Writing (and then dancing when its done!), conversation, dancing, drinking, live concerts (where I can also dance!), and reading (when I'm worn out from all the dancing!).
Folks! Fun folks and funny folks, honest folks, interesting folks...Real folks!....
Currently in my CD player (and spread across my computer, in my walkman, and/or stacked by the radio next to my bathtub):Bjork, Cocteau Twins, P.I.L, Liz Phair, Prince, Vanity 6, Dire Straits, Mark Farina, Assorted House Music, Komeda, Roxy Music, Missy Elliot, Radiohead, Tool, Nick Holder, Incubus, Lit, Usher, Isley Brothers, Barry White, Peaches, Kraftwerk, The Time, PJ Harvey, Larry Levan, Janet Jackson, Cassius, Faith No More, and Grace Jones (among others...)
Alfred Hitchcock's entire oeuvre (especially Marnie, The Birds, Lifeboat, and Rebecca), The Ice Storm, Lord of the Rings, Chameleon Street, King of Comedy, Paris is Burning, The Ice Storm, Jazz (Ken Burns documentary), Crumb, Amelie, Ma Vie En Rose, Damage, The Wizard of Oz, Crash, Raise the Red Lantern, To Sleep With Anger, The Hulk, My Best Friend's Wedding, Beloved, and Besieged (among others...)
Samurai Jack, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, The Restaurant, Good Times, Behind the Music, Biography, Inside the Actor's Studio, (among others....)
Authors: James Baldwin, Toni Morrisson, Camille Paglia, Tennessee Williams, Sharon Olds, Audre Lorde, Gary Larson, Li-Young Li, William Faulkner, Flannery O'connor, Susan Sontag, and Harold Bloom...... Books: Giovanni's Room, Sula, Death of Rhythm and Blues, Sexual Personnae, The Colored Museum, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Dorothy Parker Reader, Meridian, The Gold Cell (Sharon Olds), Queer, Junkie, The Celluloid Closet, Geek Love, Brother to Brother, Song of Solomon, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, Stories from The Nerve Bible, Cat's Eye, Faggots, The Dark Side of Genius: Life of Alfred Hitchcock, and The Lenny Bruce Story (among others....)
James Baldwin, Prince, My High School French teacher, Ang Lee, and my parents.