Art (ancient, renaissance, and pop, especially). Biographies and non-fiction. World music. Hip hop, mostly old skool. Freestyle and disco music. Vincent D'Onofrio. Adam Trese. Home decorating. Tanning salons, well I'm really torn about the tanning salons though. Reading all the books. I used to love Fangoria, Tom Savini also. I really enjoyed the BBC series "The 1900 House". The New York Public Library is just awesome.
Someone who can show me how to become a bodybuilder and get beefy on a vegetarian diet. Beeeeefcaaaake! Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Pete Hamill. Willie Bobo. Brigid Berlin. The guy who does the walking tours of New York City for PBS. Anyone who likes New York history. Marilyn Monroe. Andy Warhol. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Edie Sedgwick. The girl with the pearl earring.
I always loved the disco. And I still do. Get up and boogie was my favorite song as a four year old. The first song I remember hearing is "Dance to the Music" Sly and the Family Stone. So I'm old. World, hip hop, freestyle, disco, no classic rock please, thanks. But wait. I do like AC DC and Black Sabbath. And I'm liking Heart, Steely Dan, and some other stuff. Some nice 70's r&b like Hot Chocolate. Old skool New York Hardcore (Warzone, Agnostic Front, Gorilla Biscuits, Underdog, Killing Time, Raw Deal, Murphy's Law and so on). Yeah also early 90's Abc-No-Rio style punk rock. Someone once said that if it didn't sound like it was recorded in the middle of the street I wouldn't listen to it. Also I had a thing for old old jazz/blues provided it came complete with surface noise. Vampyros Lesbos soundtrack.
Household Saints, Polish Wedding, Creepshow, Salem's Lot, Nosferatu, Shadow of the Vampire(those movies terrify me but I like them anyway), Amadeus, Blue In the Face, Basquiat, Four Rooms, Boogie Nights, Buffalo 66, Bugsy Malone, Who's That Knocking On My Door, Love At First Bite, High Anxiety. Every time the Godfather I or II is on I have to stop and watch it. Also Goodfellas, until they come to the Lufthansa heist part then it gets boring. The two worst movies I have seen lately were Factory Girl and Across the Universe.
History channel, WNET or other public broadcasting stations, Metro (the NYC community channel), HGTV, DIY. I can't help it. I need to know things.
Any NYC history book. Luc Sante. My favorite biographies- Malcolm X, Monk, Miles Davis, Ginsberg, Sarah Bernhardt, Warhol, the Roosevelts, Edie Sedgwick, Thomas Jefferson. I'd like to read a biography of Babe Ruth and maybe Satchel Page (gosh I hope I spelled his name correctly). Grande Illusions (the Savini book) I recently got around to reading The Great Gatsby. It was aiiiight.
Andy Warhol, Jenna Jamison, Marilyn Monroe, Blaze Starr, Lili St. Cyr, Sarah (not SANDRA) Bernhardt, Dorothy Parker. Maybe Edith Piaf? She seemed to survive a rough and tumble life.... One of my friends who is going through a really tough time and holds it all together with such grace and patience it is inhuman.