I'd like to meet:
Someone to go to Bikram with me, probably at the Flatiron location. Please!!! and, of course:
Music:
Radiohead Radiohead Radiohead, Appaloosa!, Amy Winehouse, Tricky, bjork, portishead, CAT POWER in da house, pj harvey, sinead o'connor, van morrison, beth orton, phoebe snow, rickie lee jones, joni mitchell, david bowie, rushmore-stealing beauty-crouching tiger hidden dragon- color purple sound tracks, radiohead, lots of drum n bass, as much turntablism as possible, led zepplin, jill scott, annie lennox, bob marley, cocteau twins, the cranberries, the cure, edie brickell, emiliana torrini, evreything but the girl, the fugees, goldie, the yeah yeah yeahs, morcheeba, otis redding, paul simon, pink floyd, andres segovia, the squirrel nut zippers, taj majal, tracy chapman.....
Movies:
Step-brothers, The Darjeeling Limited, No Country for Old Men, Knocked-up, Cache, The Savages, Two Days in Paris, Knocked Up, Little Children, The Life Aquatic, Royal Tenenbaums, Your Friends and Neighbors, Adaptation, Running with Scissors, Napoleon Dynamite, Hero, What About Bob, Cable Guy, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Truman Show (um, i guess i like jim carey a little bit, what can i say, the dude is funny), When the Cats Away, Celestial Clockwork, The Dinner Guest, French Twist, Wet Hot American Summer, Chung King Express, Rushmore, Fargo, Bottle Rocket, anything with Catherine Keener, basically anything with Mila Jovovich (even that atrocity called the 5th element), Usual Suspects, Focus, Run Lola Run, You Can Count on Me, Life of Jesus, Last Temptation of Christ, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, Partygirl (mostly anything with Parker Posey, even that incestuous nightmare, the name of which escapes me), Mean Girls, The Good Girl, American Splendor, Frieda, Being John Malkovich, Go, But I'm a Cheerleader, Devil Wears My Bunghole... This is a very abbreviated list.
Television:
I LOVE JEFF LEWIS WITH ALL MY HEART.
Arrested Development.
Project Runway, Celebrity Rehab, I Love New York, C-Span, L-Word (which I mostly love to hate)Books:
I'm struggling through "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay." Initially, I was told, by Joey Jo Jo, that it is as funny as "The Corrections." Which it is not. So I read the first 350 pages feeling disappointed at not getting the joke. Then it was clarified for me that it is not as funny as "The Corrections." It is just "good." That, I can agree with, its good. I hated "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," I loved "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," so I took "Everything is Illuminated" out of the library, and am loving it too. I loved "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen so much that I bought "Strong Motion," his first novel. I hated every fucking page of it, but finished it anyway. I have a new job at which I read a phone book worth of email, technobullshitthatidontunderstand, powerpoint presentations about seeabove, every day. I havent finished my other book yet, but keep wanting to read Eat To Live again. I loved it so much a few years ago and have started to make the food again.