Traveling; writing; mentoring; movies not on video; ephemeral films; fun fabric; cereal; books not in print; good spelling & punctuation; sleaze history; hidden treasures; interesting people; trashy biographies; song-poems; France; candy stores; short stories; smushy animal faces; unsolicited compliments; educational films; chimney sweeps; surprises (nice ones); Disneyland; thrift shopping; any donut-like concoction; lunch boxes; plastic dolls; good deals; glitter; palm trees; scented soaps, etc…
Music
Movies
Alphaville; The Apple; Style Wars; Ciao! Manhattan; Downtown 81; Don’t Look Back; Grey Gardens; Who are you, Polly Maggoo?; Trainspotting; Betty Blue; Darling; Myra Breckinridge; Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story; Umberto D.; Beaver Trilogy; How to Draw a Bunny, The Legend of Leigh Bowery. (Filmmakers: Kenneth Anger; Nelson Sullivan; Samuel Fuller; Billy Wilder; Luis Buñuel; Werner Herzog; Frank Capra; Woody Allen; Pedro Almodovar; Jean-Jacques Beineix; Jim Jarmusch; Harold Lloyd; Fritz Lang; Penelope Spheeris; Preston Sturges; Jacques Tati; John Waters; Josef von Sternberg; Orson Welles; Jan Svankmajer; Brothers Quay)
Television
Bewitched; Mary Tyler Moore Show; The Brady Bunch; Laverne and Shirley; Facts of Life; Antiques Road Show; Fishing With John; Six Feet Under; RW/RR Challenges; America’s Next Top Model; The Surreal Life; Project Runway; What Not To Wear (UK), etc…
Books
Permanent Midnight; Girlfriend in a Coma; Microserfs; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Fabulous Nobodies; Dangerous Angels; On Mermaid Avenue; Foxfire; Immortality; the Kiss; Minor Characters; Party of One: The Loner’s Manifesto; the Robber Bride; Naked; Coffee, Tea, or Me?; Ham on Rye; Severed; Crime Wave; Memoires of an Amnesiac; She’s Come Undone; The Adrian Mole Diaries; The Best of Roald Dahl; Ways of Seeing; The Bell Jar; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; Varieties of Religious Experience; Utz; etc…
i saw chris gore on G4 last week giving a glowing review of Tom Cruise and movie 'Valkyrie'. i'm pretty sure his old self would want to kill his new self.
see... now this is no fun anymore since it involves no envelopes and letters and harassing of your colleagues..... damnit. i wish it was 1992 again! *clicks heels three times*