new york times sunday crossword, npr in the morning time, japanese tchotchkes, books, music, popular culture from the 60s (music, clothes, movies, furniture i can't afford, cameras, design in general), dada, television trivia from the 70s and 80s, popular culture from now, yoshitomo nara, "god hates japan" a book (in japanese, which i cannot read, but with lots of fun illustrations, and which gabe brought me from osaka) by douglas coupland, ...
tony bourdain
sam from top chef season 2and, for conversation of the foodie variety, michael ruhlman (although, until then, this will do quite well) ruhlman.com
this is a good play list::: dirty harry-gorillaz, disco 2000-pulp, i'll stop the world-tears for fears, 96 tears-? and the mysterians, green onions-booker t and the mgs, nonstop dancing-the jam, head on-pixies, space age lovesong-flock of seagulls, young folks-peter bjorn and john, like dylan in the movies-belle and sebastian, this charming man-the smiths, do you want to-franz ferdinand, true faith, annie-elastica, do the hippogriff-weird sisters, let's go crazy-prince, sexx laws-beck, song 2-blur, rebel rebel-david bowie, in this home on ice-clap your hands say yeah, spirit in the sky-norman greenbaum, close to me-the cure, desperate guys-the faint, c'mere-interpol, trash-suede, papa's got a brand new bag-james brown, don't stop till you get enough-michael jackson, keep on dancing-the ronettes, satisfaction-rolling stones, dirty water-the standells, tainted love-gloria jones, pretty in pink-psychedelic furs, fools gold-stone roses, girls&boys-blur, common people-pulp, you can't hurry love-supremes, dancing in the street-martha reeves and the vandells, town called malice-the jam, just can't enough-nouvelle vague
ciao manhattan!, say anything, die hard with a vengance, being john malkovich, dangerous liasons, the war room, to catch a thief, stand by me, the empire strikes back, bringing up baby, the virgin suicides, harold & maude, ten things i hate about you, sabrina (1954), running on empty, hard target, blade runner, peyton place, the great escape, footloose, the birds, little fauss and big halsy, memento, breakfast at tiffany's, blow up, spirited away, barefoot in the park, pump up the volume, the thomas crown affair (1968), north by northwest, charade, robin hood (1973, disney), pretty in pink, the breakfast club, heathers, to sir ... with love, an american in paris, ocean's eleven (1960), houseboat, singing in the rain, bullit, my own private idaho, weird science, the graduate, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, young guns, flatliners, in the mood for love ...
my all time favorites: buffy, iron chef, barefoot contessa, queer eye for the straight guy, any show that's title begins with law&order, starsky and hutch, the mary tyler moore show, vega$, gilmore girls, prison break, grey's anatomy, brideshead revisited (bbc mini), peyton place, the adventures of pete and pete, max headroom 20 minutes into the future and, of course, pretty much any low-brow teen fare turned out by the CW or Fox ...
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life after god by douglas coupland; brideshead revisited by evelyn waugh; watership down by richard adams; the ground beneath her feet by salman rushdie; kitchen by banana yoshimoto; modern art and popular cuture by kurt varnedoe; essays by tom wolfe ...books i've curled up with this winter: fall on your knees, the devil in the white city, choke, love is a mix tape ...
simon doonan, twiggy, mary tyler moore, coco chanel, carson kresley, santa claus, mary richards and rhoda morgenstern