[postsecret, perezhilton, foundmagazine, passiveaggressivenotes].com. Concerts and music festivals. Good food. My dog, Sam-da-Lamb (and the kitties Zapata and Sid). Hiking. Reading. Roller Derby. Family. Sober. Poetry slams. Nostalgia. Veganism. Learning and speaking different languages. Queer and independant cinema. Bette Davis. Old friends with whom I have long pasts. Being ridiculous and silly. "This American Life" on NPR. Growing plants. Ocean. Wishing I had finished school at age 21. Kayaking. Writing. Meeting new people. Worrying. Swimming. Acadeeeemia/ learning things. Singin songs. Ewan McGregor. Super Mario 3 on old school Nintendo. Camping. Going to the theatre. Being lazy. Walking. Kissing. Big New Mexican skies. Cooking. Children. Travel.
Anyone and everyone.
Juanes, Bacilos, Yerba Buena, Manu Chau, Julieta Venegas, Chingon, also Indigo Girls, Guster, Patty Griffin, Dar Williams, The Waifs, Air, Queen, Simon plus or minus Garfunkel, Sarah M, Everything But the Girl, Regina Spektor, Ani, Stan Getz/ Los Gilbertos, Garbage, Kimya Dawson, The Beatles, They Might Be Giants, Edith Piaf, Po' Girl, Sarah Harmer, Harry Nilsson, Liz Phair, Nina Simone, Bjork, Etta James, Counting Crowes, Beatles, the "Garden State" soundtrack
Documentaries (The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Hands on a Hard Body, Grey Gardens, Paris is Burning, etc), mockumentaries (Guffman, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Spinal Tap, etc), Tipping the Velvet, All About Eve, Party Girl, Hitchcock, Magnolia, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, Dirty Dancing, Thumbsucker, The House of Yes, Dead Alive, Heathers, Lost Boys, Japanese horror, The Jerk, Fight Club, Mean Girls, 50% of Woody Allen movies, Sister Act 2, Empire Records, Trainspotting (or I guess anything with a full frontal of Ewan Mcgregor), Strangers With Candy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus (and most likely anything else John Cameron Mitchell is willing to give me in the future)
I LOVE Campus Ladies, Strangers With Candy, Da Ali G Show, Saturday Night Live, Arrested Development, Absolutely Fabulous, Queer as Folk, Six Feet Under... pretty much all shows that aren't on anymore.....
Right now, Gertrude Stein. All time faves: Operating Instructions, Bird By Bird, Travelling Mercies (Anne Lamott); The Red Tent (Anita Diamant); Middelsex (Jeffrey Eugenides); David Sedaris; Tom Robbins; Alice Walker; Jhumpa Lahiri; Jonathan Saffron Foer; Inga Muscio; Deborah Eisenberg.
Howard Zinn.