Reading, writing, drawing, art, pop art, learning, education, traveling by broom, music, playing the ukulele, rats, indie comics, vegetarianism, Harley Quinn, feminism, halloween, playing dress up, film, local music, everlasting adolescence, make believe, photography, a rainbow of hair colors, basenjis, poodles, sun flowers, the beach and wild adventures.
"In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do."
-Lewis Carroll
"He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too."- Through The Looking Glass
Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Joan Jett, The Grateful Dead, Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Sarah Slean, Tori Amos, Kidney Thieves, Bob Marley, The Carpenters, The Decemberists, Led Zeppelin, Better Than Ezra, Oingo Boingo, Billie Holiday, Sarah McLachlan, Coldplay, Zero 7, Colin Hay, Steppenwolf, Cary Brothers, Remy Zero, Iron and Wine, Frou Frou, Ray Charles, Skip James, Otis Redding, Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, Lionel Belasco, Little Hat Jones, David Kitay, The Postal Service, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Antony And The Johnsons, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Kate Bush, Velvet Underground, Craig Cardiff, Damien Rice, Rilo Kiley, Death Cab for Cutie, Loreena McKennitt, Lightnin' Hopkins, Cat Power, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, The Pretenders, Eric Clapton, Emiliana Torrini and more than I can list here.
Ghost World, Lost in Translation, Quills, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, Annie Hall, The House of Yes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas, Buffalo '66, Howard the Duck, Jurassic Park, Leaving Las Vegas, The Bride of Chucky, Harry Potter, The Last Unicorn, V for Vendetta, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Shimotsuma Monogatari, The Secretary, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Manhattan.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, IT by Stephen King, All The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The End of Alice by A.M. Homes, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Wuthering Heightsby Emily Brontë, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, Sandman by Neil Gaiman, anything by e. e. cummings, Shel Silverstein, Still She Haunts Me by Katie Ralphie, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys by Chris Furman, The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, Congo and Jurrassic Park by Michael Crichton, Dreamhouse by Alison Habens, Childwold by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, Henry and June by Anais Nin...among others.
My grandma.