music, fashion and music mags, kitties, walking, apartment hunting on Craigslist, picture taking, TV, CDs, spotting the Beastie Boys in NY, feminism, and Ikea. Not necessarily in that order.
Friends of Friends
Spank Rock, Beirut, Hourly Radio, Scanners, Pony Up, Tapes & Tapes, Human Television, Wolfmother, Be Your Own Pet, We Are Scientists, Beastie Boys, Bikini Kill, Pavement, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sleater-Kinney
M.I.A., Gnarls Barkley, Cee Lo, Sharon Jones, Kanye West, John Legend, Notorious B.I.G., Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Common, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, The Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Nas, Del the Funkee Homosapian, Arrested Development, Wu-Tang, The Streets, Outkast, Public Enemy
Madonna, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, B-52s , Go-Gos, LeTigre, Julie Ruin, Bratmobile, The Gossip, Huggy Bear, Gravy Train!!!, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Blow, Cat Power, Jenny Lewis, Mary Timony, Joanna Newsom, The Breeders, Pixies, Rainer Maria, Stephen Malkmus, Built to Spill, Masters of the Hemisphere, Modest Mouse, Liars , The Rapture, Bloc Party, Decemberists, The Shins, Of Montreal , Death Cab for Cutie, Spoon, Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, Nirvana, Hole, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Dead Milkmen, Sublime
Bob Marley, The Mamas & The Papas, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, Blondie, Patti Smith, The Pretenders, Television, X-Ray Spex, The Smiths, The Stooges, The Slits, Velvet Underground, The Ramones, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Phil Spector, Motown
Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Bjork, Portishead, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair, Cibo Matto, Luscious Jackson, Beck
Snakes on a Plane, Talladega Nights, Everything is Illuminated, Capote, Hotel Rwanda, Motorcycle Diaries, The Pianist, Crash, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Desperately Seeking Susan, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Amelie, The Royal Tenebaums, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Shaun of the Dead, Oceans 11, Dancer in the Dark, Magdalene Sisters, Girl, Interrupted, Saving Private Ryan, Style Wars, Farenheit 911, Dogtown and Z-Boys, But I'm a Cheerleader, 10 Things I Hate About You, High Fidelity, School of Rock, Grease
Law & Order, The Closer, Without a Trace, What Not to Wear, Project Runway, Million Dollar Listing, Flip That House, Fresh Prince, Three's Company
AM New York, L Magazine, Village Voice...
Old faves are "Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk", by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, "Memoirs of a Revolution" by Susan Brownmiller, "Having Faith: an Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood", by Sandra Steingraber, "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn.