books. film. poetry. intensity. picasso. children. french. efficiency. curls. extremes. black tea. basil. high heels. aquariums. theatre. coffee. kites. walking. fires. houseplants. dark dark purple. airports. debate. organization. music. cosmopolitans. photography. dance. triumph. subways. swimming. motorcycles. good gin. mountains. yoga. stars. lightning. travelling. people-watching. word games. flowers. concupiscence. big earrings. radicalism. balance.
A wealthy and generous long-lost relative of some sort.
Nina Simone, Saul Williams, Ani DiFranco, Manu Chao, DJ Shadow, Howlin' Wolf, Aretha Franklin, Orchestra Baobab, The Pixies, Lucero, Propagandhi, Good Riddance, Underworld, Decendents, Natasha Atlas, De La Soul, Tom Waits, Blackalicious, Frank Sinatra, Mos Def, NOFX, Slaughter (that's right), Op Ivy, Mars Volta, Glenn Miller, Dismemberment Plan, Marvin Gaye, Dead Kennedys, Rancid, Keith Jarrett, Pennywise, Jawbreaker, Babaa Maal, Lila Downs, Youssou 'n Dour, King Sunny Ade, Flaming Lips, Nikki Schultz, 12 Oz. Prophet, Sleater-Kinney, TV on the Radio, Subtle, Massive Attack, Fable and the World Flat, The Blow, John the Savage, Dead Milkmen, old Madonna...and I listen to a bunch of spoken word stuff, if that counts.
The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Amores Perros, The Dreamers, Wayne's World, Clerks, Rosemary's Baby, He Loves Me/He Loves Me Not, My Fair Lady, Spellbound, Y tu mama tambien, Napoleon Dynamite, Fight Club, the old BBC version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings movies, The Secretary, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Hustler, Slam, The Color of Money, City of God, Dark Days, Say Anything, Pan's Labyrinth, Machuca, documentaries of almost any kind...
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Newsradio, Roseanne, The Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks, The Office (UK), Married with Children, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Six Feet Under, Sopranos
In no particular order:Jane Eyre, They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky, Mukiwa, Bold Spirit, I Didn't Do It For You, Whores and Other Feminists, A Year in the Merde, "moi, Christiane F., 13 ans, droguee, prostituee...," God's Bits of Wood, The Motorcycle Diaries, Wuthering Heights, The House of Mirth, Madame Bovary, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, Metamorphoses, To the Barricades, The Negro Family in the United States, 1984, Jesus Land, Animal Farm, Shot in the Heart, everything by Jane Austen and Chuck Palahniuk, Black Like Me, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,Eugenie Granadet, Middlesex, First They Killed My Father, Sufferings in Africa, a bunch more that I forgot, I'm sure.
Emma Goldman. And Jenny.