Fears, Throwing Muses, Tina Turner, Tom Petty, The Charlie Daniels Band, Caetano Veloso, X-Ray Spex, Wendy Carlos, Tomita.
Breakfast on Pluto, Brokeback Mountain, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Exotica, Heathers, Heavenly Creatures, Labyrinth, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Neverending Story, Contact, Last House on the Left, Pink Flamingos, Sweet and Lowdown, all disaster movies, such as Deep Impact.
I don't like television.
The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, The End of Alice, Lolita, In The Land of Men, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Secret History, Look at Me (Jennifer Egan).
Sophie Tucker, Madea "Mabel" Simmons, John Waters.