Liberal politics, films, true crime, ice cream, TV, music, odd nail polish, awkward conversations, booze, sleep, panic attacks, being smarter than you
THE RAMONES, Nina Simone, Marlene Dietrich, The Pixies, The Breeders, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, The Clash, Ben Lee, Roxy Music, Blake Babies, The Stooges, Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service, Kate Bush, Jeff Buckley, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Billy Idol, Fiona Apple, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, The Runaways, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Black Randy and the Metro Squad, Har Mar Superstar, The Rolling Stones, MC5, My Bloody Valentine, The Pogues, Romeo Void, The Smiths, The Cure, DEVO, Yaz, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, The Who, Brain Eno, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, etc, etc
Plus: Annie Hall, Harold & Maude, Hal Ashby movies, Grey Gardens, 3 Women, Kubrick, anything Altman, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Takashi Miike, Kevin Smith, The Conversation, Network, All The President's Men, 80's teen comedies, Amelie, Rock N' Roll High School, old Joan Crawford pictures, old Bette Davis pictures, anything that has Judd Apatow's name on it, bad slasher flicks, etc.
Mystery Science Theater 3000, Stella, All Law & Order shows, The Office (BBC & US version), AbFab, Dinner for Five, Seinfeld, Gilmore Girls, The OC, Scrubs, Six Feet Under, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Boston Legal, Cold Case Files, Spaced, Forensic Files, American Justice, Entourage, Deadliest Catch, MythBusters, The Sopranos, Arrested Development, Intervention, Dog Bites Man, Big Love, Deadwood, Pilot Season, SCTV, Reno 911!, The Daily Show, Laugh-In, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Studio 60, Heroes, and whatever clip show VH1 is running on an endless loop.
Joan Didion, Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris, Garrison Keillor, David Rakof, James Ellroy, Donna Tartt, Douglas Adams, HP Lovecraft, Michael Chabon, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Bret Easton Ellis, the Harry Potter books, etc etc
Judd Apatow, Diane Keaton, Gilda Radner, Ruth Gordon, Hal Ashby, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Bette Davis, Joan Didion, Dorothy Parker, ordinary people who do the extraordinary