art & design, music, reading, speaking crappy spanish and rusty french, bike riding, swimming in warm bodies of water, yoga, food -- talking about it, cooking it, and eating it -- especially the curious and extreme, porch gardening, flowers - especially exotic and/or old lady flowers, bromeliads, terrariums, moondog, brian eno, zelia barbosa, sun ra, blackboard jungle dub, susan cadogan, nina simone, the stranglers, parliament, the eternals, billy stewart, roman polanski, lady from shanghai, rockers, children of men, larry david, richard pryor, the sopranos, lost, the mighty boosh, henry james, haruki murakami, ralph ellison, brothers karamazov, rudy gernreich, claire mccardell, elsa schiaparelli, madeleine vionnet, buckminster fuller, photostyling and trend forecasting (getting paid), tutoring esl, digging thru piles of old and unusual things, accessories, uniforms, traveling, occasionally not talking for ten days, dancing, learning new things, deejaying, journalism, the intersection of fashion, gender, identity, and culture, haitian women in tube tops.