There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
And when she was good
She was very, very good
But when she was bad
She was horrid
Stuff.
Creative types with mind-blowing genius-like abilities:
Dashing, possibly aristocratic English gentlemen:
Rabidly obsessive consumers of ironic pop-culture/indie music lovers:
(If you're all three call me now so we can begin making wedding arrangements immediately.)
I want to be a librarian. I want to check out your books.
In iTunes order: Andrew Bird, Apples In Stereo, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Ash, Audioslave, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beatles, Beck, Beirut, Belle & Sebastian, Belly, Beta Band, Billy Corgan, Bjork, Black Lab, Bloc Party, Blur, Breeders, Bright Eyes, Built To Spill, Bush, Cake, Camera Obscura, The Cardigans, Cat Power, Caviar, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Coldplay, Cursive, The Dandy Warhols, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, The Decemberists, Deftones, Dianogah, Elliott Smith, The Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, The Frames, Franz Ferdinand, Garbage, Giant Drag, Guided By Voices, Heather Nova, Hole, Hum, Idlewild, Incubus, Interpol, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Eat World, Jucifer, Juliana Hatfield, Juliette and the Licks, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Led Zeppelin, Liz Phair, Local H, The Lovelies, Low, Magic Dirt, Mates of State, Matson Jones, Menomena, Metric, Moby, Modest Mouse, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, The New Pornographers, Nick Drake, Nina Gordon, Nirvana, No Doubt, Oasis, The Oohlas, Our Lady Peace, Pearl Jam, Phantom Planet, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, The Polyphonic Spree, The Postal Service, The Presidents of the United States of America, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rainer Maria, Regina Spektor, Reindeer Section, REM, Remy Zero, Rilo Kiley, Ryan Adams, Shellac, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Silversun Pickups, Skunk Anansie, Sleater-Kinney, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Some Girls, Soundgarden, The Sounds, The Strokes, The Subways, Sufjan Stevens, Sullen, Tanya Donelly, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Tegan and Sara, Tenacious D, Throwing Muses, Tori Amos, triplefastaction, TV on the Radio, Verbena, Veruca Salt, Visqueen, Weezer, White Stripes, The Wrens, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo. Any suggestions?
I think I'll watch just about anything. I love good movies. I love mocking bad ones. I'm up for whatever.
Movies I can watch again and again: Bridget Jones' Diary, Garden State, Gone With The Wind, High Fidelity, Lost In Translation, Napolean Dynamite, Pride and Prejudice (BBC)
Alias. Arrested Development. The Colbert Report. Conan O'Brien. Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Daily Show. Family Guy. Gilmore Girls. The Office. The Office: An American Workplace. Scrubs. The Simpsons. Six Feet Under. South Park. There's more. I can't remember. Oh, and loads of British comedy. Can't be arsed to list it all.
Jane Austen. Douglas Coupland. Helen Fielding. Nick Hornby. David Sedaris. Jeanette Winterson. And poetry. Leaves and leaves of confessional poetry.
I got no idols.