I'm kind to animals and people. I am inappropriate. I'm simultaneously opinionated and open-minded. I'm lactose intolerant. I paint: marinaomi.com

I like so many types of music that I can't possibly list all my favorites in this little box, so I'll just go off: Neutral Milk Hotel, David Bowie, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Blondie, Pat Benatar, Sparks, A Flock of Seagulls, Aretha Franklin, Fiona Apple, Poe, Nelly Furtado, Joan Jett, Ben Harper, The Cars, Eurythmics, Visage, Built to Spill, Iron and Wine, Cat Power, The Beatles, The Cure, Wyclef Jean, The Clash, Radiohead, Cracker, Coldplay, Camper Van Beethoven, Bauhaus, The International Noise Conspiracy, Alphaville, Dire Straits, Echobelly, Galaxie 500, Imperial Teen, Luna, Manu Chao, David Byrne, Low, The Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, Interpol, The New Pornographers, Bing Crosby, Jack Johnson, Leonard Cohen, Japan, Love and Rockets, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Spoon, Throwing Muses, The Who, Pink Floyd, Postal Service, Stereolab, Travis, The Pogues, Belle and Sebastian, Queen, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Belly, Ella Fitzgerald, Moby, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, The Vines, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tones on Tail, Yaz, Film School, Komeda, Ladytron, Phoenix, Call and Response, Yo La Tengo, The Arcade Fire, Eels, Quasi, Red Elvises, The White Stripes, Dave Brubeck, Glenn Miller, Pavement, Adam and the Ants, Gang of Four, Oingo Boingo, Ultravox, Barry White, Marvin Gaye, Sade, Elton John, Beastie Boys, Fugees, Zero 7, and on and on...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Repo Man, Best in Show, Ghost Dog, You and Me and Everyone We Know, The Big Lebowski, Delicatessen, The Royal Tenenbaums, Waiting for Guffman, The Shining, When Harry Met Sally, Wings of Desire, Spinal Tap, Amazon Women on the Moon, Personal Best, Five Corners, Carny, Young Frankenstein, Miller's Crossing, Willard

Kill your cable TV. (Viva la DVD!)

Kurt Vonnegut, Salman Rushdie, David Sedaris, Melissa Bank, Inga Muscio's Cunt, Scott Russo's Jizz, Ariel Gore's Atlas of the Human Heart, Edward Gorey, Mary Fleener's Slutburger, Joe Matt's Peepshow, Chester Brown's I Never Liked You, Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve, John Irving's The World According to Garp and Hotel New Hampshire, George Orwell's 1984, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle and Sudden Death, Fydor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Notes From the Underground, The Color Purple, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Art Spiegelman's Maus, The Hours, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, Kiyoshi Nakazawa's Drunken Master zines, Pet Noir, Sandra Bernhardt's Love, Love and Love