Art. Bold. Civil Liberties. Drinking & Darts. Education. Food. Girls. Happiness. Intelligence. Jilling Off. Kicking ass. Law. Men. Nudity. Orgasms. Pool. Questioning dominant paradigms. Reproductive Rights. Sex. Taking care of people I love. UFOs. Voicing my opinion. Wisdom. X. Yakking. Zoning.
John Galt
The voices in my head, mainly. I don't listen to much. KEXP. Golden Palominos. Page & Plant. Loreena McKennitt. Steely Dan. Kyuss. Godsmack. Kate Bush. Jane's Addiction. No Doubt. Jeff Buckley. Bjork. Pink Floyd. CSN. The Minutemen. Nickelback. Aaron Neville. Thelonious Monk. Tonic. Bad Brains. kd lang. Fleetwood Mac. Portishead. Richie Havens. The soundtrack to 'Until the End of the World'. Mixes by guys I've slept with.
Tampopo. The Hunt for Red October. Babette's Feast. Princess Mononoke. Shawshank Redemption. The Matrix (first one ONLY). Koyaanisqatsi. Powaqqatsi. Henry V. Spirited Away. LOTR. Breakfast Club. Fantasia. M*A*S*H. Y Tu Mama Tambien. Fried Green Tomatoes. The Silence of the Lambs. Raising Arizona. The Exorcist. Beetlejuice. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Prince of Darkness. Pulp Fiction. L.A. Story. Good Will Hunting. Total Recall. The Abyss. Je Vous Salut Marie. Secretary.
Don't do TV anymore.
Too fuckin' many to list. Before I had my kid, I devoured books the way a fat man devours McDonalds. After the kid, my brains leaked out my tits as I breastfed, and I couldn't even read Doonesbury without it hurting. Bye-bye NYTimes Sunday Crossword, hello "Pat the GODDAMNED Bunny". Now I'm in law school and everything I read has titles like "The Torts Process" and "World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson" . But since you asked, my chart toppers are as follows: Atlas Shrugged. The Last Temptation of Christ. Holy Blood, Holy Grail. One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Dune Trilogy. The Exorcist. Anything by Steven King. Dancing Naked in the Minefield. The Elegant Universe. The Sign and the Seal. Anything by Harlan Ellison. Permanent Midnight. Soul of a Chef. Kitchen Confidential. Anything by Camille Paglia. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Imagica. Lolita. The Chung Kuo series. The Chess Garden. Harry Potter. His Dark Materials Trilogy. Lesbian Erotica. All erotica, actually. The Messianic Legacy. Most of Robertson Davies' stuff. Ferlinghetti.
William O. Douglas. The guy who discovered coffee. Geishas.