Music and live music, indie rock, electroclash and shoegaze, Philadelphia, reading and writing, film (especially Nicole Kidman's amazing body of work), literature (especially the novels and various writings of Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood), intellectually stimulating conversation over coffee, dining out with close friends, watching my soap, designer fragrances, whiskey sours, wine, the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, photography, the photography of Diane Arbus, theatre and acting, dancing while styling my hair
Cool, open-minded, sardonic individuals who enjoy intellectually stimulating conversation and are passionate about music; someone to get a cup of coffee or see a film with in the cesspool that is State College, Pennsylvania; fellow indie rock lovers to get whiskey sours with at low-key, undiscovered bars on my frequent trips to Philly. Consummate pukes and show-offs, obnoxious players, and immature juveniles turn me off.
Ryan Adams, Auf der Maur, Bang Lime, Beck, Bjork, The Blow, Sarah Brightman, Broadcast, Broken Social Scene, Camera Obscura, Neko Case, Cavalier King, Cher, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Kelly Clarkson, Patsy Cline, Coldplay, Jason Collett, Controller.Controller, The Decemberists, Destroyer, Celine Dion, Dr. Dog, Minnie Driver, Hilary Duff, The Faint, Marianne Faithfull, Feist, Fergie, The Fiery Furnaces, A Fine Frenzy, Dave Fischoff, The Fitness, Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Go! Team, Gossip, Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton, Handsome Furs, Darren Hayes, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paris Hilton, The Hold Steady, Hole, Hot Chip, Hot Hot Heat, Whitney Houston, Natalie Imbruglia, Keren Ann, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Koufax, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, The Libertines, Lindsay Lohan, The Long Blondes, Jennifer Lopez, Courtney Love, The Lovely Feathers, Loretta Lynn, The M's, Madonna, Magneta Lane, Men Women and Children, Metric, M.I.A., Mika, Rhett Miller, Liza Minnelli, Kylie Minogue, Mirah, Alanis Morissette, My Morning Jacket, Leona Naess, The National, Ne-Yo, The New Pornographers, Laura Nyro, Of Montreal, OK Go, Yoko Ono, Anna Oxygen, Dolly Parton, Michael Penn, Liz Phair, The Postmarks, Lisa Marie Presley, The Rapture, The Raveonettes, Rihanna, Robbers on High Street, Rogue Wave, Sahara Hotnights, Savage Garden, Scissor Sisters, Shiny Toy Guns, Shout Out Louds, Ashlee Simpson, Nancy Sinatra, Sing-Sing, Britney Spears, Spoon, Stars, Sufjan Stevens, Barbra Streisand, Sun Kil Moon, Tapes 'n Tapes, VHS or Beta, Vitamin C, The Von Bondies, Rufus Wainwright, Dionne Warwick, Robbie Williams, Wolf Parade, Rachael Yamagata
Alien, All About My Mother, American Beauty, As Good as It Gets, The Aviator, Babel, Batman Begins, Beloved, Bewitched, Birth, Birthday Girl, The Blair Witch Project, Bobby, The Bodyguard, Bounce, Boys Don't Cry, Cecil B. Demented, The Cell, The Center of the World, Chicago, Closer, Clue, Cold Mountain, Crash, Cruel Intentions, Dancer in the Dark, Dark Water, Deep Blue Sea, Dogville, Don't Move, Elephant, Elizabeth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evita, Eyes Wide Shut, Factory Girl, Femme Fatale, The First Wives Club, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, The Gift, Gigli, Halloween H20, Hanging Up, Hard Candy, High Tension, The Hours, House of Sand and Fog, House on Haunted Hill, The Human Stain, In the Cut, In the Land of Women, Inland Empire, The Interpreter, The Invasion, Jurassic Park, Kill Bill (Vols. 1 and 2), King Kong, Little Children, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Magnolia, Marie Antoinette, Mary Reilly, Match Point, Mean Girls, Meet Joe Black, Million Dollar Baby, Miss Julie, Mona Lisa Smile, Monster, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Dr., Mysterious Skin, Notes on a Scandal, November, The Others, The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Phantom of the Opera, Pieces of April, Pride and Prejudice, Proof, Psycho, The Queen, Quills, Reign over Me, Rent, Requiem for a Dream, Running with Scissors, Shakespeare in Love, Shallow Hal, Showgirls, Shortbus, Simply Irresistible, Sin City, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Something's Gotta Give, Star Wars, The Sweetest Thing, Swept Away, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tarnation, Timecode, Transamerica, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, 21 Grams, An Unfinished Life, Vanilla Sky, Velvet Goldmine, The Village, Volver, We Don't Live Here Anymore, The Wizard of Oz, Wolf Creek
Ally McBeal, America's Next Top Model, Arrested Development, Brothers and Sisters, Damages, Dawson's Creek, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy, The Golden Girls, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Men in Trees, Nip/Tuck, One Life to Live, Queer as Folk, The Riches, The Simple Life, The Simpsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Top Chef, The Young and the Restless, The X-Files
Dorothy Allison: Bastard out of Carolina
Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace; The Blind Assassin; Lady Oracle; The Robber Bride
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
J. G. Ballard: Crash
Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors
Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World; The Hours
Bret Easton Ellis: The Rules of Attraction
Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier
Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain
Anne Heche: Call Me Crazy
Nicole Krauss: The History of Love
Susanna Moore: In the Cut
Joyce Carol Oates: Blonde
Tom Perrotta: Little Children
Pauline Reage: Story of O
Jacqueline Susann: Valley of the Dolls
Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room; Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; The Waves