The Ocean, Showers with windows in them, Other cool dorks, Village Voice adult adds, wrestling, Eloise, Stone Femmes, Fat-Radical-kind-kiss you-kick your ass-help you breathe-Rock Stars, watercolors and craypas, fruit, photobooths, Coney Island, Elevated subways, Musicals, diaspora history, Immigration history, PR history, Mexican history, New York history/Gay history/history of language/history of anything I can get, Prison/Education reform, The Cyclone, Singing Absent-mindedly, Sex to good music, cooking for people, copy machines, Tempeh, not-boring Dyke Erotica, warm city rain, skinny dipping, roofs/firescapes/porches and the likes, Beads, (of glass and sweat), Dan Savage, corn tortillas, the Brooklyn Bridge, being naked...
Prince, Nan Goldin, Cherrie Moraga, and Margaret Cho for living starters... Whoopi Goldberg was also on the list, but I bumped into her with my ass, (literally), in Barnes and Nobles recently, so, you know, one down. Writers who are trying to get to the bare-bones of their shit.
Some choice individuals- Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Bessie Smith, Aretha, Sweet Honey, Tracy Chapman, Laura Nyro, Sy and the family stone, Hypnotic Brass Band, Jill Scott, Otis Redding, Bonnie Raitt, Donny Hathaway, Toshi Reagon, Angelique Kidjo, Lauryn Hill, Ani, Ms. Badu, Prince, Hendrix, Neil Pointer, Peter Tosh, Gustavo Santoalolla, Stevie Wonder, Fiona Apple, Miles Davis, The Chieftans, Chaka Khan, Meshell Ndegeocello, Pete Seeger, Mirah
Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Camp Nowhere, Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan(Mary Martin), Mary Poppins, Four Rooms, Mermaids, Superstar, The Birdcage
Six Feet Under, Roseanne, Subway Q and A, Real sex, Starangers with Candy, Dexter, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks and Geeks, Sesame Street, Globe Trekker
Eloise, Naked, Before Night Falls, I Am A Red Dress, Harry Potter, Sister Outsider, Love Medicine, This Bridge Called My Back, Tar Beach, The Little Prince, Zami, Loving in the War Years, Waiting in the Wings, Temple of My Familiar
Audre Lorde, Aquaman, Judee, single parents, breastfeeders, Judith Jameson and Alvin Ailey, Maddy, Emiliano Zapata, Faith Ringold, Nika the dog, my sister, Eak the Geek and Coney Island USA, women of color, mi Mama, those of us brave enough to love, those of us surviving