cool guitars, making zines, records, pop music, basil brush, my two cats - Casimira and Malkovich, catching cats looking undignified and laughing, fine young adult fiction, treating authors like pop stars, skateboarding again.
I'd like to meet:
Mary Gaitskill.
Music:
Sleater-Kinney, Pixies, Aislers Set, Blondie, Saint Etienne, My Bloody Valentine, The Red Krayola, Wire, The Gladeyes, OutKast, Royal Trux, NERD, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre only the first LP, Sly Stone, T. Rex, Perry and Kingsley, Scott Walker, Sonic Youth, Raincoats, Au Pairs, the Slits, other herky jerky stuff, Gang of Four, Laurie Anderson, Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, Richard Hell, B52s, Cat Power, Helium, Runaways, Dusty Springfield, Herbert, Nancy Sinatra, Young Marble Giants, The Gist, Talking Heads, Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, The Smiths, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Minutemen, Fleetwood Mac, Sam Cooke, New Order, Kraftwerk, Essential Logic, The Normal, Tribe Called Quest, xbxrx, Dwight Twilley, The Archies, Tommy James and the Shondells, bubblegum in general, Ennio Morricone, Go-Betweens, Lightning Bolt, the KLF, James 'Blood' Ulmer, the Carter Family, Goldenhorse, Arthur Russell, Daft Punk, the Gordons, the Chiffons, Huggy Bear
Movies:
Gloria, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, Spinal Tap, My Fair Lady, Together, Freaky Friday (remake), Clueless, But I'm a Cheerleader, Shaft, Wayne's World 1 and 2, Dogtown and Z Boys (and any other inspiring skateboard movies), Polyester, Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Everything by John Waters really.
Television:
Shortland St, Paradise Hotel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Jem, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Button Moon, Freaks and Geeks, Seinfeld, Futurama, Simpsons, Lost, Beavis and Butt-Head Twin Peaks, Homicide, ER, Cosby Show, Ren and Stimpy, Transformers, Simple Life, Six Feet Under, Young Ones
Books:
The Member of the Wedding (my favourite book, it's perfect), FUN HOME, Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill, Love in the Time of Cholera, A Boy's Own Story, the Bell Jar, Forever, Nights at the Circus, Good Morning Midnight, Slouching Towards Bethleham, Series of Unfortunate Events books (and the Basic Eight), I Like You, GOSSIP GIRL, Raise High the Roofbeams Carpenters/Seymour, Revenge of the Lawn, Zazie in the Metro, Cities of the Red Night, the Rainbow Stories, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Black Hole, Krazy Kat, Julie Doucet comics, Day of the Locust, Hollywood Babylon, Mog and Bunny, Shock Value by John Waters, Millennium People, Fake anonymous teen diarys by Beatrice Sparks (Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal, It Happened to Nancy) and REAL teen diaries by REAL teens from AGGS in 1986 - life changing!
