In another life: Buckminster Fuller, Michel Foucault, Paul Ricoeur, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Dominic Caputo (my great-great grandfather), Amy Thomson (my aunt's first-born daughter), Emily Dickinson, Victor Turner, Bill Hicks. In this one: Tori Amos, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper (10/3/05, West Hollywood Book Fair!!!!), Peter Gabriel (it may happen!), Rufus Wainwright (for real...not at a Border's in-store signing!), Grace Llewellyn, Pema Chodron, Enrique Dussel, Miranda July, Catherine Breillat, Sofia Coppolla, Pedro Almodovar, Jamie Kennedy, Sarah Polley, Bjork, Elizabeth Dodson Gray, Natalie Goldberg, Donna Haraway, Michael Taussig, George Lipsitz, SARK, John Cameron Mitchell, Paul Giamatti (since I saw him in My Best Friend's Wedding...a TRUE fan!!!), Matt Damon, Hal Hartley, Michael C. Hall
The Beatles, Wilco, Tori Amos, Rufus Wainwright, Neil Finn, Elliot Smith, Liz Phair (1st album), The Clash, Pixies, Prince, Beck, Bjork, R.E.M., Elvis Costello, Fiona Apple, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Kid Cholera, Dru Lupkey, Keith and The Complications, M.I.A., Melissa Morales, Garifuna music, Serge Gainsbourg, Shakira, Oslo, Jeff Buckley, Velvet Underground, Peter Gabriel, Peaches, U2, Simon and Garfunkel, SuperDevoiche, Iddi Saaka, Tears For Fears, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead, Low, Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, Milton Nascimento, Iarla Ó Lionáird, PJ Harvey, Derrick Spiva Jr., The Arcade Fire, The Jesus Lizard, Anthony McCann, Tzvetanka Varimezova, Kate Bush, Joy Division, Split Enz, Spiritualized, Michael Andrews, VOCO, C Sharp, Jon Brion, The Bad Plus
Phantom of the Paradise, The Shawshank Redemption, Henry Fool, Singles, Say Anything, High Fidelity, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Memento, Sideways, Better Off Dead, Breaking the Waves, Quiz Show, Guinevere, Lost in Translation, A Night at the Opera, Grease, Talk To Her, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The English Patient, Stuck On You, Good Will Hunting, Harold and Maude, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rushmore, Dogville, American Beauty, Amelie, Romance, House of Sand and Fog, Orlando, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Max Dugan Returns, The Ruling Class, Brokeback Mountain, Rosemary's Baby, Dogma, Happy Gilmore, Deathtrap, Grace Of My Heart
Rhoda, Will and Grace, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Dave Chappelle Show, Charlie Rose, Good Neighbours, Dexter
Another Roadside Attraction (Tom Robbins), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers), Jitterbug Perfume (Robbins), Time and Narrative (Paul Ricoeur), Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein), Truth and Method (Hans-Georg Gadamer), Blubber (Judy Blume), A Short History of the Movies (Gerald Mast), The Teenage Liberation Handbook (Grace Llewellyn), Writing Down the Bones (Natalie Goldberg), When Things Fall Apart (Pema Chodron), Green Paradise Lost (Elizabeth Dodson Gray), The Two Milpas of Chan Kom (Alicia Re Cruz), The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)