Passion and laziness. Brillance and forgetfullness. Audiophile and celebrity gossip whore.
Food, wine, ballet, tap, music, design, sewing, knitting, art, sailing, gelato, sleeping, lawn gnomes, history, being Scottish, libraries, museums, tea, Italian language and culture, my cat, dive bars, late night eats, cheese, lunchboxes, boys, Oakland A's, entrepreneurship/small business, pop culture, pop music, Swatch watches, college basketball, being crafty, Go Fug Yourself, the brain, college radio stations, radio dj-ing, vintage clothes, housewears, cooking, travel, loyalty, Elvis Costello, Rennie Mackintosh, Cockeyed.com, Robin Hood, Atari, reproductive rights, public radio, Perez Hilton, crowd induced claustrophobia, concerts, labor rights, gossip columns, robots, free press, early communism, beer, cartoons, shoes, reading, my friends and family, the beach, 1966 Volkswagen Bugs, missing you. All at the same time.
Bill Moyers. I have never heard a person speak so eloquently and truthfully in all my life. And he dress like my dad.
Forever and Always: Elvis Costello, Deathray, Sloan, The New Pornographers, Neko Case, DCFC, Postal Service, The Kinks, Wilco, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Decemberists, The Bens, Belle & Sebastian, all old soul (and new soul that sounds old), pub rock, power pop, glam, shoegazer, good old punk, good new punk, underground Canadian bands, West Coast local bands, Glasgow scene, electro sex pop, covers, duets, non-crap.
Current Raves: The Fucking Eagles, Kind Hearts & Coronets, Foals and Keren ann
Indie, cult, dark comedies, cheesy horror movies, foreign, Woody Allen, Coen Brothers, documentaries, mockumentaries, Film Noir, really dumb but totally hysterical movies. And Frankenfish will always hold a special place in my heart.
Flight of The Conchords, John Safran vs. God, The Pick-up Artist, Bill Maher, Bill Moyers, Now, Big Ideas for a Small Planet, No Reservations, Big Love, Weeds.
I'm currently in the middle of The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
NASA Life Science engineers (the few that are left), librarians, and people who still read the printed newspaper. As for real people with real names; Eric J. Lawrence, Nic Harcourt, Ann Richards, and Jon Stewart for not always playing nice.