Booksmoviesmusic, and writing about such. Also putting off writing when I should be writing about such. Teh intarwebs. Cooking. Drinking coffee. Starting things I never manage to finish. Jake. Mmmm, beer. Going back to NYC to visit all the people I miss too much. Going back to Australia to see all the things I didn't see. Keeping moving.
People who blog in places other than MySpace. People who don't have shiny blinky MySpace profiles. People who don't believe in autoplaying MySpace audio.
I am indie rock and predictable. And I like bands that have websites of their own, not just MySpace pages. Also: Death Cab for Cutie. Mates of State. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. My friends' bands. Yes, yours! Jawbreaker. The Posies. Neko Case. Sleater-Kinney (RIP). TV on the Radio. Band of Horses. PJ Harvey. Catatonia. Superchunk. Cursive. Bobby Dylan. Spoon. Bright Eyes. Stuff that's good to sing along to. I suck at this game.
Labyrinth. The Apartment. Brotherhood of the Wolf. The Empire Strikes Back. Serenity. Brick. Tristram Shandy. Amelie. The Prestige. Y Tu Mama Tambien. Charade. Lost in Translation. I had a bunch of things here that I can no longer remember. Uh. Spirited Away. My Neighbor Totoro. City of Lost Children. Lord of the Rings. Laura. The Milagro Beanfield War. Moulin Rouge. Lilo and Stitch. Rushmore. Me Without You. Rebel Without a Cause. The Abyss. Say Anything. Some Kind of Wonderful. X2. A Life Less Ordinary. Howl's Moving Castle. Movie previews. I love those. Especially the one for Pan's Labyrinth.
Buffy, Buffy, Buffy. Angel. Firefly. Arrested Development. Lost. Grey's Anatomy. The Office (British only please). The Simpsons, up to a point. X-Files. Ducks basketball and the NCAA tournament. NBA games involving Ben Wallace and/or Kevin Garnett and/or Raja Bell. Heroes. Brothers and Sisters (shut up. I like the lawyer brother. Also the one from Six Feet Under).
Gregory Maguire. Neil Gaiman. William Gibson. Phillip Pullman. Ursula K. LeGuin. David Mitchell. Haruki Murakami. Neil Stephenson. Warren Ellis. Grant Morrison. Lloyd Alexander. Susan Cooper. Garth Nix. Jack Gantos. Jeanette Winterson. Ian McEwan. A.S. Byatt. Scott Westerfeld. Justine Larbalestier. Angela Carter. graphic novels like whoa (yay, library!). HarryPottermagicboy! (Andrew, that one was for you.) And many, many, many, many more.
Be your own effin' hero.