Nirvana, Mute Math, Ben Folds, Circa Survive, No Doubt, Sublime, Reel Big Fish, Thrice, Coheed and Cambria, Green Day, Our Lady Peace, Locale A.M., Billie Holiday, Incubus, Loretta Lynn, U2, John Mayer, Cyndi Lauper, Etta James, Patsy Cline, Rilo Kiley, Queens of the Stone Age, The Bouncing Souls, The Toadies, Matt Pond PA, Hot Hot Heat, Oasis, Reggie and the Full Effect, Queen, Waiting Theory, Weezer, Elvis Presley, Milkshed, Kanye West, Garbage, That Dog, Q and Not U, Madonna, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Christina Aguilera, The Foo Fighters, Lagwagon, Rancid, Buddy Holly, Saves the Day, The Get Up Kids, Thursday, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Paul Simon, NIN, Tammy Wynette, Mos Def, Blur, Maroon 5, STP, Unwritten Law, Beck, The Killers,
Dexter, The Office, Carnivale, Sex and the City, Rome, Big Love, Law and Order (all of them!), House, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, and what kind of twenty-something liberal would I be if I didn't love Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? My secret obsession is also trashy court shows, like Judge Judy and like.
The Bell Jar, Jane Eyre, Ariel, Any History books, Poetry collections by Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath, Anything by e.e. cummings, poetry volumes by Elizabeth Barret Browning, All Anne Rice books (but I prefer the Vampire Chronicles to the Mayfair Witches collection), Couples by John Updike (and really anything else he writes), all Kurt Vonnegut books, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Woman Destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir
My mother
Harriet Tubman
Alice Paul
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jackie O.
Ghandi
- And anybody who can find the courage to change for the better and understand with compassion the flaws of others