| General | Performance art, costuming, motorcycles, scooters, belly dancing, fire dancing, food, dumpster diving, thrift shopping, found objects, Catholic saints, pagan rites, language, vintage anything (mostly ephemera and textiles) kitty cats and other critters, nature, supernature, curiosities of all sorts. | | Music | Kate Bush, Tom Waits, Julian Cope, Nick Cave, The Magnetic Fields, Cowboy Mouth, Pixies, Cheap Trick, Jane Siberry, Kurt Weil, Happy Rhodes, White Stripes, Dead Can Dance, The Police, They Might Be Giants, Tori Amos, The Beatles, X, Warren Zevon, Beck, et al. Currently loving Times New Viking.
| | Movies | Scotland PA, Anchorman, Moonstruck, The Producers (the original), Say Anything, A Room With A View, Auntie Mame, Fight Club, House of Yes, films by the Coen Brothers (especially Raising Arizona), Fanny and Alexander, The Wicker Man (the first one), Repo Man, Straight to Hell, Gone with the Wind, Boondock Saints, The Station Agent, Wings of Desire, Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, et al. | | Television | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Homicide, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Arrested Development, The Office, Extras, Dexter, Big Love. | | Books | The Stolen Child, A Confederacy of Dunces, Lolita, The Master and Margarita, Dubliners (especially "Araby" and "The Dead"), The Razor's Edge, Middlemarch, A Gracious Plenty, Wuthering Heights, Shakespeare plays, anything by Jane Austen or Thomas Hardy or Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Neil Gaiman or Philip Pullman, and works from the Romantic and Victorian eras. | | Heroes | My twin sister, Stephen Colbert, Jean D'Arc, Colette, my mother. |
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