Rockabilly, roots, honky tonk, old C&W, and bluegrass music. Mid-century arts, crafts, clothing, architecture, furniture and cars. Animules - warm and fuzzy or cold and scaly - I lurv 'em all. Haute shoes and boots and K-Mart clothes. Cute-overload.com
Talking animals, Competitive Hotdog-Eating Contest Winners, the guy/gal who invented pickled pigs feet
Wanda Jackson, Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison, Elvis, Allison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, The Cramps, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Lucky Stars, Tom Waits, Bjork, David Bowie, Magnetic Fields, Guided by Voices
Spirited Away, early Eroll Morris, Werner Herzog's documentaries, Grey Gardens, pre-Serial Mom John Waters, My Life as a Dog, Billy Wilder, Blue Velvet, Last King of Scotland
Daily Show and Colbert Report -- and that's about it
coffee table books by my pal Charles Phoenix, Foxfire series on old-timey Appalachian ways, cookbooks, books about bunnies
Jane Goodall, Wangari Maathai, Arundhati Roy...all those environmentalist, nobel-peace-prize-winnin' chicks.