favorite things: natural history, medical anomalies, green tea, chocolate covered ginger, nkisi, nigerian funerary posts, victorian hair crafts, flocked animals, alchemy, the mbira, sequins that have lost their luster, taxidermy catalogs, traveling, music, sea creatures-- well, all creatures, macro/micro....
vegan taxidermists, the aurora borealis, amy sedaris, a giant octopus, bamboo enthusiasts
congotronics, neil young, kate bush, neu!, johnny cash, michelle legrand, lcd sound system, king sunny ade, soundtracks from my dad's record collection, francis lai, mia doi todd, afroharpin', st. vincent, panda bear, the kinks, gorecki, david bowie, serge gainsbourg, ennio morricone...
the loved one, rear window, female convict scorpion jailhouse 41, fantastic planet, the umbrellas of cherbourg, microcosmos, barbarella, the touchables, beyond the valley of the dolls! little otik, contempt, eyes without a face, the dark crystal, the white mane, night of the hunter, purple noon, three women, and most documentaries....
jeopardy, anything nature related, any "surgeries gone wrong" / medical anomaly or medical emergency shows, nova, msnbc (keith olberman & chris matthews), kath & kim.....weeds, etc.
stiff by mary roach, nights at the circus and everything by angela carter, the god of small things by arundhati roy, bohumil hrabal, a house for mr. biswas by v.s. naipul, the changeling by joy williams, but mostly books on natural history and reference books. all kinds of reference books.
ernst haeckel, e.o. wilson, tesla, stephen jay gould, louise bourgeoise, will shortz, kiki smith, annette messagaer,immanuel velikovsky ....