Music:
Garbage, Eurythmics, Blondie, Depeche Mode, Prince, Joan Armatrading, Angelo Badalamenti, Beethoven, Beatles, Nina Simone, Scissor Sisters, Vangelis, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Patti Smith, Goldfrapp, Bernard Herrmann, Dvorak, k.d. lang, Pretenders, Morcheeba, Sandra Bernhard, Concrete Blonde, Air, Millie Jackson, Imperial Teen, Marilyn Manson, Beck, David Bowie, Chris Isaak, Kate Bush, Heart, ONJ.
Movies:
David Lynch. Bob Fosse. Ridley Scott (20th Century only). Stanley Kubrick. James Ivory. Alfred Hitchcock. Alain Resnais. Quentin Tarantino. Billy Wilder. And amateur porn. Most particularly: Blade Runner; Mulholland Dr.; Cabaret; 2001; Howards End; Fight Club; Psycho. Also Muriel's Wedding; 9 to 5; Soapdish; Miss Firecracker. Anything with Sigourney Weaver or Gene Hackman.
Television:
I can't watch TV. It hurts. Except for The Simpsons. Any smart and well-made satire or parody will grab my interest, if I can remember when they're on. I don't think it's worth learning Tivo for 90 minutes of TV per month. In the last decade, I was devoted to Strangers with Candy, Sex and the City and The PJs.
Books:
Ayn Rand. E.M. Forster. John Irving. Michael Cunningham. David Leavitt. William Shakespeare. Bret Easton Ellis. Sophocles. Oscar Wilde. Virginia Woolf. Archibald MacLeish. Anne Tyler. Andrew Holleran. Stephen Fry. Evelyn Waugh. Chuck Palahniuk.
Heroes:
My dear friend KP, who taught me a new mantra recently: "Crazy doesn't know crazy is crazy."