celebrity gossip, gossip about people I actually know, everything pop culture, karaoke, Kerastase, TiVo, eating way too quickly, winning contests, free stuff, surveys, lists, cheese, Potbelly's , trivia, doin' the crossword, practicing good oral hygiene (huh huh...oral), movie trailers, parentheses, purses, words, Seattlest , public health, biting, advertising, people-watching, KEXP, off-color/offensive humor, Heeeelium! , wine-tastings, excessive condiment use, irrational and intense dislike of individuals based on little to nothing, keeping up with current events and shit.
I'd like to meet:
M.I.A. and Shakira, so that we may writhe around naked together, to be followed by some intellectual and political discourse.
Music:
Really, I like just about anything that's good. I could list and list and list, but to keep it brief I'll delineate what I listen to as follows---
Now and forever: Pavement, Radiohead, anything that stirs the spirits. Everything I needed to know I learned from The Arcade Fire. "Awesome."
A little while ago: Bjork, Cinerama, Squarepusher, Flaming Lips, Motown, Built to Spill, Princess Superstar, The New Pornographers, The Who, Guided By Voices, mid-90s Britpop, The Shins, Wilco, Kanye, Broken Social Scene, Franz Ferdinand, A.C. Newman, Magnetic Fields, The Concretes, Manitoba, M83.
In the less-distant past: The Thermals, TV on the Radio, The Walkmen, The Stills, stellastarr*, The Killers, Ambulance LTD, Rilo Kiley, Interpol (especially "Evil"), Bright Eyes, Kings of Convenience, M. Ward, The Dears, M.I.A., Mando Diao, The Futureheads, The Go! Team, Spoon, Bloc Party. The last Fiona Apple album ain't bad neither. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Sufjan Stevens, The Unicorns, Wolf Parade, Dungen, Sigur Ros, Jamie Lidell, new New Pornographers, Animal Collective, Art Brut, Irving, Islands, new M. Ward, The Grates, Girl Talk, Kristoffer Ragnstam, Regina Spektor, Dr. Dog, Mew, Figurines, Emily Haines, new TVotR, Forward Russia!, Ladyhawk, +/-, The Little Ones, Joanna Newsom, Scanners.
Lately: Of Montreal, Annuals, Scissors for Lefty, Mates of State.
Movies:
Godfather(s) I+II, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Splendor, Y Tu Mama Tambien, City of God, Moulin Rouge (first 45 minutes in particular), Lost in Translation, You Can Count on Me, The Graduate, Annie Hall, Fight Club, Three Kings, Stander, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Junebug, The Squid and the Whale, Mysterious Skin, Hustle and Flow, March of the Penguins, Darwin's Nightmare, any: Kaufman/Jonze collaboration, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson.
Television:
The Daily Show/Colbert Report, Chappelle's Show, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Scrubs, Buffy, Arrested Development (the smartest, funniest show on TV ever, hands-fucking-down), Da Ali G Show (especially Borat segments), Six Feet Under, Lost, ATHF, Project Runway, The Wire, Deadwood (aka "Everybody's a Cocksucker"). Guilty pleasure: Law and Order of any variety. The O'Reilly Factor if I wanna get mad.
Books:
Haruki Murakami, David Sedaris, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Chuck Klosterman, Dave Eggers, Neal Pollack, Michael Chabon, Eric Schlosser, Jared Diamond, David Rees , McSweeney's ( John Moe! ), Vice, Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, NYT op-ed, the New Yorker. Additionally, I spend way too much time looking words up in the dictionary.
Heroes:
We can be heroes, just for one day.
