50's retro kitsch, a feeling of displacement, age gap relationships, alton brown, anachronistic existence, animals, anti-establishment, asshole boyfriends, autumn, avant garde rock, baking, bars, bdsm, beat, beat poetry, beatniks, beer, being worthless, bettie page, billie holiday, blind melon, bondage, bonfires, botero, brandy alexanders, chagall, charles bukowski, chub, chuck palahniuk, coffee and cigarettes, collared, cooking, corona, crocheting, darwinism, dating writers, dawn weiner, demo the graphic novel, depression, developmental disabilities, dog fashion disco, edythe wright, eraserhead, esquivel, family guy, fat chicks, feminism, forensic pathology, frank black, gay rights, getting off, ghost world, ghosts, ghoststudy, giraffes, green acres, headshops, human rights, human sexuality, independent film, intellectual superiority, italian motorcycles, jack kerouac, john waters, ken kesey, knitting, leonard cohen, loneliness, lou reed, luxury cigarettes, mapplethorpe, masochism, matisyahu, memorizing the dictionary, michael chabon, mocking karaoke, moto guzzi, motorcycle t-shirts, my morning jacket, nag champa, narcissism, neil diamond, older men, organic, organic gardening, pain, paranormal, photography, pot, power exchange, pro-choice, questionable content, recovering si, roadtrips, rufus wainwright, sadomasochism, sarcasm, sca, self hate, servitude, solitude, spankings, stan getz, stephen king, sublime, submission, suicide, super troopers, swing, thai food, the andrews sisters, the decemberists, the dunes, the girl from ipanema, the mule variations, the muppet show, the power of pussy, the rifleman, the velvet underground, the white stripes, thora birch, threesomes, tiger balm, tom waits, trevor, type o negative, uncollared, welcome to the dollhouse, wes anderson, white zinfandel, willie nelson, womens' rights

Music... it is so defining for certain things in my life... Okay, I'll try to keep this short-- Tom Waits Sublime Matisyahu Frank Black (with and without Pixies) My Morning Jacket Billie Holiday The Dorsey Brothers Etta James Sarah Vaughn Babes in Toyland Blind Melon Johnny Cash The White Stripes Rufus Wainwright Leonard Cohen Nick Cave Dog Fashion Disco The Velvet Underground Lou Reed Willie Nelson I'll stop now.

Eraserhead, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wes Anderson films, John Waters films, Gummo, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Original Dawn of the Dead, May, American Movie, Ghost World