I live for modern art, so I love going to museum and gallery openings, as well as performances (especially if it's one of my friends' work.) I like to walk a lot too. One of my favourite things to do is to walk around Lake Calhoun during the summer. I also love to eat and there's quite a few interesting places to dine at here in Minneapolis. Hanging out with my friends is probably what I do most frequently... since we all enjoy a good cocktail here and then. I like to go to the Caterpillar Lounge and the 19, mostly. Every once in a while I enjoy a bit of bowling (I'm NOT athletic and this is the only "sport" I'm actually kind of good at.) Going to concerts is also high on my list. There's a great local music scene here, so there's plenty of top notch shows to go see at any time during the week. And the older I get, unfortunately, the more I enjoy a good night's sleep.
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Pet Shop Boys, Stereolab, His Name Is Alive, Talking Heads, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, Fischerspooner, Devo, Peaches, Antony And The Johnsons, They Might Be Giants, Kraftwerk, Prince, Hot Chip, Final Fantasy, Bjork, The Postal Service, Har Mar Superstar, Aphex Twin, David Bowie, The Hidden Cameras, Radiohead, Justice, Yoko Ono, Nelly Furtado, Air, Cafe Tacuba, Matmos, The Bad Plus, Eurythmics, Bebel Gilberto, Ladytron, Spoonfed Hybrid, Basia, Missy Elliott, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, RJD2, Matisyahu, Low, Sinead O'Connor, The Cure, Marilyn Manson, Scissor Sisters, Happy Apple, Madonna, The Cardigans, Morrissey, R.E.M., DJ Shadow, Pinback, Miss Kittin, TLC, Sufjan Stevens, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Hem, Gus Gus, Nellie McKay, Grandaddy, Depeche Mode, Coach Said Not To, Neko Case, ABBA, Daft Punk, Flans, The Free Design, Aaliyah, Gay Beast, The Mavericks, New Order, The Beatles, Daniel Johnston, Sigur Ros, The Darkness, Sparklehorse, Swing Out Sister, Junior Senior, Rosie Thomas, Sean Paul, Andrew Bird, Fleetwood Mac, Ben Folds, The Smiths, B-52's and many, many, many more... I'm a HUGE music freak.
Swoon, Safe, The Devil And Daniel Johnston, Grey Gardens, 20 Centimetros, Palindromes, The Tango Lesson, Happy Together, In The Company Of Men, Touch The Sound, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Sick, You And Me And Everyone We Know, Party Girl, A Brief History Of Time, Paradise Now, Basquiat, Happiness, The Legend Of Leigh Bowery, High Art, Amores Perros, Party Monster, Heathers, Dancer In The Dark, Jandek On Corwood, The Nomi Song, Brokeback Mountain, The Eighth Day, Frida, The Shape of Things, Gigantic, Ma Vie En Rose, Grease, Bread And Roses, Farenheit 911, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dottie Gets Spanked, El Callejon De Los Milagros, Yes, Monster, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Como Agua Para Chocolate, Helvetica, Rivers And Tides, Orlando, El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, Dogville and many more. Lots of these are documentaries, which is my favourite kind of film.
The Simpsons, Extras, Law And Order SVU, 30 Rock, Gilmore Girls, Ugly Betty, Absolutely Fabulous, Strangers With Candy, The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, Will And Grace, The Vicar Of Dibley, Scrubs, Reno 911, The Office, Roseanne, My Hero, Freaks And Geeks, Designing Women, My Name Is Earl, The New Adventures Of Old Christine, Wonder Showzen, Golden Girls, Red Dwarf, King Of The Hill, Father Ted, The L Word, Sex In The City, The Nanny, Seinfeld, Frontline, Ellen, King Of Queens, Almanac, Mama's Family, Girlfriends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Half And Half. TV is evil, but whadya gonna do?
"The Kiss" by Kathryn Harrison, "Lucky" by Alice Sebold, "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich, "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides, "Kick Me" by Paul Feig, "The Evening Crowd At Kirmser's" by Ricardo J. Brown, "Join Me!" by Danny Wallace, "Why The Long Face?" by Craig Chester, "Fat Girl" by Judith Moore, "How Wal-Mart Is Destroying America (And The World)" by Bill Quinn, "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" by Al Franken, "Sissyphobia" by Tim Berglin, "A Crackup At The Race Riots" by Harmony Korine, "The Culture Of Fear" by Barry Glassner, "Goat" by Brad Land, "Honky" by Dalton Conley, "Monster" by Brian Bouldrey, "Take The Cannoli" by Sarah Vowell, "The Trouble With Normal" by Michael Warner, "Diary Of An Emotional Idiot" by Maggie Estep and many others. I absolutely LOVE memoirs!
Not so much as HEROES, but people who have INFLUENCED me during my life: Joel-Peter Witkin, Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Vaughan Oliver, David Byrne, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, Stephen Hawking, Francis Bacon, Donald Judd, Raf Simons, Peter Gabriel, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Sandra Bernhard, John Waters, Eiko Ishioka, Bob Flanagan, Tilda Swinton, Leigh Bowery, Sandy Skoglund, Daniel Johnston, Jean Paul Gaultier, Salvador Dali, Yoko Ono, Amy Sedaris, Issey Miyake, Sarah Silverman, David Bowie, The Brothers Quay, Bjork Gudmundsdottir, Todd Solondz, Mark Farrow, Michel Gondry, Henri Matisse, Santiago Calatrava, Klaus Nomi, Tarsem, Martha Graham, Shirin Neshat, Todd Haynes, Annie Lennox, Neil Labute, The Starn Twins, Parker Posey, Sally Potter, Todd Oldham, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Jim Henson, Evelyn Glennie, Andy Warhol, Jana Sterbak, Tom Friedman, Andy Goldsworthy, David Carson, Mark Romanek, Toby Huss, Pierre et Gilles, Pablo Picasso, Martha Stewart, Frank Gehry, Matt Groening, Kevin Smith, Rene Magritte, Isaac Mizrahi, Dan Flavin, Lily Taylor, Tom Kalin, Barbara Kruger, Keith Haring, Annie Sprinkle, Chris Cunningham, Divine, Andres Serrano, Peter Saville, Alexander McQueen, Dr. Suess, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ricky Gervais, Santiago Sierra, my family and everyone I've ever had a connection with.