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organic and fair trade, yoga, museums, nikukyu, cheese, public radio/tv, linguaphilia, cross culturalism, haunting dirty dive bars with performance space and sketchy bathrooms (RIP Talking Head Club), independent music and film, travel, Southeast Asia, Czechness, francophiles, workplace politics/anthropology, reading, spas, human rights, civil liberties, progressive politics, ACLU, LGBT, genderqueers/queers/genderfuckers, deviants, dissecting pop culture, following Gomez when they tour Stateside, law, the legal profession and related bullshitting, photography, some but not all art, snark, real estate.
francophiles, cinephiles, bibliophiles, homophiles, linguaphiles, philophiles, oenophiles, other sorts of hedonists. People who have a variety of interests, do interesting things, and have interesting opinions that are informed by sources other than Fox or anything else Rupert Murdoch-owned.
eMusic . And RFI. Heavy rotation on the player this month: Blonde Redhead, Devo, Edith Piaf, Hip Hop Hoodios, Marmoset, Os Mutantes, Peter Kater, and Sara Valenzuela
2007: La Môme (La Via en Rose in the US), La Vie des Autres, Ensemble C'est Tout, Banished, Black Light/White Rain. I also thought Once was okay plot-wise, but the music was sort of grating, which doesn't bode well for a film that bills itself as a modern rock film musical.
For 2006: Little Miss Sunshine, Labyrinthe de Pan, Zwartboek, Total Denial (HRW), and The Forest for the Trees (HRW). I also had a soft spot for Akeelah and the Bee.
Otherwise: Secretary, Donnie Darko, and anything with a Gyllenhaal; Bad Education, Y Tu Mama Tambien, and anything with Gael Garcia Bernal; You, Me, and Everyone We Know; LOTR; Jeux d'Enfants and anything with Marion Cotillard (sorry, I like her bold, crazy quirkiness and kind-of-bizarre roles more than Tautou's subtle romantic comedicness); Ma Vie En Rose; Human Rights Watch Film Festival Movies .
Lots of CNN and TV5 these days. Susan Mayer is the new, married Carrie Bradshaw. And I hate them both but nonetheless love Desperate Housewives, Season 1, discs 3, 4, and 5. Marcia Cross as Bree and Nicollete Sheridan as Edie are my favorites. I like most Lost episodes. And that scene from Entourage where Ari goes nuts and fires the mailroom boy in lieu of the guy whose office the mailroom boy is standing in. That was a classic moment. And things that involve pubic hair.
Currently reading: March by Geraldine Brooks, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, La Peste par Albert Camus
Overall: Tipping the Velvet, Life of Pi, Wicked, The God of Small Things, Middlesex, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and the GossipGirls series but only in French
Aung San Su Kyi , Ka Hsaw Wa , Ken Saro-Wiwa , and Anonymous Lawyer