my fixed gear bicycle. vespas. especially vespas that might someday run. typewriters. old sewing machines. drinking rather heavily. members of fictional girl gangs. my fucking awesome dog Emma. books. sing-a-longs. letters. zines. fancy fridays (now saucy saturdays) the Bar Set Killers. sewing things to other things to make pictures, then making them into bags and stuff. stoles that are made of whole foxes (minks, really anything small and furry) with the head and legs still attached. crazy hats. bakelite. toby's tofu pate. warm days. headscarves. pink shoes. shoes in general. knee socks or wool socks, no other kinds of socks. fishnet tights. polka dots. violent polka dancing. old buttons. guitar. running. screen printing. laughter. honesty. coffee. photography. dotty-dots. cigarettes.
someone who can teach me how to do *everything*
Awesome Animal Ambulance, Erik Petersen, the Devil Makes Three, Stiff Little Fingers, the Beltones, the Bouncing Souls, the Meteors, Spitboy, Submission Hold, Johnny Cash, Willy Mason, Dolly Parton, Bladder Bladder Bladder, Blatz, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Assembly of God, Operation, the Reverend Horton Heat, My Womb is a Shithouse,The Amazing Crowns, the Pixies, the Ducky Boys, Powersolo, the Cramps, Los Crudos, A.P.P.L.E., Pinkerton Thugs, Blitz, Against Me!, Zombina and the Skeletones, Totalitar, the Deadbillys, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Discount. Oh No! Oh My! The Sea and Cake, the Rezillos, Sharks Keep Moving, Pretty Girls Make Graves. Deerhoof. Get Him Eat Him. Strawberry Switchblade. John Vanderslice. Camera Obscura. the Old Crow Medicine Show. the Ditty Bops. Now, look at that list and I guarantee that at least some of the bands will make your ears bleed. Deal.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I heart Huckabees. Good-Bye Lenin. Suicide Kings. Boondock Saints. The Big Lebowski. De-Lovely. How to Draw a Bunny. Night of the Living Dead. Russian Silent Films. Marie Antoinette.
Okay, I'll admit it. I have been watching Sex and the City and enjoying it.
Rise up Singing. Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo. Bend Sinister, Nabokov. Austerlitz, Sebald. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy. Anna Karenina and Resurrection, Tolstoy. A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold. all Vonnegut. Krik? Krak!, Edwidge Danticat, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction, JD Salinger, the Chainbreaker zine, Americas Best Nonrequired Reading, a Fool's Progress and Down the River, Ed Abbey.
My Father. Every single one of my good friends.