Live music, dancing, hiking, yoga, hollywood farmer's market, the desert, hot springs, the desert hot springs, Derby girls, public libraries, private libraries, hotel bars, npr, netflix, photography, collaging, performance art, static art, cycling, traveling, learning.
Risk-takers, rule-breakers, merry-makers, booty-shakers. Truth-seekers. Desert rats and Ex-pats. Derby Queens. Magazine Moguls. Existential Detectives willing to work for food.
KCRW, Cat Power, Seu Jorge, Persephone's Bees, The Decemberists, The Shins, The Magic Numbers, The Good the Bad & the Queen, TV on the Radio, Arcade Fire, Wilco, Jose Gonzalez, Ray Lamontagne, Brazilian Girls, Nouvelle Vague, Juana Molina, Calexico, Damien Rice, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Erykah Badu, Pink Martini, Neil Young, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Beck, Nick Drake, Van Morrison, Joan Armatrading, Fela Kuti, Antibalas, Quantic, Buena Vista Social Club, Herbie Hancock, Bob Marley, Thievery Corporation, Portishead, St Germaine, Massive Attack, Air, Zero 7, Mercury Program
Mad Hot Ballroom, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Annie Hall, Harold and Maude, Destino, City of God, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, American Beauty, Kung Fu Hustle, Moulin Rouge, Waking Life, The Graduate, Run Lola Run, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Showgirls, Secretary, Bound, Dazed and Confused, Dirty Dancing, Risky Business, Sound of Music, Funny Girl, Sweet and Lowdown, Elizabeth, Talk to Her, Waiting for Guffman. Films of: Pedro Almodovar, Spike Jonze, Coen Bros., Kubrick, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Kevin Smith, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest, Deepa Mehta, Alejandro González Iñárritu, documentaries...foreign...independant...blah, blah, blah...
Man...f*ck that sh*t.
The Dictionary, Wikipedia, graphic novels, cookbooks, short story collections; Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real L.A., I Lucifer, Like Being Killed, Terminal Velocity, Lolita, Slaughterhouse Five, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, On the Road, Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me, The Well of Loneliness, Stone Butch Blues, Flaming Iguanas, Godspeed, Tipping the Velvet, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Craig Thompson's "Blankets", Feast of Love, The Other, Secret History, Rent Girl, Small Favors, Savage Love. Authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Ayn Rand, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Tom Robbins, David Sedaris, E.M. Forester, Michelle Tea, Aimee Bender, Amber Gayle.
My Grandfather for his unconditional kindness and generosity of spirit. My Grandmother for her fierce independence and razor-sharp wit. Thank you for all you've taught me.