my loved ones; food; music; writing; reading; film; photography; drawing; kids; animals; resistance; environment; science; politics; activism; organics; chocolate; comics; comedy; horror; zines; mixtapes; mix CDs; sex; anarchism; NCOR; camping; rural areas; cities; D.I.Y.; mythical creatures; burlesque; b&d; D/s; dreams; learning; playing music; sleeping; riding bikes; swimming; gardening; dirt; science; history; psychology; politics; manual labor; homoeroticism; body modification; riding trains; walking barefoot in cool grass; bmx; skateboarding; motocross; snowboarding
lots of different people and other animals
old rock n roll, rock n roll, punk, folk, crust, oi!, metal, hardcore, folk punk, indie, indie rock, industrial, ebm, rap, hip hop, blues, alt country, old-school country, classical, ska punk, ska, etc...
Night of the Living Dead; Brokeback Mountain; V For Vendetta; Dracula; Silence of the Lambs; Taxi Driver; A Clockwork Orange; Shaun Of The Dead; You Don't Know Dick; Southern Comfort; Pan's Labyrinth; Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb; The Deer Hunter; Through the Skin: A Film about Love, Lithium, and Gym Teachers; Full Metal Jacket; But I'm A Cheerleader; Fight Club; Dirty Filthy Love; Down In The Valley; Primal Fear; Rocky Horror Picture Show; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Breakfast On Pluto; My Summer Of Love; Velvet Goldmine; Even Cowgirls Get the Blues; 28 Days Later; Red Dragon; Gia; Foxfire; Taking Lives; The Bone Collector; By Hook Or By Crook; The Incredibly True Story Of Two Girls In Love; Tipping the Velvet; Live Nude Girls Unite!; Nosferatu: The Vampyre; Bound; Bram Stoker's Dracula; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary; Freaks; Insomnia; What's Eating Gilbert Grape?; The Sundowners; Double Indemnity; Pulp Fiction; Ed Gein; Dahmer; Suspect Zero; I Shot Andy Warhol; Clerks; Dogma; Edward Scissorhands; Beetlejuice; South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; DEBS; Party Monster; Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas; The Devil's Rejects; Suspiria; The City of the Living Dead; Zombie; Inferno; Tenebre; Blood For Dracula; Flesh For Frankenstein; Death To Smoochy; End Of The Century; Rude Boy; The Decline of Western Civilization (1st one); Punk: Attitude; The Filth and The Fury; Lifestyles of The Ramones; Suburbia (1st one); The Year Punk Broke; The Man Who Fell To Earth; American History X; The Other Sister; Hackers; Team America: World Police; Girl, Interrupted; Kill Bill: Vol 1; Kill Bill: Vol 2; No Skin Off My Ass; The Raspberry Reich; Trannyfags; Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; The Devil's Advocate; Men In Black; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; remakes of movies like Rocky Horror and Brokeback Mountain with cartoon bunnies;Etc. Etc. Etc.
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Oz, Law & Order, Queer As Folk, Absolutely Fabulous, Family Guy, South Park, SNL, Mad TV, Chappelle's Show, Blue Collar TV, Beavis & Butthead, Fuel TV, Sealab 2021, Real Sex, Henry's Film Corner, Graham Norton, Queer Duck, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Brak Show, Drawn Together, Ren & Stimpy, old-school Nickelodeon shows, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Degrassi, South Of Nowhere, etc.
Authors I like: Poppy Z. Brite, Maya Angelou, Thomas Harris, J.K. Rowling, Bart Yates, Ronald L. Donaghe, Mark Haddon, Loren Cameron, Lorrie Sprecher, Susanna Kaysen, Taste This, Dr. Suess, Lynn Breedlove, Charles Romalotti, M.E. Karr, Greg Kihn, Douglas Adams, Michelle Tea, Bett Williams, etc.
I dunno if I believe in heroes, but there are many folks I admire for various reasons.My parents. My siblings. My nephews. My grandparents. My Uncle Charles. My dogs (past and present).My friends.The various doctors who saved my life and who help me to sustain it.Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks. Harriet Tubman. Frederick Douglas. Maya Angelou. Elaine Brown.U.S. Military Veterans.Larry Kramer. ACT-UP. Radical Queer & Trans Rights Activists and Organizations.Jello Biafra.Jimi Hendrix (RIP). Kurt Cobain (RIP). Joe Strummer (RIP). Conor Oberst. Trent Reznor. Joey Ramone (RIP). Iggy Pop. David Bowie.Jamison Green. Loren Cameron.Leslie Feinberg.Taste This.Poppy Z Brite.Lily B.Drub.Jimi Hendrix (RIP).Bruce La Bruce. GB Jones. other folks who helped start homocore / queercore.Myself.various other folks...