April 21, 2005
the Influences
Music:
Amelie ST
Louis Armstrong
Etta Baker
the Beauty Shop*
Blonde Redhead
Brazilian Girls
the Butchies
Johnny Cash
Death Cab for Cutie
Ella Fitzgerald
David Fridlund
Fugazi
PJ Harvey
Billie Holiday
the Knife
Alan Lomax
Modest Mouse
Willie Nelson
Old 97s
Postal Service
Prince
Damien Rice
Sleater Kinney
the Streets
the Violents*
Rufus Wainwright
Tom Waits
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Movies:
Aimee & Jaguar
Amelie
Animatrix
Bringing Up Baby
Bunny
But I'm a Cheerleader
Chicken Run
Clash of the Titans
Donnie Darko
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Face/Off
Ghost World
Grave of the Fireflies
Hellboy
Hero
High Fidelity
Hudsucker Proxy
the Incredibles
Lost Boys
Monsters Inc.
all Muppet Movies
Nurse Betty
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
the Philadelphia Story
Princess Mononoke
the Quick & the Dead
Red Curtain Trilogy
Run Lola Run
Secretary
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Titus
Triplets of Belleville
True Romance
Wallace & Gromit
TV:
Angel
Arrested Development
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
the Family Guy
Firefly
Futurama
Jeremiah
Law & Order: SVU
Millenium
the Office (BBC)
the Simpsons
Twin Peaks
Wonderfalls
Comic Books:
the Authority
Batgirl
Batman
Blue Monday
BPRD / Hellboy
Calvin & Hobbes
Elektra
Fables
Ghost World
Maus
Midnight Nation
the complete Moonshadow
Mutts
Origin
Powers
Preacher
Rising Stars
Ronin
Sin City
Tank Girl
30 Days of Night
Books / Authors:
the Action Heroine's Handbook
Baron in the Trees (Calvino)
Birth of Venus
the Bloody Chamber (Carter)
the Body Electric (Becker & Selden)
Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
Dare to Repair
England, England (Barnes)
Fast Food Nation (Schlosser)
Foxfire (Oates)
Frog & Toad (Lobel)
the Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxies (Adams)
Joy of Cooking
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Pablo Neruda
Silent Spring (Carson)
Solo Suppers
Taijiquan (Yang)
Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera)
Women Who Eat
Locations:
airplanes
Bacaro
Boardman's Art Theatre
Caffe Paradiso
the farm in Hampshire
first thing in the morning before I'm actually awake
grilling with friends
in bed with a book (and my cats)
in the bathtub
Meadowbrook Park
Mike 'n Molly's
mom's back patio
Persimmon
seeing Kira for the first time that day, smiles
West Side Park
