Wandering around a new city, thrift shops, knitty, spending all day in the kitchen with the radio on, wine, creatures, bellydance, spice markets, psycholanalysis, vocabulary, semiotics, drinking good coffee and craft beer, ethnic food, painting, dive bars, mid-century modern design, travel by train and road trips, kitsch, staying up late, horses and riding them, reading other people's blogs
Renegades and revolutionaries, mathemeticians and drag queens, Gypsies and mad Turks, people from my dark and sordid past.
More, please! Flaming Lips, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, jazz (bebop in particular), Royal Trux, Billie Holiday, The Fall, La Casa Azul, Belle & Sebastian, Magnetic Fields, Turkish arabesk and psychedelic, Tarif de Haiidouks, Led Zeppelin, Pere Ubu, St. Etienne, Edith Piaf, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Sinatra, White Stripes...
Most things from the 70's for the plots and decor, film noir, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Carrie, Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, Goodfellas, anything Hitchcock, Woody Allen and Emir Kustica.
Old episodes of Star Trek, whatever's on PBS, boring documentaries, Robin Byrd...
Psychology and neuroscience textbooks, theory/criticism (art, society, race, gender) language instruction, early Southern writers, Raymond Carver, George Orwell, Orhan Pamuk, JD Salinger, Patrick McCabe, Henry Miller, Michel Foucault, Haruki Murakami, Franz Kafka...I was a liberal arts undergrad, what can I say...
My handsome genius of a husband, Laurie Anderson, Andy Warhol, Mister Rogers and Dr. Freud.