I'm down with pretty much anything and everything. At least once.
Can't think of anyone.
The Pixies are probably as close to a favorite band as I've got. Random favorites... both old and new... in alphabetical order (of course). Subject to change.
22-20s, 7 Seconds, Andrew Bird, Richard Ashcroft, Bauhaus, Belle & Sebastian, Blackalicious, Black Flag, Black Tie Dynasty, Bloc Party, The Blood Arm, The Blood Brothers, Blur, David Bowie, Brand New Heavies, Broadcast, James Brown, Laura Cantrell, James Carr, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Kasey Chambers, The Charlatans, The Clash, Patsy Cline, Jarvis Cocker, Coldplay, The Communards, Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw, Crowded House, The Cure, Curve, Cut Chemist, Bobby Darin, Miles Davis, Death From Above 1979, de la Soul, DefDFires, Depeche Mode, Die Warzau, The Doves, The Duke Spirit, Duran Duran, Eagles of Death Metal, Earth Wind and Fire, Cesaria Evora, The Faint, The Farm, The Features, Fishbone, Foundry Field Recordings, Franz Ferdinand, Aretha Franklin, The Fruit Bats, Fugazi, Garbage, Marvin Gaye, Girl in a Coma, Glasvegas, The Golden Republic, Goldfrapp, Holly Golightly, Al Green, Ted Hawkins, The Helio Sequence, Helmet, Lena Horne, The Hush Sound, Husker Du, Ice Cube, Interpol, INXS, Iron & Wine, Wanda Jackson, The Jacksons/Jackson 5/Michael Jackson, Etta James, The Jayhawks, Jenny Lewis/The Watson Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Journey, Joy Division, Jurassic 5, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, The Kills, The Killers, The Kinks, The Knife, Ray LaMontagne, LCD Soundsystem, John Legend, Louis XIV, Love and Rockets, Lush, Maria McKee, Madeleine Peyroux, Madonna, Maktub, Mando Diao, Mary's Danish, Tift Merritt, Midnight Movies, Minor Threat, The Mission, Molotov, Bob Mould, Peter Murphy, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, The New Pornographers, Nine Inch Nails, Noah & The Whale, Operation Ivy, Outkast, Ozomatli, Pavement, Ann Peebles, Liz Phair, The Pipettes, Pixies, The Police, Elvis Presley, Prince, Pulp, Queen, The Raconteurs, Radio 4, Radiohead, The Ramones, Rancid, The Rapture, Razorlight, REM, Rilo Kiley, Robbers on High Street, Robyn, Run-DMC, Sahara Hotnights, Santogold, Scissor Sisters, The Secret Machines, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, The Shins, Shout Out Louds, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Siouxie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Sixteen Horsepower, Sloan, The Smiths, Jimmy Somerville, The Sounds, South, Stars, Stellastarr*, Angie Stone, The Stone Roses, The Subways, Suede, Sugar, Sun Volt, Sunny Day Sets Fire, The Supremes, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, The Tender Box, Texas, The Ting Tings, Travis, Tricky, U2, Uncle Tupelo, Under the Influence of Giants, Vampire Weekend, The Velvelettes, Velvet Underground, Verve, VHS or Beta, Rufus Wainwright, Chris Walla, Kim Weston, Wilco, Kelly Willis, Wolfman, Wolfmother, Stevie Wonder, Wu Tang, X, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Books and music come before most movies. I do have some favorites though. The Women, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Brick, Roman Holiday, Garden State, Rope, Blue Velvet, The Untouchables, Gallipoli (yes, Gavin, from Mrs. MacKenzie), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Donnie Darko, Swingers, The Usual Suspects, The Shining, All About Eve, The Godfather, anything with Cary Grant (especially Charade and Philadelphia Story), and Gross Pointe Blank.
I'll watch it if it's on. I'll watch it if I'm bored. I am so easy to entertain. But I don't have many favorites.
Alias. Buffy. Firefly. Gilmore Girls. Sports Night. Twin Peaks. Veronica Mars. Wonderfalls. Maybe Pushing Daisies? If it doesn't get cancelled.
There could be more, but stupid networks have a tendency to cancel good shows before they even have time to build a following. Bastards.
No matter what I put here, I know I'm leaving something amazing off. My favorite book of all time- mostly for sentimental reasons- is Watership Down. Though a close second (for non-sentimental reasons) is Geek Love.The classics. The His Dark Materials Trilogy from Philip Pullman, Snow Crash, Starting Out in the Evening, Towing Jehovah, The Fig Eater, Carter Beats the Devil, The God of Small Things, Shadow of the Wind, House of Leaves, anything by Michael Connelly, The Chronicles of Narnia, Almost Heaven, The Alienist, Sexing the Cherry, The Eight, The Secret History, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, Georges Simenon, Blood Meridien, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Harry Potter, Troll: A Love Story, David Sedaris, Chuck Palahniuk, pretty much anything McSweeney's-related, Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine, Water For Elephants, Rick Moody (with the exception of The Black Veil), most anything published by NYRB, Straight Man, Philip Jose Farmer, Cruddy, Mason's Retreat, Gun With Occasional Music, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Tolkien, Plainsong, Jasper Fforde, The Deadly Percheron, Talk Before Sleep, Palimpsest, Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Jimmy Corrigan, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Mo Willems rocks!), Bangkok 8, Ellen Gilchrist, Memoirs of a Geisha, Stephen Greenleaf, James Ellroy, A World Lit Only by Fire, Shirley Jackson, and David Foster Wallace.
People who help and care for others without thinking of personal gain.