Music, art, painting, writing, dancing all hot and sweaty and free, the mind, those people that teeter between brilliance and madness, furry creatures, Edie Sedgwick, The Factory, Edie Sedgwick, 60's pop culture, Edie Sedgwick... Hunter S. Thompson, thanatology, the Portuguese language, poetry, cocktail "kulture", tiki, tabloid magazines, split second views inside people's homes when you're driving past and the shades are back, and the lights are on, and it's dark out.
All lovers of music and art and brilliant minds and history and future and sharp wit and slow tempers and those who live and not just exist. You know what I mean? People to LAUGH with. The silly. The ridiculous. The fun. The solemn and reverent - And the totally IRreverent. Those who are kind. People to inspire and motive me and challenge me. People who will seek the same of me.
Cocteau Twins, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Sundays, The Kills, Red House Painters, Tindersticks, Massive Attack, Tricky, My Bloody Valentine, Innocense Mission, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Antony, Jeremy Enigk, Broken Social Scene, Devics, Mazzy Star, Jane's Addiction, The Pixies, The Primitives, The Cramps, The Kinks, The Nervous Return (now defunct), Velvet Underground, Cab Calloway, Roy Orbison, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Astrud Gilberto, Bossa Nova, Olivia Newton-John, Serge Gainsberg, "Lounge", Exotica, swing, Peaches, Blonde Redhead, PJ Harvey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hedwig soundtrack, Marjorie Fair (Parlour), The Antarcticans, filmschool, many unsigned, local and not-so-local amazing music makers... the whole list goes on! and of course, my little band...honeybreath!
Cabaret, Natural Born Killers, Raising Arizona, Anchorman, Hedwig, Superbad, The Aristocrats, 24 Hour Party People, Grease, Saw, Frailty, Breakfast Club, Sexy Beast, Whitnail and I, My Fair Lady, Fear and Loathing in L.V. , Outer and Inner Space, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Dogs in Space, Ciao! Manhattan, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Horror films in general, Leonard Cohen tribute - I'm Your Man, Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic, Denis Leary's No Cure for Cancer, Any clip of Mitch Hedberg doing stand up, old movies - "classics", The Thin Man movies, It Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story, Double Indemnity, so many more...
America's Next Top Model (total junkie for it), Charlie's Angels (my childhood heroines), Arrested Developement, Weeds, Dexter, old Bugs and Daffy cartoons, Blackadder, the Simpsons, Family Guy; Conan O'Brien when I'm awake for it; Showbiz India on Saturday mornings, Infomercials, PBS documentries that make me feel like I've got cable!
Lots of Poetry anthologies, lots of books about the "Warhol Sixties" especially anything that involves Edie, Books about the supernatural, books on old Hollywood, death, sociology, psychology, non-fiction, art, fashion, novelty, the dictionary, theasaurus, photography books... Although, truth is, I don't read much besides the weekly tabloids. But above all - Edie, An American Biography has been my treasure since I was 14.