Music, movies, television, heroes, and books
- Batman
- A drunk, trusting time traveler with magic teleportation boots
- My own personal dinosaur
ACCEPTED:
Guitars, drums, turntables, MCs, machines, classical instruments, samples, old-timey lingo, heartfelt earnestness, singin'
IGNORED:
Ten-gallon hats, excessive encrustations of bling, bad gothy eye makeup
YES:
Quirkyness, explosions, spaceships, spectacle, character, plot, thought, laughs, beauty
NO:
Fight-scene JiggleCam, pretentiousness, inappropriate predictability, preachiness
ON NOW:
Battlestar Galactica, Mythbusters, Good Eats, Teen Titans, Iron Chef
DEARLY DEPARTED:
Star Trek(s), Firefly, MacGyver, The Real Ghostbusters
NEED TO CHECK OUT:
Lost, 24, The Wire, 3rd season of Enterprise
GIMME:
Inventiveness, aliens, characters, steampunk fantasy, engaging voice, insight without condescension or opacity
FORGET IT:
Cheese, overt self-referential cuteness, stories about (your) alcoholic/abusive/wacky family, anything else I can see on TV and not waste my time with
Jackie Chan, Bruce Wayne, Roast Beef, Warren Ellis, Master Shake