dancing badly, watching movies, 1966, cuddling, eating excessively, roadtrips, cats, wooden boxes, cats in wooden boxes, making people laugh, chewing gum, romance, call & response in songs, cary grant, unprecedented honesty, the girl group aesthetic, fictionalized history, dystopic novels, protests, pedestrian philosophy, running with foxes, fancy cookies, clean lines, team scrabble.
princess superstar, grace metalious, billy zoom, ice-t, the lady chablis, tallulah bankhead, missy elliott, emma thompson, ralph waldo emerson, geena davis, toni collette, septimus warren smith, harry belafonte, annie oakley, kathy bates, dolly parton, paula poundstone, jennifer coolidge, kate pierson, joyce drake, italo calvino, lesley gore, miranda july, lee miller, little edie.
the adverts, bangs, bikini kill, billy bragg, blondie, the blow, cat power, chumbawamba circa 1987, the clash, defiance ohio, demander, dresden dolls, edith piaf, elton john, erase errata, the ex, exploding hearts, gang of four, gogol bordello, the gossip, guignol, jawbreaker, jonathan richman & the modern lovers, kimya dawson, le tigre, les tetes raides, les thugs, magnetic fields, matt and kim, mirah, neutral milk hotel, nico, nina simone, nina hagen, odetta, peaches, the pretenders, the replacements, the rezillos, rilo kiley, robocop kraus, the shangri-las, the shirelles, sleater-kinney, the smiths, smokey robinson & the miracles, the sonics, sticks & stones, team dresch, the third sex, tracy + the plastics, wanda jackson, world/inferno f.s., x, x-ray spex, zounds, etc etc etc
sunset boulevard is my all-time favorite movie and always will be. but some noteworthies include: amelie, the apartment, arsenic and old lace, being john malkovich, best in show, breakfast at tiffany's, boys on the side, children of paradise, c.r.a.z.y., do the right thing, dr. strangelove, election, fargo, fried green tomatoes, harold and maude, the hours, how to steal a million, i 3 huckabees, kill bill, little miss sunshine, me and you and everyone we know, mermaids, mr. blandings builds his dream house, mulholland drive, muriel's wedding, north by northwest, the rainmaker, sister act, thelma and louise, to live, transamerica, triplets of belleville. last movie i saw in the theaters: be kind rewind
30 rock, absolutely fabulous, antiques roadshow, are you afraid of the dark?, arrested development, the daily show, jeopardy, the L word, law & order, my so-called life, project runway, sarah silverman program, scrubs, seinfeld, the simpsons, strangers with candy, etc.
margaret atwood, paul auster, james baldwin, don delillo, katherine dunn, f. scott fitzgerald, jonathan safran foer, knut hamsun, patricia highsmith, vladimir nabokov, flannery o'connor, orhan pamuk, francoise sagan, david sedaris, john updike, oscar wilde, virginia woolf, etc. currently reading: a dog's ransom by patricia highsmith