Sing-a-longs, Drawing, Yoga, Spanish, doing math problems in my head, playing dress up, Organizing, Making lists, Trying to change you're mind, thinking, feeling, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting finding out the secrets to the universe, telling the TRUTH even when you don't like it! Daring to do all the things I speak against and learning to love them.
Me as a teenager, my dog on wheels, Lucinda Williams or anyone half as hardcore, gender benders, people who like to think really hard about things, inanimate objects that have myspace profiles, Amelia Earhart, Geminis and people that are conceited.
My morning jacket, Broken Social Scene, Tom Petty, Camera Obscura, Feist, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Bill Withers, Nanci Griffith, Alison Krauss, Janis Ian, Tracy + the Plastics, Chicks on Speed, Erin Mckeown, Kia, Nellie McKay, Regina Specktor, Ani DiFranco, Neko Case, MIA, REM, The Nields, Suzanne Vega, Badly Drawn Boy, The Carter Family, Talking Heads, Sleater-Kinney, Patty Griffin, Lucinda Willams, Sun Volt, Wilco, The Postal Service, Tracy Chapman, Stereolab, Gillian Welch, Dar Williams, Uncle Tupelo, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Indigo Girls, Cowboy Junkies, Emmy Lou Harris, Belle & Sebastian, Air, Le Tigre, Rufus Wainwright, Joni Mitchell, Cat Power, Morcheeba, Tricky, Death Cab for Cutie, Sun Kil Moon, Iron and Wine, The Shins, The Cure, The Pixies, Bratmobile, Bjork, Patti Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, Eliza Gilkyson, Steve and Stacy Earle and AMY RAY. etc...
Desperate Living, Alice doesn't live here anymore, The Wizard of OZ, Far from Heaven, About Schmidt, Being John Malkovich, Swimming Pool, American Beauty, Run Lola Run, My Blue Heaven, Big, Dirty Dancing, Kill Bill, In the Company of Men, The House of Yes, The Last Supper, Bubble, Sex, lies and videotape, Pleasentville, Corn Dog Man, The Royal Tennenbaums, Best in Show, Waitng for Guffman, The Jerk, Ferris Buler's Day Off, Pleasantville, Henry and June, Back to the Future, Clueless, Earth Girls are Easy, Amelie, Pulp Fiction, Mary Poppins, Dumbo, The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, But I'm a Cheerleader, Go Fish, Series Seven, Me and You and Everyone we Know, Lovely and Amazing, Funny ha ha, Mi via en rose, The Squid and the Whale, The Great New Wonderful, anything with Catherine Keener.
Ellen, Sienfeld, Sesame Street, The Cosby Show, Strangers with Candy, The Critic, King of the Hill, Queer Eye, Oprah, Cooking Shows, Will and Grace, The love connection, The Price is Right, Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood, Sessions at West 54th.
Anais Nin, Jeanette Winterson, Kahlil Gibran, the Ellen Books!
Jesus and myself, ARTISTS: (since they don't ask) Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt, Cindy Sherman, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Alan Feltus, Nan Goldin, Bill Owens, Egon Schiele, Hellen Van Meene, Degas, Alice Neel, Chuck Close