Screenwriting, playwriting, prose fiction, literature, philosophy of communication, philosophy of ethics, film, education, rockclimbing, yoga, track, swimming, health, travel, cottage country, entertaining, education, humor/politics, contemporary social issues.
Regina Spektor, Feist, Rufus Wainwright, Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Madness, CCR, Sarah Harmer, Green Day, U2, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Arcade Fire, Martha Wainwright, Simon and Garfunkel, The Cure, The Killers, Coldplay, The Clash, The Ramones, The Beatles, Sarah Slean, Ratatat, Zero 7, Metric, Imogen Heap, Rilo Kiley, Jeff Buckley, oldies, etc...
Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, Ghost World, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, High Fidelity, Sideways, Election, Little Voice, Trainspotting, When Harry Met Sally, Amelie, A Fish Called Wanda, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, Little Miss Sunshine, It's A Wonderful Life, Shop Around the Corner, Life Is Beautiful, American Beauty, Magnolia
I don't have cable. When I do watch television, it's usually a Habs game, or the news.
Authors in no particular order: Charles Bukowski, Douglas Coupland, Wadji Mouawad, Moliere, John Cheever, Franz Kafka, Harold Pinter, Jack Kerouac, Paulo Coelho, Khalil Gibran, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, the Gawain Poet, Charlotte Bronte, Raymond Carver, Samuel Beckett, David Mamet, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Edward Albee, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore...
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