Reading magazines, novels, and comic books; watching soap operas of any kind; taking road trips; performing karaoke; learning and practicing graphic design; studying the Warhol Factory and the NY art/music scene of the '60s and '70s
Anyone who can motivate me without being bossy. Anyone who will laugh at my jokes. Anyone who can make me laugh. People who like singing in the car. People who like listening to me sing in the car. A guy who wants to spend warm, rainy days with my underwear-clad-Hobbit body, messin' around while we listen to the "Really Doin' It" mix on the iPod. Guys who like the phrase "messin' around". Guys who like the smell of Hawaiian Tropic tanning oil (the old fashioned kind with no SPF), 'cause that's how I smell from May until October. Guys who want to count my tan lines. "The kind of guy who tries to win you over." Also:Carrie Fisher, Jackie Collins, Gina Riley, Chip Kidd, Cherry Vanilla, Morrissey (though he'd be bored before we even began), Joe Dallesandro, Ben McKenzie's bicep and Robert Best's chest. And if it were possible: Lance Loud, Xander Harris, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, and Summer Roberts.
The Animals, '60s Girl Groups, "Everyday I Write the Book" by Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Phil Spector's Wall of Sound productions, Dusty Springfield's "Dusty in Memphis", '70s NYC Punk Rock, "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones, the Original Cast Album of The Pajama Game, Blondie, Flesh For Lulu's "Long Live the New Flesh", The Raveonettes, "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels, The Cardigans, The Killers, Cherry Vanilla, "Last Nite" by Vitamin C, the The's "Dusk", Texas, "Lay Lady Lay" by Magnet and Gemma Hayes, Geri Halliwell, The Pixies' "Doolittle", Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Mari Wilson's "Showpeople", The Velvet Underground, Ivy, "Ways to Be Wicked" by Lone Justice, Le Tigre's first record, Giorgio Moroder's "American Gigolo" soundtrack, Robbie Williams, "Avalon" by Roxy Music, Linda Ronstadt, Garbage's "Version 2.0", "Shadows of the Night" by Pat Benatar, Francoise Hardy, Morrissey, "Satellite of Love" by Lou Reed, Sam Cooke, The Old 97s, "Vanilla" by Cybill Shepherd, any single with a good hook and an even better chorus
John Waters' Female Trouble, John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Woody Allen's Sleeper, Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco, Nine to Five, Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot, Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming, Wet Hot American Summer, Jean Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders, West Side Story, Mary Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol, A Summer Place, Paul Morrissey's Blood For Dracula, Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, Psycho Beach Party, Peter Bogdonavich's The Last Picture Show, Kenneth Anger's Kustom Kar Kommandos, John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off, All About Eve, Robert Redford's Ordinary People, Girls Will Be Girls, Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, Cruel Intentions, Billy Wilder's The Apartment, Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys, Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education
Angel, The Rocky Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Strangers With Candy, Extras, Freaks and Geeks, The Carol Burnett Show, Dawson's Creek, Reno 911, Twin Peaks, Kath and Kim, South Park, Alias, 30 Rock, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The OC, Arrested Development, Smallville, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Veronica Mars, The Office, Flight of the Conchords, that episode of Friends where Phoebe sings with the bagpipes
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Misadventures in the (213) by Dennis Hensley, Touch Me:The Poems of Suzanne Somers, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Lady Boss by Jackie Collins, Naked by David Sedaris, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, Numbers by John Rechy, Youth in Revolt by CD Payne, The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving, Edie:An American Biography by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, Working Out by Charles Hix, Funny Men by Ted Heller, A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice, Blondie by Lester Bangs, Daredevil comics by Brian Michael Bendis and Ed Brubaker, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran-Foer, the TASCHEN "All-American Ads" series
Armistead Maupin, Carrie Fisher