Procrastinating while dissertating, Pop culture, Media theory, The Cats (Walker and Linus), Yoga, Breaking news, Red Sox games, Phillies games, Rock and/or roll music, Montreal, Boston, London, Philadelphia, Knitting, Wii Sports!, Nostalgia, Social memory, Thinking about getting an English bulldog named Franklin
Vincent Joseph Magee and our English bulldog named Franklin
Kinks, Replacements, Smiths, Monkees, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, New Pornographers, Death Cab For Cutie, American Music Club, Sleater-Kinney, John Prine, Oasis, Blur, The Verve, Deathray Davies, The Shins, The Jam, The Easybeats, John Vanderslice, Long Winters, Old 97's, Sloan, The Hold Steady, The Thermals, Lemonheads, Springsteen, The Band, U2, NWA, We Are Scientists, Fountains of Wayne, Neko Case, We Are Scientists, RUMP POSSE
Dazed and Confused, Better Off Dead, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, The Apartment, Good Night and Good Luck, Bring It On, The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Bad Santa, Singin' in the Rain, Head, Meteor, The Station Agent, Say Anything, Pretty in Pink, Over the Edge, The Philadelphia Story, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Most of Kevin Smith's oeuvre, That sequence in The Andromeda Strain where they go down several different levels and wear a different colored jumpsuit on each floor, COMMANDO
CSI and its delightfully trashy Miami spinoff, Homicide, 24, The Simpsons, The OC, Lost, Project Runway, Rescue Me, Veronica Mars, The Wire, Entourage, UGLY BETTY, Life on Mars, Top Chef, Any sort of reality competition crap on VH1 (especially if it includes drunk, washed-up rockers), Big Love, Flight of the Conchords, Weeds
Of Human Bondage, The Dirt, Mythologies, 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Changed New York, Microserfs, About a Boy, The Practice of Everyday Life, The Ritual Process, Stitch 'N Bitch, Bee Season, Americana, Feeding the Monster, Louisa Luna's oeuvre, Salinger, Fitzgerald, etc., The Complete Peanuts
Dennis Franz, The 2004 Boston Red Sox, Pa