Writing, Craisins, flighted & flightless birds, photography, reading Lolita for the nth time, studying menus, hypochondria, meteorology, candles that smell like baked goods, The Onion, dogs, non-dog animals, vintage accessories, jaunty hats (theoretically), folklore, procrastination, garage sales, petting zoos, having the same conversation over and over, semiotics,watching HGTV with my mom, countdowns, coupons, attempting to cook in a real way, montages, The Busy World Of Richard Scarey, Swiffer Duster, Ken Rutsky, stinky cheese, mix tapes, Depression glass, Winnie The Pooh, proofreading, pretending to hate the mall, wrinkly dogs, cultural studies, spilling things, insides and outsides, supermarkets
people I already know, apparently.
Leonard Cohen, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, They Might Be Giants, Richard Thompson, Porcupine Tree, Jens Lekman, Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Cash, Radiohead, Patsy Cline, Otis Redding, Fugazi, Jeff Buckley, BB King, Neil Diamond, Tori Amos, Charlie Parker, Patti Smith, Portishead, the early 90s buzzclip trifecta, David Bowie, CCR, Coltrane, Motown,Ledbelly, Al Green, Sleater Kinney, Parliament, The Animals, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, The Smiths, Pulp, Phil Ochs, Maria Callas, Cornershop, The Clash, Satchmo, ABBA, Steely Dan, effete-fronted 80s synthpop, 60s girl groups
Delicatessen, M, The Conversation, Ran, Raise The Red Lantern, All About Eve, anything Hitchcock, The Apartment, Children Of Paradise, Mommie Dearest, Goodfellas, Takashi Miike, Repulsion, Metropolis, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Kubrick, Watership Down, Brazil, Double Indemnity, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Unforgiven, Heavenly Creatures, Princess Bride, everything Christopher Guest, Harold & Maude, Monty Python, The John Hughes oeuvre, Marx Bros, Chicken Run, Wallace & Grommit, everything Mel Brooks, Throw Mama From The Train, Mad Monster Party, Rocky IV, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Neverending Story, every Muppet Movie, Charlotte's Web, Dumbo, The Pink Panther, Airplane, Hedwig, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Evil Dead, Spider Baby, Dementia 13, Kill Bill Vol.1&2, The Changeling, TheCabinet Of Dr.Caligari, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Them!, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, George Romero, Universal Monster movies, Nosferatu, William Castle, Forbidden Planet, Tarantula, The Puppet Master series, The Haunting, DeadAlive, BasketCase, assorted Z-grade atrocities
The first step is admitting you have a problem: The Golden Girls, The Weather Channel, The Simpsons, The Wire, Good Eats, Iron Chef, Flight of the Concords, most Britcoms, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Homicide, MST3K, The Shield, All In The Family, Roseanne, Nip/Tuck, Mr. Show, The Muppet Show, CYE, UCB, old sketch comedy, 80s nostalgia
Vladimir Nabokov,Raymond Carver,Samuel Delaney,Umberto Eco,Jacques Derrida,Donna Haraway,Roland Barthes,Ntozake Shange,Sylvia Plath,Borges,Mencken,Samuel Beckett,Dave Eggers,Joyce Carol Oates,Michel Foucault, Blu's Hanging, Toni Morrison, Baudrillard
Everyone else