Anything wildly entertaining. Compulsively observant. Generosity of self. Incapable of not smiling like 80% of the time. Character study films and documentaries. The quiet stillness of fall afternoons. The never ending battle of romanticism vs. realism inside my head. Indian food. Lackadaisical is my favorite word, phonetically speaking. An unexplainable urge to smell gross things. Savasana. Ocean waves. Carthartic confessions of self. Inexplicably drawn to the socially awkward and self-absorbed. Obsessively over-analyzing everything. Feel completely naked without jewelry. Insatiable curiosity of life. Tap water, no ice. Boldness. Semi-vast knowledge of random useless facts. Spinach. Never giving up on what you love. Procrastination. Easy come, easy go. Those who rise above. TX sunsets. Men who cry on occasion and sit with their legs crossed. Tea-tree oil. Studying people to dissect them. Crazy-talented people. Thinking and talking way too fast for people who don't know me.
Intellects, Artists, Humanitarians...
"There's Heaven, Purgatory, Hell and the Blues...I'm tryin' to crawl my way up from the blues." - Townes Van Zandt. Otis Redding. Smiths. Rolling Stones. Woven Hand. Leornard Cohen. Linda Ronstadt. Ma Rainey. Love. Cat Power. The Spinners. Cure. Neko Case. 16 Horsepower. Sinead O'Connor. Dolly. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Shins. Cash. Dylan. T Rex. Magnetic Fields. Depeche Mode. Andrew Bird. Stone Roses. Sam and Dave. Fugazi. Dusty Springfield. Chavela Vargas. The The. Bonnie Prince Billy. Pixies. Jeff Buckley. Joni Mitchell. Devotchka. Iron and Wine. New Pornographers. Antony and the Johnsons. TV on the Radio. Peter Bjorn and John. Built to Spill. Flying Burrito Brothers. Jose Gonzales. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. White Stripes. Arcade Fire. Sufjan Stevens. The Knife. Radiohead. New Order. Velvet Underground. Devendra Banhart. White Magic. Joanna Newsome. Pulp. Blonde Redhead. Any and all booty shakin' inspiration.
Beautiful Girls. Mad Hot Ballroom. Eve's Bayou. The United States of Leland. Pan's Labyrinth. Cronos. Devil's Babckbone. Wet Hot American Summer. Tin Drum. Me Without You. Odishon. Raising Victor Vargas. Dark Days. Be Here to Love Me. The Fog of War. St. Elmo's Fire. House of Flying Daggers. Volver. When The Mountains Tremble. Hideous Kinky. The Whole Wide World. All The Real Girls. The Believer. Bottle Rocket. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. Wal Mart: High Cost of Low Price. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Gimme Shelter. Breathless. Slam. Whale Rider. The Weather Underground. Mi Vie En Rose. Hot Fuzz. Myth of Fingerprints. Bend It Like Beckham. The Celebration. Cat's Meow. Cosi. Death and the Maiden. Lumumba. Annie Hall. The Corporation. Waiting For Guffman. Shag. Heavenly Creatures. Prick Up Your Ears. The Royal Tennenbaums. Beautiful Thing. In America. The Sea Inside. SLC Punk. Me and You and Everyone We Know. City of God. Knocked Up. The Weather Underground. Born Into Brothels. Green Street Holligans. My Beautiful Launderette. Dreamlife of Angels. The Barbarian Invasions.
Run's House. Meet The Press, John McLaughlin Group and The Daily Show. Bill Maher and Ross the Intern. Reno 911. Grey's Anatomy. RIP: Freaks and Geeks, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development and 6 Feet Under.
"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. " - A Room Of One's Own by Virgina Woolf. We the Living by Ayn Rand. Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Persepolis & Persepolis 2 by Marjane Sartrapi. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynahan & Didrik Soderling. The God of Small Things by Arundati Roy. The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Anyone willing to fight for their beliefs to the point of dying (i.e. Patrice Emery Lumumba), Dolly Parton and of course MY MOTHER - a kindred, irreverent and beautiful spirit.