Art, my dog, politics, history, labor issues, my dog, photography, British motorcycles, weird old junk, my dog, Trash Film Orgy, old cemeteries, thrift stores. And my dog.
My male equivalent! (Preferably, he will ride up to my door on a Vincent Black Shadow or a Norton Commando, but I'm not picky - a Triumph or BSA or Royal Enfield or Velocette or Ariel will do just fine.) Also union activists, flaming liberals, Bush-haters, artists, musicians, actors and writers. And people who don't make fun of my cowboy boots and don't mind hearing Buck Owens or George Jones when they come to my house.(If I don't already know you, please e-mail me before asking me to add you. Thanks.)
Delta blues, Chicago blues, old country, old R&B and soul, Cajun, a lot of stuff on the Fat Possum label, some punk. Junior Wells, Slim Harpo, Etta James, Neko Case, the Carter Family, Robert Johnson, the Crooked Jades, Wanda Jackson, George Jones, Otis Redding, Ralph Stanley, Johnny Cash, the Handsome Family, Irma Thomas, the Louvin Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Loretta Lynn, Gram Parsons, Lucinda Williams, Patsy Cline, Memphis Minnie, B.B. King, Merle Haggard, John Lee Hooker, Emmylou Harris, Social Distortion, the Ramones. Local bands: the Pyronauts, the Shruggs, SACRAMENTO and - most of all - Th' Losin' Streaks!
Coen brothers, Quay brothers, John Waters, Michael Moore. "The Motorcycle Diaries," "The Thin Red Line," "Bladerunner," "Norma Rae," "Reservoir Dogs," "Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill," "Blood Simple," "Blue Velvet," "Spider Baby," "MotorPsycho," "A Christmas Story," "Days of Heaven," "The World's Fastest Indian," "Institute Benjamenta," "La Belle et la Bête."
Flannery O'Connor, Poppy Z. Brite, Luc Sante, Michael Lesy, David Sedaris, biographies, history. "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon, "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole, "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me" by Richard Farina, "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy, "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.
Mother Jones, Utah Phillips.