Art!
I'd like to have a beer with the two Marys (Magdelene and Jesus's mum) someday--maybe in another life. I'd like to discuss parenting strategies, you know get tips on how to raise a Messiah and what have you.
Tori, Tori, Tori (as in Amos), The Flaming Lips, Tool, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Lorretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Ray Charles, Texas Tornados, Bjork, PJ Harvey, Ben Harper, Bad Religion, Jane Lui, Led Zeppelin, A Perfect Circle, Mos Def, Jurassic Five, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Alice n' Chains, Billie Holiday, Bright Eyes, Portishead, etc.
The lost Highway, Muholland Drive, Singin' in the Rain, Dangerous Liasons, Boondock Saints, Predator, Tremors, Boys don't cry, He-Man, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (1&2)--because Terrantino is such a crazy little feminist, and Dogville.
Don't watch it, but I love a good documentary. And when the opportunity arises I enjoy the occasional Will and Grace episode and yes even Friends from time to time.
If not Winter;Fragments of Sappho--Anne Carson's translation. This Sex Which Is Not One--Luce Irigaray, Love and Beloved--Toni Morrison, Cats Cradle--Kurt Vonnegut, The Iceman Cometh--Eugene O'Neill, A Room of One's Own--Virginia Woolf, Sexual Selections--Marlene Zuks, Johnny Panic and The Bible of Dreams-- Sylvia Plath, Tales of Neveryon--Samuel R. Delany, My Antonia--Willa Cather, The Yellow Wallpaper--Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Dream of an Hour--Kate Chopin, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross--John M. Allegro, Nothing in this book is true but it is exactly the way things are---?, Staying Fat for Sarah Burns--Chris Krutcher, and last but not least mine and my daughters favorite, Skippy Jon Jones-- Judy Schachner.
Tori Amos for gracefully defining femininity for me after Irigaray mucked it all up, Polly Jean Harvey for her feminine angst, Luce Irigaray for her gentle, soothing, speech that moves like tides across the page, Toni Morrison for her breathtaking prose, Sappho and Anne Carson. Sappho for daring to sing so many years ago and Anne Carson for making it possible for everyone to hear her song. Anne Carson again just for being a genius, my friend Michael Morrow for living so outside of his box he actually lost the damn thing, Alex Grey and the members of Tool for challenging my level of consciousness, John Malkovich for being so damn sexy, Kurt Vonnegut for having such a tragic sense of humor, Margaret Cho for helping us laugh at our tragedies without trivializing them, Stanley Kubrik and David Lynch for having the courage to explore the darker regions of the human psyche and finding beauty even "there"... and even for challenging my attention span from time to time, Quentin Terrantino for writing such lovely characters and always making such pertinent social and critical commentary, Johnny Cash for loving the whole world and holding his space for us all as "The Man in Black", my mother for doing what needs to be done, the rest of my family for somehow keeping it together despite the insanity, and last but not least my baby for just seeing the Art in Living and sharing it with me.