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Except for opera, modern jazz and genital hip-hop, I can listen to almost anything... faves include: Nick Drake, Maria Taylor, Panic! At The Disco, Catherine Wheel, Stina Nordenstam, ebtg, Tracey Thorn, PSB, Azure Ray, Mika, Deb Talan, Postal Service, Stacy Smith, The Shins, Busted, Death Cab For Cutie, Cute Is What We Aim For, Cocteau Twins, Joan Jett, Depeche Mode, Underworld, Red House Painters, David Usher, Prince, Elliott Smith, Bob Mould, and almost everything new wave!
No way I can list ALL my faves but some are: almost anything John Hughes, Donnie Darko, E.T., Sab Sanit, The Others, Bringing Up Baby, Unforgiven, Lost In Translation, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Beautiful Thing, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Philadelphia Story, Brokeback Mountain, Wonder Boys, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Dark City, You Can Count On Me, Aliens, Voodoo Academy, Grosse Point Blank, Grease, Croupier, Almost Famous, Lord Of The Rings and too many many more but will add as I think of them...
Current must-sees include: Lost, Scrubs, The Simpsons, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, Heroes, Top Chef, Family Guy, Grey's Anatomy, Raines, and Project Runway. Hall of fame includes: My So-Called Life, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Arrested Development and Freaks & Geeks.
Well, Shadowland by Peter Straub is my favorite book of all-time... after that there are way too many but recently I loved Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and almost anything by A.M. Homes and Michael Chabon will be found in my hand at some point.
I have only two heroes right now: one.org is changing things for the better and that is heroic; the other knows who he is and he is just a hero for being himself and hanging in there. SYBLY :)