I like pretty things.
Jolly good sports.
madness, arab strap, billie holiday, neva dinova, otis redding, echo and the bunnymen, merle haggard, lou reed, the neutral milk hotel, bonnie prince billy, cat power, death from above 1979, EODM, mogwai, kings of leon, the smiths, husky rescue, the cure, grizzly bear, my bloody valentine, fujiya & miyagi, the ladybug transistor, dogs die in hot cars, chuck berry, the psychadelic furs, the fucking am, arctic monkeys, QOTSA, band of horses, elliott smith, joy division, erlend oye, lucinda williams, the brian jonestown massacre, devo, my morning jacket, samuel barber, patsy cline, nick cave, interpol, fela kuti , afrika 70/egypt 80, nirvana, pink grease, the magnetic fields, p:ano, etta james, new order, iron and wine, velvet underground, the mountain goats, delgados, bat for lashes, m83, wilco, lansing-dreiden, magnolia electric co., stephen malkmus, ye-ye, low, the sea peoples...
Rabbit Proof Fence, The Professional, Half Nelson, Entre Nous, Days of Glory, Rushmore, Spinal Tap, Z, True Romance, The Deer Hunter, Loves of a Blonde, My Beautiful Laundrette, Children of the Corn, Brazil, Ran, In the Mood for Love, A Ma Soeur!, The Hustler, 8 1/2, Volver, The Last Unicorn, Gigi, Legend, The Apartment, Ikiru, La Haine, Breaking the Waves, The Man Who Copied, City of God, Gilda, The Lady Eve, Dune, Willow, The Awful Truth, Sansho the Bailiff, Hardware Wars, Little Miss Sunshine, Strange Brew, Ninotchka, The City of Lost Children, Strictly Ballroom, Ghost World, The African Queen, Bloody Sunday, Sweeney Todd, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood.
I liked Rome a lot. But since it's over now, I'm at a loss. Friday Night Lights. Masterpiece Theater. Absolutely Fabulous. Upstairs Downstairs. 30 Rock. Keeping Up Appearances. Fraggle Rock. The Muppet Show. LA Ink. The Office. The Discovery Channel. The History Channel.
I've adored these for a good long while, but I'm always looking for more to love. Feel free to leave suggestions. No Joke.Dream of the Red Chamber, Tsao Hsueh-Chin. Cities of Salt, 'Abd al-Rahman Munif. The Violent Bear it Away, Flannery O' Connor. Ulysses, James Joyce. The Floating Opera..., John Barth. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris. The Ambassadors, Henry James. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole. Paris France, Gertrude Stein. Anything by either Vonnegut or Salinger. The Gastronomical Me, MFK Fisher. The Marrow of Tradition, Charles Chesnutt. The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes. My Life, Anton Chekhov. Roald Dahl-- especially his autobiographies, Kawabata Yasunari, Gogol, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Barthelme, Philip Roth, Eudora Welty, Charles Bukowski, J.P. Donleavy, Peter Carey (thanks, b), Anne Sexton, Robert Musil...
People who can make me feel something I wouldn't normally feel, see what I wouldn't ordinarily see, and remember what I'd really rather forget.