Words, food, religion, politics, insects
People who aren't jerks.
Assbutts, Mazinga, Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird, Bob Dylan, Beck, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, Etta James, Cornershop, Fiona Apple, White Stripes, Iron&Wine, David Sylvian, Muddy Waters, Gogol Bordello, Sigur Ros, The Beatles, Yes, Rush, King Crimson, 1970s Genesis, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Metallica, Primus, Ornette Coleman, John Fahey, John Renbourn, Kaki King, Taj Mahal, Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten, Beth Orton, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, The Gypsy Kings, Sarah Vaughn, Led Zeppelin, Jimmi Hendrix, U2, The Raconteurs, Tori Amos, Ali Farka Toure, Ravi Shankar, Talvin Singh, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ray Charles, Etta James, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Leftfield, Nightmares On Wax, James Brown, Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Prince, The Queers, The Slackers, Desmond Dekker, Cassandra Wilson
Newish movies that I haven't seen but want to: Your Mommy Kills Animals, Shortbus Movies I will always love: Adaptation, The Big Lebowski, Torch Song Trilogy, My Left Foot, Barfly, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Godfather, Holy Smoke, The Fisher King, Withnail And I, Ong Bak, The World According to Garp, A Room With A View, Magnolia, Office Space, Punch Drunk Love, District B-13, Lilo & Stitch, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Little Miss Sunshine, Welcome To The Dollhouse, The Hustler, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Rear Window, Notorious, Goodfellas, Once Upon a Time In The West, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The Seven Samurai, Ma Vie En Rose, Fast Cheap and Out of Control
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Simpsons, Good Eats, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Writers I love: Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Charles Bukowski, Salman Rushdie, Alan Watts, David Sedaris... Books that I love or that have made an impact: Written on The Body, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Earth Beneath Her Feet, The God of Small Things, Life of Pi, Native Son, Tropic of Cancer, Skinny Legs and All, Jitterbug Perfume, Frankenstein, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan, Another Roadside Attraction, The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, Oryx and Crake, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, First They Killed My Father, Love Is A Dog From Hell, Mocking Bird Wish Me Luck, Ham On Rye, The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills, Woman Warrior, Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, Wifey, A Light In August, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Jayne Eyre, Confederacy of Dunces, American Gods, Siddartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, Metamophosis, Arrow of a Blue Skinned God, Fast Food Nation, Autobiography of a Yogi, The Double Mirror, Jazz, Sula, Song of Solomon, Naked Lunch, Paradise Lost, Gulliver's Travels, Bloom County, The Far Side, The Tao Te Ching, Morning in the Burned House, American Primitive, The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain, Pale Blue Dot, Ferdinand, Where The Sidewalk Ends,
Bob Dylan, Carl Sagan, Muhammad Ali, Oscar Wilde..