I follow haute couture. "I am a magazine reader!" I'm not a visual artist, but l like visual art: Balthus, Modigliani, Christian Schad (Deutchland's New Objectivity), Ubaldo Oppi, Boccioni, Gino Severini, Vanessa Beecroft, Larry Clark, August Sander.... Big into violent, dog eat dog sports like boxing, but I'd never get in the ring myself because I am painfully vain. I'm good with languages. And I go abroad frequently, because there's family out there.
No one who thinks it clever to pepper their language with the term "post-modernist", or the even worse, "po-mo", in an effort to seem more sophisticated. I don't go around saying I'm neo-classical, baby.
Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy, Jeanette, Anita Lane, Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Tim Hardin, Blonde Redhead, Nico, Secret Machines, Blur, The Gossip, Broken Social Scene, Animal Collective, Jim Noir, Shoplifting, Chemical Bros, Gorillaz, Soledad Bravo, Silvio Rodriguez, Mala Rodriguez, Rapture, Aesop Rock, Dizzee Rascal, Röyksopp, Lee Hazelwood + Nancy Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Benjamin Britten, John Cale, Elastica, Wilderness, Quasimoto, Miss Kitten, Future Sound of London, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Hall & Oates, Tom Tom Club,Fiery Furnaces, Air, Sebastian Tellier, Cocorosie, Giorgio Moroder, Man Man, Crowded House, big black sonorous voices like those of Gwen MCrae, Donna Summer, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Emotions, Old Tina Turner... Pulp, John Dowland, Ornella Vanoni, Fabrizio De Andre, Dalla, Tenco, Lucio Battisti, Silvio Rodriguez, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, and the Mary Jane Girls, who blew my mind (69 times)...Most recently, Italo Disco, Roxy Music
L'Atalante, Once Upon a time in America..., The Last Days of Disco, Kansas City, Days of Heaven, Betty Blue, Landscape in the Mist, Gloria (the Rowlands/Cassavetes one), Nostalghia, Juliet of the Spirits, Le Samourai, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Russian Arc, Jude, Battle Royale, Eight and a Half, Caravaggio, Palindromes, Mullholland Drive, Dancemaker, Fanny and Alexander, Rain, Moloch, Gimme Shelter, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, Red Desert, Don't Look Now, Doctor Zhivago, Sugar Cookies, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, ... Aliens
Deadwood, Arrested Development, Squidbillies, Aqua Teen, Metalocalypse, Ali G, Trading Spouses, and I used to like Top Model, but it's just really awful now. Not even funny-awful.
"She's funny, " the top-heavy bombshell is quoted as telling the mag. "Last time I met her we were in a restaurant together. She slammed the menu down and screamed, 'I hate reading! Someone tell me what's on the menu!'"Michael Ondaatche's 'Collected Works of Billy the Kid', Francois Mauriac's 'Therese Desqueyroux', 'Embers' by Sandor Marai, Nabokov's 'Ada' and 'Lolita', 'Virginie' by John Hawkes, 'A Maggot' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' by John Fowles, 'Fay', by Larry Brown, 'The Crimson Petal and the White', Jean Cocteau's 'Les Enfants Terribles', 'One Hundred Years of Solitude ', 'Madeleine is Sleeping' by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, and really, just about anything written by Mary Gaitskill, but especially her 'Veronica'
Traci Lords, for her tenacity.