edward albee, ellen degeneres, female masculinity, girlyman, indigo girls, ira glass, janeane garofalo, john cameron mitchell, judith halberstam, lesbian culture, lily tomlin, m. night shyamalan, macgyver, my so called life, national public radio, pop culture, queer theory, Sarah Silverman, spinning, sushi, theatre, this american life, tina fey, william goldman, womens studies
Creative people, hot lesbians, people who want to pay me a lot of money for doing very little.
I'm a cliche, but Indigo Girls...also The White Stripes, Ani Difranco, Tegan and Sara, Dar Williams, Girlyman, Hole,(Is it lame to admit I love Nirvana more now than I did when I was supposed to...no lamer than admitting I was actually listening to Tiffany and Debbie Gibson at the time) Bob Dylan, The Gits, Eliza Gilkison, Liz Phair, Neko Case, Pink, Patty Griffin, Patti Smith Lucinda Williams, Dolly Parton, The Faint, Tom Waits, Madonna, The Nields, and you know what? Fuck it, I listen to Lindsay Lohan. You got something to say about that? Didn't think so.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Little Miss Sunshine, Tootsie, Signs, Smoke Signals, Peggy Sue Got Married, 9 to 5, Adam's Rib, All of Me, By Hook or By Crook, all Woody Allen all the time, High Art, Kissing Jessica Stein (I've been told I *am* Jessica Stein, but then what neurotic, Jewish,"Type A" femme lesbian hasn't been told that?)
Gilmore Girls (!!!!), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Six Feet Under
The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle, Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey (Somethingorother) Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw, Second Nature by Alice Hoffman, Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger, Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, Sylvia Plath's journals (NOT her poetry)...writers: Dan Savage, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Lorrie Moore, Nabokov, Judith Halberstam, Vivian Gornick, Jane Delynn, Augusten Burroughs...OH! And all of a sudden I think I love Virginia Woolf.
Amy Ray (You can fuck your hero, right?)