yoga, mountain biking, bowling, poking around yard sales and flea markets, pin-up and burlesque art, cemeteries, old buildings, the psychology of serial killers, gardening... all kinds of stuff, really. I like learning new things. Intrigued by the idea of writing for social change.
No one, really. I'm kind of shy.
Portishead, Wanda Jackson, Beastie Boys, And Wutz, the Konks, Johnny Cash, the Ronettes, Howlin' Wolf, Reverend Horton Heat, Ministry, Neko Case, Tom Waits, the Screws. Things that are raw with singers that yelp and snort and howl, move beyond just singing.
Scary. Psychological thrillers. Dark humor, like Mean Girls/Heathers type stuff. Tarantino. Comic book movies.
CSI. And any kind of VH1 countdown thing. Seriously.
Essential. Nonfiction on serial killers and burlesque. Current fiction authors: Joyce Carol Oates, Sherman Alexie, Douglas Coupland. Other writers I dig: Anais Nin, MAx Brooks, Jhumpa Lahiri, J.K. Rowling, Virginia Woolf, Erik Larson. Right now I'm reading a lot of texts on editing to try to pick one for the class I'll be teaching this fall. I'm also almost done with World War Z.
The Bettys: Page, Crocker, Friedan. Elizabeth I.