my family, boyfriend and friends that love me no matter how many times I'm late or screw up, tattoos, books, kitty cats, skydiving, antiques, my Ipod, Ring of Honor (go-go El Generico, the Average Luchadore...Ole!), Buddhism, lip balm, prayer flags, high heels, porn, vintage Halloween and circus memorabilia, Day of the Dead (the holiday, not the movie!) stuff, Hello Kitty, corsets, things that sparkle, so-ugly-they're-hot 50s lamps, ginger ale, reverse-carved lucite, kisses, chalkware, marshmallows, Yankee Candle Company candles, Ebay, flannel sheets, happy endings, on-demand cable, sleeping in, perfume, paying back karmic debt, Freemasons, DVDs, bubble baths, obsessively reading Us Weekly to see how the rich and the beautiful are living, Apple computers, and lately I've been totally hooked on the World of Warcraft (level 70 gnome protection warrior with a Drakefist Hammer...woohoo! I might not be full-on epic yet, but 10,000 more Kara runs and I'll be able to beat your lame Horde ass. And by the way, a big shout-out to all my favorite SDKs and my rogue partner-in-crime. Hell, even that super-special someone who runs with the red guy by playing for the dark side!)
Dean Winters, you can sit on my lap anytime! Also, my new television husband, Mike Rowe. There's nothing hotter than a man's man knee-deep in muck while quoting classical literature or singing opera. Also, I'm currently crushing on Bear Grylls...'cos he's handsome, been to the top of Everest, also likes to jump out of perfectly good airplanes (and be way better at it than I'll ever be!), and for the cute way he says "iodine" with his sexy accent. He has my vote for the person I'd most like to be stranded with in case of a major catastrophe. Well, maybe that vote goes to Les Stroud. He might not be as sexy, but boy is he hardcore! That "lost at sea" episode still blows my mind, even if it was one seriously insane yet relatively "controlled" experiment. Of course, my first imaginary husband, Tom Waits, will still always hold a special place in my heart. And my libido aside, I just want to hang with El Generico, because I think that the "average luchadore" wrestling gimmick is one of the most hysterical, best ever!
Shudder to Think, And Heaven Shall Burn, Kurbjaw, September Violence, Last Living Romantic, Sense Field, Joy Division, David Bowie, Milemarker, Handsome, Kate Bush, Sigur Ros, Bad Brains, Cro-Mags, Samiam, Hole, Motorhead, Lungfish, The Smiths, Burning Airlines, Elliott Smith, Sneaker Pimps, Duncan Sheik, Pedro the Lion, Jets to Brazil, UNKLE, Sunny Day Real Estate, Vision, Jawbox, Madonna, Echo and the Bunnymen, Glassjaw, Shift, Chaka Khan, Errortype:11, Leeway, Supertouch, DJ Shadow, Linkin Park, Tori Amos, Portishead, Descendents, Dag Nasty, Jawbreaker, Tom Waits, The Cure, Queens of the Stone Age, Chavez, The Decemberists, Sade, Lamya, Roni Size, DJ Krust, Social Distortion, Goldie, Token Entry, New Order, Duran Duran, The Killers, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cult, The Pretenders, Smile Empty Soul, Turbonegro, My Chemical Romance, The Beatles, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Pink Floyd, Billy Joel, Johnny Cash, Death Cab For Cutie, The Specials, Hum, Pharcyde, Dashboard Confessional, Amorphis, Oasis, Starling, Jane's Addiction...so much more! Between Lou and I, we own more music than your average record store...not kidding!
The Lost Weekend, A Life of Her Own, Auntie Mame, Pan's Labyrinth, I Take This Woman, The Red Shoes, Wuthering Heights, Shaun of the Dead, House of the Flying Daggers, Metropolis, Hero, Supersize Me, The Virgin Suicides, Full Metal Jacket, The Major and the Minor, Edward Scissorhands, 28 Days Later, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Ikiru, Casablanca, Some Kind of Wonderful, Blade Runner, Singing in the Rain, Amelie, Mulholland Drive, Five Fingers of Death, Master Killer, Animal House, A Clockwork Orange, Romper Stomper, Citizen Kane, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Heathers, Apocalypse Now, The Cool Chick, Pot O' Gold, Poltergeist, Mean Girls, Big Fish, The Wizard of Oz, Point Break, The Clock, The Legend of Leigh Bowery, Death Takes a Holiday, Random Harvest, The Chronicles of Narnia, Magnificent Obsession, Wings of Desire, Belle Du Jour, Bridget Jones's Diary, The Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (both!), Shakespeare in Love, The Nightmare Before Christmas, King's Row. Hell, I'm a sucker for old movies...they just don't make 'em like they used to!
Oz, Dirty Jobs, Man vs. Wild, Ugly Betty, Dexter, Dead Like Me, The Honeymooners, Iron Chef, Band of Brothers, Six Feet Under, Top Chef, Survivorman, MXC, Carnivale, CSI, Meerkat Manor, Leave It To Beaver, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Drawn Together, The Colbert Report, Fantasy Island, Our Gang, Futurama, anything PBS, The Jeff Corwin Experience, Little House on the Prairie, Wonder Woman, The Dukes of Hazzard, Nip/Tuck, Dobie Gillis, House, Intervention, Psych, The Simple Life, The Patty Duke Show, Diff'rent Strokes, Law and Order: SVU, Wonderfalls, Punky Brewster, Joan of Arcadia, The Surreal Life, Antiques Roadshow, The Facts of Life, Gilligan's Island, and although I never get to see them anymore, I love horrible daytime talk shows, especially when Maury Povich has primordial dwarves or baby momma drama. Guilty pleasures are Rock of Love and Scott Baio is 45...and a Big Fat Douchebag!
The Little Prince, The Power of Myth, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Heart of Darkness, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Odyssey, The Illiad, Candide, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, I Know This Much Is True, She's Come Undone, Song of Soloman, The Tibetian Book of Living and Dying, To Kill a Mockingbird, Paradise Lost, The Ascent of Man, The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, The Celestine Prophecy, Motherless Daughters, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Velveteen Rabbit, In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash, In the Pit with Piper, The Canterbury Tales, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Illusions, The Skydiver's Survival Guide, Knitting for Dummies, anything by Joseph Campbell, William Shakespeare, Toni Morrison, Mark Twain, Jean Shepherd, Wally Lamb, Mitch O' Connell, Eric Pigors, Mark Ryden, Edward Gorey, Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Maurice Sendak or Shel Silverstein, all of the classics (for kids and grown-ups alike), lots of medieval poetry and stuff by dead Greeks and Romans, and absolutely anything about tattooing...BOOKS ROCK MY WORLD! YAY, BOOKS!
Joseph Campbell! The people who do kind, amazing things every single day that go unnoticed. My pop for giving me the values I need to live, and my mom for showing me how to die. Hedy Lamarr, Ginger Rogers and Lana Turner, the three most stunning women ever captured on film. Ray Milland, for being one of the most fucking brilliant actors of his day and classic looks that literally make a girl weak in the knees. Finally, Ian Curtis for expressing the things that most people can't, giving a sense of community in isolation, and then having the courage to walk the walk.