music, living life like a rock star, playing dress up, dancing in my kitchen, dancing barefoot, dancing to no music, dancing. changing the world, eating, cooking, singing (badly) at the top of my lungs, optimist club, comprehensive sex education, talking politics, reading, making jewelry, reproductive justice, border justice, justice, drinking vodka, winter hibernation, not playing by the rules, seeing live music, talking late into the night, drinking tecate...
betty davis
any fantastic local band, Neko Case, Son Volt, Pieta Brown, Mates of State, Elliott Smith, Outkast, Calexico, any classic soul, Iggy Pop, Ramones, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Al Green, Al Perry, Richard Buckner, The Kinks, M. Ward, The New Pornagraphers, Belle and Sebastian, Kanye, Quasi, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, Bob Marley, Black Heart Procession, Le Tigre, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cat Power, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Walbank, Neil Young, Portishead, White Stripes, The Fiery Furnaces, Eric Clapton, Cream, The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Jones, The Clash, The Pixies, The Cure, Hank Williams, Radiohead, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Cibo Matto, The Killers, Dar Williams, Wilco, Muddy Waters, Mates of State, Loveland, Nico, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, blonde redhead, ...
The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Almost Famous, I heart Huckabees, City of God, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Wayne's World
On the Road, Soul on Ice, most Beat prose, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rule of the Bone, She's Come Undone, Catcher in the Rye, The Basketball Diaries, 1984, White Teeth, Howl, Johnny Got His Gun, Stranger in a Strange Land, biographies about interesting people, The World According to Garp, anything by Haruki Murakami...
For those about to rock, I salute you.