The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Cold Comfort Farm, The Road to Wellville, Delicatessen, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
tori amos, cowboy junkies, neil young, peter murphy, porcupine tree, bel canto, sisters of mercy, leonard cohen, cocteau twins, classical Indian percussion, bluegrass
Labyrinths and Everything and Nothing - Jorge Luis Borges, anything by Roald Dahl, Omnivores - Lydia Millet, all things Margaret Atwood, Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut, Philosophy in the Bedroom - the Marquis de Sade, Spiritual Midwifery - Ina May Gaskin, Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins, The Science of Self-Realization - AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Lamb - Christopher Moore, Paris Spleen - Charles Baudelaire, An Underground Education - Richard Zacks, Harvest for Hope (and everything else) - Dr Jane Goodall, the Bhagavad Gita, The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver, Illusions - Richard Bach, Half the Human Experience - Janet Shibley Hyde, Choke - Chuck Palahniuk, Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs, The Skull of Charlotte Corday - Leslie Dick, The Essential Mystics - Andrew Harvey, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding - La Leche League, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, all of the Unexpurgated Diaries of Anais Nin
aesthetics, word, dissection, myself and others to whom I'm inexplicably attached, reading, Ayurveda, Unitarian Universalism, abnormal psychology, contortionism, victorian-era medical equipment, bondage and domination, assemblage et collage, corsetry, jivamukti yoga, patchouli, Italian moscato, euphemisms, shoes, my family, wildflowers, writing, Bollywood, breastfeeding advocacy, Boston terriers, double-jointed hips, hare krishna, compilation, pretzels, cultural anthropology, borderline personality disorder, bauuc, tom yum soup, persistent weeds, nostalgia, vegetarianism, guinea hogs, lay midwifery, fair trade, goatees, antique lace, antique books, antique jewelry, owls, wine, the mortuary sciences, masochism, satire, finding all the 'cold spots' in the sheets, goats, greyhounds, five-year-olds, purity, photographs, bread pudding, x-acto, film, black humour, scars, obsolete epidemiology, soy, brains, spider farming, apoliticality, anais nin, alternative parenting, scrap metal, etymology, semantics, hot tea, red pepper hummus, pathology, kamikaze art, naming things, reclusiveness, et al