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My Favorite Things: Ke$ha

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This week: Ke$ha, Nashville’s hard-partyin’, 24-year-old pop princess, whose massive Get $leazy Tour will hit more than 30 cities across North America this summer. Check out more entries in My Favorite Things.

FAVORITE SONG:
“Iggy Pop’s ‘Real Wild Child.’ It’s the last song I play before I walk onstage and the first song I play when I get off stage. It always gets me going.”

FAVORITE ALBUM:
“Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline. He is one of the most amazing songwriters ever and I grew up listening to him. I have always been inspired by the honesty in his lyrics. I love “Girl From the North Country Fair” with Johnny Cash; it’s one of my favorite songs of all time. It is one of the absolute best things you could ever hear.”

FAVORITE RECORD STORE:
Grimey’s in Nashville. Grimey is a good friend of mine and I’ve been going there since I was 13.”

FAVORITE TV SHOW:
Golden Girls. It’s like Sex and the City but in the golden years, and I love that all those old ladies talk about sex as much as I do.”

FAVORITE MOVIE:
Wayne’s World. Closely followed by Mad Max and The Lost Boys. But, I have to say, I’m in love with Garth. He’s my idea of a perfect man. Oh. My. God.”

FAVORITE BOOK:
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. He’s my favorite author.”

FAVORITE STORE:
Out of the Closet, which is a thrift store chain in California and Florida. It’s used stuff; it’s cheap; it’s like a treasure chest. But also they do free HIV testing and give 96 cents of every dollar to care for people living with HIV and AIDS.”

FAVORITE PET:
“I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.”

FAVORITE CELEBRITY:
Zach Galifianakis. And also that wrestler Ultimate Warrior; he’s my new fashion icon.”

FAVORITE GADGET:
OB tampons.”

FAVORITE KEEPSAKE:
“My placenta. My mom found in my basement, crushed up, and made into a necklace that I wear every day to improve my psychic abilities.”

FAVORITE ESSENTIAL ITEM FOR TOURING:
Glitter. I have so much fucking glitter. And blue lipstick.”

FAVORITE WAY TO PASS TIME ON THE ROAD:
“I paint and I moon people.”

FAVORITE PIECE OF MUSICAL GEAR:
“I just got a Moog Voyager. It’s my new favorite play toy. But I also fell in love with my Theremin. If you come to one of my Get $leazy shows this summer, you can see me solo on it. I run it through two delay pedals and an arpeggiator.”

FAVORITE MANTRA/QUOTE/PIECE OF ADVICE:
“Be yourself. Unapologetically. Fucking always.”

FAVORITE PLACE TO ESCAPE:
“Riding on a narwhal in the jungle. Naked.”

FAVORITE PIECE OF CLOTHING:
“An original vintage Guns N’ Roses Appetite For Destruction t-shirt. I bought it off a guy called Evil Ed who was wearing it at a dive bar in Nashville one night.”

FAVORITE JOKE:
“What’s the last thing you want to hear after giving Willie Nelson a blow job? ‘I’m not Willie Nelson.'”

FAVORITE PICK-UP LINE:
“Nice shoes. Wanna fuck?”

WATCH: Ke$ha, “Blow”

https://www.youtube.com/embed/CFWX0hWCbng