dramaturgy, literature, film, dance, avant-garde performance, Yiddish theatre and folklore, food writing, reproductive rights, good scotch, better wine, cooking, dressing up my cats, law and order marathons, yoga, belly dance and all the fun costumes that come with, Coney Island,cultivating my status as Crazy Aunt Carrie to my honorary niece Vesta, one righteous baby.
I'd like to meet:
Marjane Satrapi, Dorothy Parker, Joss Whedon, Ira Glass, Margaret Cho, Judy Chicago, Orlan, Artaud, Anias Nin, and a generous bartender. I'd like to smoke a whole pack with Donna Tartt, fix dinner for Julie Taymor, have Richard Foreman read me a bedtime story, and polish off a bottle of wine with Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk.
Music:
Decemberists, Nina Simone, Mike Doughty, the golden age of college radio, klezmer klezmer klezmer
oh, and The Gossip is like audio crack for me these days
Movies:
Titus, Harold and Maude, The Reckoning, Garden State (except where the end Hollywooded out), Everything Is Illuminated (a most premium film), and more than I can list here
Television:
Buffy, Firefly, Law and Order (SVU- wa-hoo to creepy sex crimes), Project Runway, The Tudors, Scrubs, Twin Peaks, Veronica Mars, Weeds, the many netflixed TV DVDs of Rome and Oz
Which Buffy Girl Are You? Find out @ She's Crafty
Books:
The Secret History, Geek Love, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (I could care less that he's a hoax), Persepolis, all of Nigella Lawson's cookbooks, assloads of plays I won't list; Sarah Waters proves that lesbians make Victoriana interesting
Heroes:
Xena, Warrior Princess,
Nigella Lawson,
Alice Waters-- In that order
