Howdy, folks! Well, I’m between paintings right now and have nothing better to do, so I thought I’d whip up this favourites page really quick as a way for people to get to know me better. This is different from the “Shit I Love” page, in that these are specific categories, the stuff you’d find on Facebook if I were to add you (which I won’t), and they are generally unwavering.

So here we go!

Favourite Bands & Musicians:
- Hole (notice that I did not say “Courtney Love”)
- The Pixies
- Old Metallica
- Scratching Post
- Minx
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- The Violent Femmes
- Cake
- The Bloodhound Gang
- The White Stripes
- Battles
- System of a Down
- Nirvana
- Guns ‘n’ Roses
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Buddy Holly
- Beastie Boys
- Radiohead
- Gogol Bordello
- Los Campesinos!
- M.I.A.
But mostly I like songs over bands.

Favourite Movies:
- Frida
- The Hours
- The Wizard of Oz
- Pollock
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Ghostworld
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Dirty Dancing
- American Beauty
- Carrie
- The Exorcist
- Tank Girl
- A Dirty Shame
- Pecker
- Wristcutters: A Love Story
- Winter Passing
- Romeo + Juliet
- Moulin Rouge
- The Last Unicorn
- Wall-e
- Grey Gardens
- Hackers
- Almost Famous
- Basquiat
- House of 1000 Corpses
- The Devil’s Rejects

Favourite Actors:
- Johnny Depp
- Ed Harris
- Kevin Spacey
- Gary Oldman
- Johnny Knoxville (shut up)
- Steve Carell
- Geoffrey Rush
- Brad Pitt

Favourite Actresses:
- Cate Blanchett
- Kate Winslet
- Christina Ricci
- Drew Barrymore
- Nicole Kidman
- Meryl Streep
- Mary-Louise Parker
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Julianne Moore
- Kate Hudson (although I wish she’d do better movies…)
- Natalie Portman
- Anne Hathaway
- Zooey Deschanel
- Lizzy Caplan
- Judi Dench
- Fairuza Balk
- Shannyn Sossamon
- Angelina Jolie

Favourite TV Shows, Past and Present:
- Night Court
- The Golden Girls
- Weeds
- The Office
- Degrassi Jr. High, Degrassi High, Degrassi The Next Generation
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Heroes
- Grey’s Anatomy
- My Name is Earl
- Mad Men
- Lost
- Kenny Vs. Spenny
- My So-Called Life
- Freaks and Geeks
- Big Love
- Gossip Girl
- 90210, past and present
- Battlestar Galactica
- Californication
- The Dog Whisperer (yes I know, he’s controversial, I just like watching it)
- Xena: Warrior Princess (no joke, I named my KID after Gabrielle. :oP)
- Oprah (actually, I have a love/hate thing going on with Oprah)

Favourite Books:

Fiction:

- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- White Oleander by Janet Fitch
- The Witching Hour, Lasher and Taltos all by Anne Rice
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Non-Fiction:

- Hey Whipple, Squeeze This by Luke Sullivan
- The Copywriter’s Bible by Alastair Crompton
- Soap, Sex and Cigarettes: A Cultural History of American Advertising by Juliann Sivulka
- The Mirror Makers by Stephen Fox
- Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
- AdCult USA by James B. Twitchell

Favourite Quotes:

“It’s okay, I have a Mustang! – Nicole Hughes

“I had no idea i was a city girl.” – Nicole Hughes

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” – Joan Didion

“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.” – Jules Renard

“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.” – Russell Baker

“I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.” – Frederico Fellini

“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.” – Frida Kahlo

“Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.” – David Ogilvy

“You gotta think about it like the first time you got laid. You gotta go: “Daddy, are you sure this is right?”" – Tank Girl

“I think I’ll be an old maid until I die. I’ll probably sit around with cats for the rest of my life. Whatever happens, I certainly won’t start to drink. But I do have what you call entrenched habits, and I’m not going to change them.” – Little Edie

“Will you shut up? It’s a goddamn beautiful day, shut up!” – Big Edie

Favourite Artists:
Truthfully, I don’t know a whole lot about art, even though I make it. But I like Frida Kahlo and I like Jackson Pollock and that’s pretty much it as far as famous people go. Oh and Mark Ryden. Mostly I’m inspired by Suzi Blu and Valery Milovic, though. (If you were to ever want to buy me a present, a Valery Milovic piece is the way to go.) Also, Banksy.

Favourite Foods:
- BBQ’d steak & potatoes
- Peameal bacon & eggs
- Chicken-fried rice
- Beef & broccoli stir-fry
- Beef teriyaki
- Chicken kiev
- Shake & Baked pork chops
- Kraft Dinner
- Corn Pops
- Havarti cheese
- Asparagus
- Broccoli with cheese sauce
- Raw peas out of the pod
- Mushrooms
- GOOD pizza (which I’ve yet to find in my area :o( )
- Green beans & butter

Favourite Restaurants:
- Stouffville Pizza (Stouffville, Ontario – best pizza outside of NYC)
- Haugen’s BBQ (Manchester, Ontario – best ribs & fresh strawberry pie in THE WORLD)
- Good Eat (Stouffville, Ontario – best chinese food, period)

What I Get At Starbucks:
- Blended Creme Vanilla Bean Frappuccino

Favourite Colours:
- Pink & Turquoise
- Greens
- Black
- Shiny metallic anything!

Favourite Art Supplies:
- Americana acrylic paints
- Golden Acrylic Glazing Liquid (Satin)
- Golden Gel Medium (Matte)
- Weathered Wood Crackle Medium (DecoArt)
- One Step Crackle (DecoArt)
- Craft Twinkles (glitter paint by DecoArt)
- Scrabooking papers
- Spray bottle of plain water
- Scrapbooking fibers
- Thread