+ Spending quality time with friends and family
+ drinking fair trade coffee, and yerba matte in excess
+ pilates, yoga, and meditation
+ dancing in my bedroom, my kitchen, in other people's livingrooms, at shows, at clubs, on go-go boxes... pretty much everywhere
+ going to art shows and indie films and loud rock shows
+ costume design, designing and constructing retro inspired dresses and purses
+ applique, and embellishment
+ acting, creative writing, music
+ engaging in good conversation
+ herbal medicine
+ 3rd wave feminism
+ cooking yummy healthy eats
+ silent film
+ kitchy 50's housewares and dishes
+ really good chocolate
+ femininity as performance art, and all things fabulous. ///
I want a kitty.
Josie Cotton, Erase errata, Girlschool, sleater-kinney, gang of four, Nikki and the Corvettes, Catholic Girls, cat power, 7 year bitch, the lunachicks, sonic youth, the aislers set, pink martini, les terribles, saturday looks good to me, les savy fav, the nuns, legal weapon, pj harvey, the clash, siouxsie and the banshees, the television personalities, au pairs, the capricorns, the slumber party, delta 5, the lambrettas, stereo total, the pixies, sarah vaughn, patsy cline, babes in toyland, L7, X, the slits, the raincoats, liliput, the gossip, le tigre, belle and sebastian, lois, the softies, blondie, bikini kill, the gits, the runaways etc...
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, Pandoras Box, Heavenly Creatures, The English Patient, The Last Unicorn, The Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie, Cry Baby, The Dark Crystal, Sunset Blvd, Henry and June... etc.
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Simpsons, PBS, Lost, The Young Ones, Monty Python, The L Word, Fashion File, Martha Stewart Living, Histories Mysteries with Leonard Nimoy.
-Passionate poetry
-highly creative novels
-sewing and craft books
-feminist lit and queer theory
some examples: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, House of Leaves, Renesance and other poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and my new Vintage Purse Pattern book.
These people aren't heroes as much as I just find positive inspiration from their lives and work:
Sarah Bernhardt
Louise Brooks
Alla Naziomova
Edith Head
Betsey Johnson
bell hooks