A good burrito (no lettuce in it for crying out loud, are you people crazy or what!?), Roller Derby, underbites, Easy Cheese, Warhol Superstars, making up life stories of wierdos on the street, hitchhiking, freckles, roller skating at skateparks, cutting a rug, making out in ladies' rooms, motel room beach parties with a clock radio iPod soundtrack, shooting the shit, Wau Wau Sisters, hanging out with other derby leagues, my ex-boyfriend Jim Beam, long solo drives on lonely two lane highways, good music, RBH06 (yo!), reading, sock hops, exploitation films and the lifestyle that they promote, silly tattoos, getting money for nothing, the smell of scotch tape, laziness, hotel bars, mountain dew, vocal harmony, green lights, pretending I can afford to buy art, blue skies, and unsuccessfully trying to stay out of trouble, while trying to hang out more with Trouble.
Carnys, stunt men, synchronized swimmers, the person at Parker Bros. who is in charge of putting the spirits in all the Ouija Boards, Roller Derby Queens, Amy Sol, Mole People, puppeteers, PJ Soles, loose women, sleazy boys, anyone who would like to audition for the role of my mortal enemy, people with suspect morals, dirtbags, anyone who won't be afraid to tell me to shut the hell up when I deserve it, Tuesday Weld, someone who would eat a whole box of "Peeps" on a dare or drink a box of warm one dollar wine, etc.
Right now: The Ting Tings, The Duke Spirit, Santogold, Chromeo, The Pigeon Detectives, MGMT, Ghostland Observatory, Hercules & Love Affair, Kid Sister, Josef K, McCarthy, The Primitives, Young Marble Giants. Always: Blondie, The Kinks, Dolly Parton, Neko Case, New Order, Rolling Stones.
Unholy Rollers, Sensational Janine, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Royal Tennenbaums, Written on the Wind, Roman Holiday, Young Frankenstein, My Dream is Yours, Airplane!, Student Nurses, Clueless, Valley Girl, Ball of Fire, Death Race 2000, Chelsea Girls
Addict of CSI on DVD. So You Think You Can Dance? Beauty and the Geek. Test Patterns.
Play it as it Lays, the Sheltering Sky, Fanny Hill, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Summer of Night, All the King's Men, Concrete Island, Mythology by Edith Hamilton, And I Don't Want to Live this Life, Swimming Underground, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Cook a Wolf, any bios of silent film stars that time forgot and autobiographies of old Hollywood stars that don't culminate in two chapters describing how they found religion.
These folks below. From Top: Seattle's Junior Derby Girls, Andy and Edie, Tuesday Weld, Levi Strauss, Julie Christie, Joan Didion.