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"1. Money.
2. Alcohol.
3. What you do with No. 1 when No. 2 gets hold of you.
4. And vice versa.
5. Running.
6. Falling over.
7. Fat people.
8. People in fancy clothes.
9. People who talk funny.
10. Politicians who get away with it.
11. Politicians who don't.
12. Prigs.
13. Patsies.
14. Coffee.
15. Marriage.
16. Gambling. (Note: Try not to confuse this with No. 15.)
17. Misunderstandings. (Ditto.)
18. Mussolini.
19. Hitler.
20. A lion with its head in your lap."
- Anthony Lane on things that Preston Sturges was amused by.
I don't understand why there aren't questions about food on here. Who's not interested in food?
My favorite local restaurants are De La Torre's, Havana Rumba, Kashmir, Lynn's Paradise Cafe, North End Cafe, Pita Delites, Primo, Ramsi's, Santa Fe Grill and Toast.
What about art? I like some local visual artists, including Angela Raines, Carly Whitmer, Carrie Neumayer, C.M. and Grace Laster, Crow Hollister, Doug Turner, Gina Moeller, Gina Portelli, Hillary Harrison, Julie Leidner, Kathleen Lolley, Kenny Andreozzi, Letitia Quesenberry, Lindsey Dobson, Mark Anthony Mulligan, Mary Yates, Sarah Lyon, Shannon Kempf, Ted Nathanson and Thea Lura.
My favorite current comedians include Andy Kindler, Chris Rock, Cynthia Levin, Don Rickles, Jarrett Grode, Martha Kelly, Patton Oswalt, Steven Wright, Tom Sharpe and Zach Galifianakis.
Music:
Bonnie Prince Billy, Catherine Irwin, Elephant Micah, Jamie Barnes, Joe Manning, The Mack, My Morning Jacket, The Pennies, Second Story Man, Shipping News, Slint, Wax Fang, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Billie Holiday, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Calexico, Cat Power, Chet Baker, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doc Watson, Elliott Smith, The Flaming Lips, Frank Sinatra, Fugazi, The Go-Betweens, Gram Parsons, Guns N' Roses, Iris DeMent, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Los Lobos, Love, Low, Mary Timony, The Mekons, Merle Haggard, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Modest Mouse, Neil Young, Neko Case, Nina Simone, Nirvana, Patsy Cline, The Pogues, Pulp, Richard Buckner, Roy Orbison, Scott Walker, Sebadoh, Sly and the Family Stone, Smog, Songs: Ohia, Sonic Youth, Talk Talk, Thin Lizzy, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, The Velvet Underground, War, Wilco, X
Movies:
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Almost Famous, Annie Hall, Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Big Wednesday, Blue Velvet, Borat, Charlotte's Web (1973), Chinatown, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Croupier, Dead Man, La Dolce Vita, Drugstore Cowboy, Edward Scissorhands, Election, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Faces, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gas Food Lodging, Ghost World, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Hit (1984), The Long Goodbye, Lost in Translation, Mask, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, A Mighty Wind, Minnie and Moskowitz, Morvern Callar, Mr. Jealousy, The Muppet Movie, A Night at the Opera, Night Moves, Office Space, Paper Moon, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Rushmore, Schizopolis, Secretary, Sideways, Sweet and Lowdown, Taxi Driver, Touch of Evil, True Stories, Wet Hot American Summer, Wild at Heart, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Y Tu Mama Tambien
Television:
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Late Show with David Letterman
Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, I'm Alan Partridge, The J.P. Patches Show, The Muppet Show, Wonder Showzen
Arrested Development, Daria, Degrassi Junior High, Fraggle Rock, Greg the Bunny, Home Movies, King of the Hill, The Office (BBC), The Simpsons (seasons 1 - 8 only), The Street (1988), The Wonder Years
Freaks and Geeks, Friday Night Lights, My So - Called Life
China Beach, Crime Story (first season only), Homicide: Life on the Street (first 6 seasons only), Oz, The Sopranos, Under Suspicion, The Wire, Wiseguy
Books:
Adrian Tomine, Art Spiegelman, Ben Katchor, Bob Fingerman, Charles Schultz, Chester Brown, Chris Ware, Craig Thompson, Daniel Clowes, Drew Friedman, Garry Trudeau, Harvey Pekar, James Kochalka, Jeffrey Brown, Jessica Abel, Joe Sacco, John Porcellino, Jordan Crane, Jules Feiffer, Marjane Satrapi, Peter Bagge, Raymond Briggs, Robert Crumb, Terry Moore, Will Eisner
Charles Willeford, Chuck Palahniuk, David Sedaris, E.B. White, Flannery O'Connor, Francesca Lia Block, Franz Kafka, Hunter S. Thompson, John Fante, Jorge Luis Borges, Judy Blume, Kurt Vonnegut, Louis Sachar, Mark Twain, Milan Kundera, Pauline Kael, Raymond Carver, Roald Dahl, Sarah Vowell, Terry Southern, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov
Heroes:
No, but I want everyone who knew them to remember Arthur Montmorency, Charlie Shannon, Dave Feinman, David Sauter, Dylan Prott, Kim Sampson, Matt Mason and everyone else who left too soon.
