Finding stories, watching stories, telling stories, recording music and other things, talking about sine waves and the coefficient of absorption. Polar patterns of microphones. Learning about cinema. Actors and their weird ways. Trying to adopt stray animals, but having them run the other way. Punctuation and spelling. Cute boys. Or at least funny boys.
People who like live music that is loud, local, and not necessarily sold through ticketmaster.
The Hereafter, Cursive, Aloha, Early Empire, Aqueduct,The Appleseed Cast, Division Day, Vampire Weekend, Lab Rats, White Rabbits, The Changes, Maps and Atlases, Great Northern, Blonde Redhead, The Good Life, WILCO, Jeff Tweedy, Matt Pond PA, Feist, Criteria, Most Saddle Creek releases, Rilo Kiley, Cat Power, Troubled Hubble, Pixies, Clash, Broken Social Scene, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Talking Heads, Rogue Wave, Wolf Parade, Old Modest Mouse, Sinatra (Nancy and Frank), Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Beastie Boys, Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Ryan Adams, Stevie Wonder, The Cure, Dressy Bessy, this could go on for a really long time, and anyway, you stopped reading a while ago. Oh, and I can't not mention Jeff Buckley. Max Roach, RIP.
Amores Perros, Superbad, Films with good sound design, High Fidelity, Amelie, The Graduate, Wes Anderson movies, Psycho, Mike Nichols movies (and TV series), Citizen Kane(i can't leave it out, sorry), American Splendor, Murderball, Munich, Crumb, The Godfather, I didn't like Easy Rider, is that wrong??? Brazil, The Muppet Movie, Old School, The Graduate, Sexy Beast, Little Miss Sunshine, Shopgirl, Children of Men, The Fisher King, Quinceneara........
I am shamefully addicted to "Grey's Anatomy" and HBO. Flight of the Conchords. Emergency Vet, Animal Interns, any animal-based reality show that will inevitably make me cry and think about becoming a hoarder.
Recently: Devil in the White City, In Cold Blood, Shopgirl, What I Loved, Under the Banner of Heaven, Paul Auster books, Love's Executioner, Lovely Bones The Faves: Grapes of Wrath, Leaves of Grass, Easy Nick Hornby books, Harry Potter, Sedaris and likeminded laughmakers.
My grandma. Mike Nichols. Gary Rydstrom.