flowers, pitchforks and getting my hands dirty (I'm lucky enough to have a garden); vintage pinups (Bettie Page, Petty Girls...), burlesque, good food and cooking for lots of friends, books, (buying, owning, reading, rereading), dancing and making dances, bellydancing, high heels, bourbon and martinis
Oh, the usual: The Cure, depeche mode, The Smiths, Joy Division, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, The Bravery, Dresden Dolls, PJ Harvey, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Souixie and the Banshees, The Doors, The Beatles, Interpol, Janis Joplin, Philip Glass, Schoenberg, Schnittke, Webern, John Cage, Cheb Mami, classical Egyptian and Turkish music, music from the Medieval and Renaissance periods, the Fado (Amalia Rodrigues, Misia), Chavela Vargas, did I mention David Bowie?, Leonard Cohen, and the Psychedelic Furs...
Hmmm...Since I'm the last person to see anything, this is gonna be a short list: Wild at Heart, Donnie Darko, Secretary, Pretty in Pink, 2046, Hero, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2, Ghostbusters, Lost Boys, Blue Velvet, Garden State, I heart Huckabees, Edward Scissorhands, Kung Fu Hustle...
Television rots your brain...I only watch educational programs on PBS (Wait...what happened on Desperate Housewives?!!)
Books are like men- so many, so little time... Seriously...I love reading so here's a start: Camus (The Plague, The Stranger), Jose Saramago (Blindness), just about anything by Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Don Delillo, Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red, Snow), Dorothy Parker, Homer (The Illiad, The Odyssey), and this is all just a little bit...