typewriters, documentaries, playgrounds at night, npr, going to the movies [especially at the new beverly or the egyptian theatre], making video projects, home recording, scrabble, trivial pursuit, home haircuts, sharks, karaoke, comics, zines, coffee, photobooths, polaroids, this american life, two-player pinball, ms. pacman, 4tracks, guitars, basses, showgirls, letters, walking in LA, mario party, the smells of coconut and vanilla, knee socks, sweatbands, tattoos, pale skin, crosswords, seedy carnivals, aquariums, medical encyclopedias, larry david, the color pink, good scary movies, love songs, all star lanes, spontaneous roadtrips, diy, riot grrrl nostalgia, being a complete and utter sap, embracing my oklahoma roots, wearing green shirts, poker, shopping malls and mall culture
the stars, darren hanlon, the cure, the smiths, interpol, my bloody valentine, delta dart, secret stars, bikini kill, replacements, autoclave, ida, camera obscura, neil diamond, heavens to betsy, magnetic fields, mary lou lord, neil diamond, bratmobile, azure ray, tiger trap, ramones, red house painters, excuse 17, old sleater-kinney, joy division, tattletale, old jimmy eat world, evergreen, mineral, slowdive, joan jett, runaways, elvis costello, old rainer maria, phil collins, the shaggs, weakerthans, depeche mode, dean martin, dolly parton, x-ray spex, new order, new bad things, the thermals!, galaxie 500, spinanes. flavor flav's solo album
annie hall, manhattan, ladies and gentleman: the fabulous stains, stevie, tootsie, george washington, all the real girls, ghost world, scenes from a marriage, bicycle thief, rain, show me love, hell house, the warriors, the hills have eyes (original), hands on a hard body, pretty in pink, time indefinite, trust, you can count on me, SHOWGIRLS, lost in translation, flirting, taking of pelham 1, 2,3, badlands, 400 blows, harold and maude, minnie and moskowitz, woman under the influence, devil in daniel johnston, superstar--todd haynes, alice doesn't live here anymore, most frederick wiseman.
bands on the run (best reality show in the history of television), curb your enthusiasm, six feet under, felicity, freaks and geeks, project runway, the office (uk version), old gilmore girls, degrassi jr. high, 90210, how i met your mother
what we talk about when we talk about love [all raymond carver, really], franny and zooey, in cold blood, easy riders, raging bulls, biographies on woody allen, other nerdy film books, word freak, graphic novels/comics--goodbye chunky rice, blankets, eightball, ghost world, optic nerve, maus, ariel schrag stuff, rosemary wells picture books. i mostly read magazines anymore because i don't have time for anything else: filmmaker, bust, bitch, readymade, atomic ranch, moviemaker, and of course, us weekly.
ross mcelwee, steve james, frederick wiseman