Performing, as in acting, singing, and playing violin. I'm all about entertaining, and writing. But I don't sit in my room in the dark and write sappy poems about how depressing my life is. I write plays and essays about how fabulous my friends and I are. One day my life story will put my sister's children through college, but she has to have children first.
Todd Rundgren. And Betty White. Then I could die happy.
Steely Dan, David Bowie (Bowie is God), Todd Rundgren (Todd is Godd), BeeGees, Madonna, Boston, Van Davis, Hall and Oates, Culture Club, Gil Scott-Heron, Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald, Barry Manilow, The Carpenters, John Travolta, Blondie, ELO, Michael Jackson (the early years), Queen, David Cassidy, The Spinners, John Mellencamp, Sheila E., Charlie Daniels Band, Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Human League, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, Classics IV, Counting Crows, Jon Mayer, Polyphonic Spree, Steve Miller Band, 5th Dimension, Bread, The Doors, Eric Burden and War, Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse, The Moonshiners, Steve and Eydie, Gary Wright, Player, Wayne Krantz, Lily Allen, Rupert Holmes, Jethro Tull, Rod Stewart (early Rod Stewart, none of this great american shit), Robert Palmer, Ian Gomm, Depeche Mode, Kenny LogginsI am one of those people who seriously believes that Bowie is God.
Everything by my two favorite Johns: Waters and Travolta. Also Airplane!, Party Girl, The Daytrippers, La Bamba, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Mixed Nuts, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Waiting for Guffman, Jeffrey, Jackie's Back!, The Virgin Suicides, Mona Lisa Smile, The Aristocrats (If you didn't enjoy this movie, you're a pussy :), Brokeback Mountain, The Thorn Birds, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You for Smoking, Slums of Beverly Hills
Quality programming died about ten years ago, so I prefer the classics: Golden Girls, Soap, Welcome Back Kotter, Taxi, Strangers with Candy, That 70's Show, Sex and the City, Oz, Law and Order (but only the Jerry Orback episodes, I can't watch the new ones without him), The Nanny, Match Game, Designing Women, Mama's Family, Maude, Mary Tyler Moore Yacht Rock
All of George Carlin's books, No Shirt No Shoes No Problem! by Jeff Foxworthy, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Buddy Babylon by Scott Thompson, Reelin' in the Years: The Unauthorized Biography of Steely Dan by Brian Sweet, I Fatty, The Thorn Birds. My dad wrote a book in 1979, and what the hell, I'll mention it here: The History of the Tarrytowns by Jeff Canning and Wally Buxton. I've never actually read it, but I own an autographed copy.
My Mom, Fagen and Becker, Bowie (my personal God), and Boy George (my idol since high school)