Solving problems: Thesis, antithesis, synthesis, using this to overcome adversity (my favorite pastime!), loving people, helping people, caring for people; things I’m wary of: people who aren’t about that, and I’m constantly on the lookout for them, freshly mowed lawns with stripes, strength, respect, independence, freedom (which basically means another person or entity isn't controlling you), a sense of humor, summer dreams, corporate takeover, fun, words, gathering information and sharing it, finding something special in an unexpected place, I'm serious about dental floss, energy, happy women, irony, science, fecal embryos, skissor wizard, scientific thinking, scientific knowledge, finding answers to the bad things to try and save the good things, double guns, fire, the number 9, magic, creativity, screaming butter, creative power, scary men, hard men, beautiful men, crazy men, sweet men, creative freedom, wild mind, experimentation, experiencing, experience, exploration, Capoeira, writing, singing, acting, pool(the game), swimming, adventuredancing!
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Making Babies, Kate Bush, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, The Residents, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nina Simone, Fugazi, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Billy Holiday (Lady sings the blues!), Holly GoLightly, Low, Sleater Kinney, Nina Hagen (that crazy bitch), The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Arvo Part, Cat Power, John Cage, Godspeed, The Mars Volta, Tricky, Blonde Redhead, Iggy and the Stooges, Pixies, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, Los Maruaders, The Chemical Brothers, DJ Shadow, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Slint, The Dead Milkmen, Neutral Milk Hotel, White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Rasputina, Joy Division, The Human Aftertaste, Lords of Acid, The Horrorpops, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Air, Nina Nastasia, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Cure, The Dead Kennedys, Television, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Devo, Leonard Cohen, The Beatles, The Beastie Boys, Glenn Branca, Indigo Girls, T-Rex, Butthole Surfers, Motorhead, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, Blur, Belle & Sebastian, Queensryche, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Concrete Blonde, Tiger Army, John Cage, Horrorpops, John Digweed, TV on the Radio, Ephraim Zenh; oh and by the way, I selected a lot of this music for the Des Moines Public Library to give it some culture bitches!
The little girl who lives down the lane, Badlands, Zabriskie Point, Suburbia (the Penelope Spheeris film), Blade Runner, The Last Unicorn, Little Foxes, The Excorcist, The Shining, Waterbabies, The films of Richard Kern, the films of Sadie Benning, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Gremlins, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Thelma and Louise, The Hunger, The Line, the Cross, and the Curve by Kate Bush, True Romance, The Last House on the Left, Orlando, The City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Le Femme Nikita, Resident Evil 1 & 2 because of Milla fucking Jovovich, The Bicycle Thief (really, I love this movie), The Chumscrubber, Strange Days, The Professional, Midnight Cowboy, Young Frankenstein, True Stories, Running on Empty, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, City of God, Crumb, Gummo, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Cane Toads, Azumi, Basquiat, Pollock, Run Lola Run, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Heathers, The Brood, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, eXistenZ, A History of Violence, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., The Cement Garden, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dancing at the Blue Iguana, The Kill Bills, Female Trouble, Cry-Baby, Pecker, Cecil B. DeMented, Altered States, Chinatown, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Klute, Groove, Scratch, Pretty in Pink, Kids, Requiem for a Dream, Lord of the Rings (all of them), Heavenly Creatures, Dead Alive, Evil Dead II, Watership Down, Chinatown, Syd & Nancy, Acne, Hellraiser, The Princess Bride, Conan the Barbarian, The Secretary, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Ode to Billy Joe, Vision Quest, Down by Law, Dead Man, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Short Cuts, The Player, Cry Freedom, Sophie’s Choice, Norma Rae, I Shot Andy Warhol, Wings of Desire, Last Tango in Paris, The Hunger, Dig!
Mazes & Monsters, Aeon Flux, The Young Ones, Twin Peaks, Dr. Who, Red Dwarf – I don’t really watch TV, only on a rare occasion, which is rarely
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Catcher in the Rye, Jane Eyre, A Girl Named Sooner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Bridge to Terabithia, The Velveteen Rabbit, Masquerade by Kit Williams, Women Who Run With the Wolves, The Metamorphosis, The Little Prince, Herland, Tropic of Cancer, Collages, Under Glass Bell, Anais Nin a BiographyConversations With Anais Nin (Literary Conversations Series), Anais Nin Herself: Read Selections from Her Diaries, 1931-34,Winter Of Artifice, The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934),Delta of Venus,House Of Incest, Spy In House Of Love: V4 In Nin'S Continuous Novel,A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anais Nin, Ladders To Fire: V1 In Nin'S Continuous Novel, The Radical Papers by Dimitrios Roussopoulos, The Secret Garden, Independent People, Sula, Coraline, Wilderness Tips, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, On the Road, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Manufacturing Consent, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream, Junkie, Howl, 1984, The Phantom Tollbooth, Gravity’s Rainbow, Finnegans Wake, Dancing on My Grave: an autobiography, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, Eros in Hell: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema, The Name of the Rose, Neuromancer; I, Shithead
Mom, Dad, Sister, Grandparents, Aunt, Aunt, Cousins, Cat, Friends, Noam Chomsky, Frida Kahlo, Jodie Foster, Natalie Portman, Milla Jovovich, Juliet Lewis, Carol Channing, Esther Williams, Anais Nin (Halloween costume this year! punk rock style, of course), Henry Miller (you guessed it), Johnny Rotten ("Anger is an energy!"), Peter Murphy, David Bowie, people with 5 heads, Kate Bush, Sonic Youth, David Cronenburg, David Lynch, Siouxsie Sioux