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Things I like: my friends, literature, cinema, progressive politics, photography, renting way too many DVDs, Apple Mac, salmon
Things I don't like: crowded places, voluntary ignorance, sleep deprivation, when anyone/anything makes my world unbeautiful, like that awful song in the commercial for Humira
“...it just doesn’t get more noir than this.†Late at night in a city celebrated for its criminal leanings...in this case, Chicago. Guy getting roughed up. Suddenly the hero shows up out of nowhere to save the day...or who knows? Maybe he’s going to help smack the guy around. It’s noir, after all. The genre of long shadows and multiple possibilities. And if there’s one thing I’m into, it’s multiple possibilities.
Ryan Adams, Air, The Album Leaf, Tori Amos, Annie, Fiona Apple, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Bjork, Blondie, Blur, David Bowie, Bright Eyes, Jeff Buckley, David Byrne, Johnny Cash, Tracy Chapman, Cheap Trick, Patsy Cline, Coldplay, Counting Crows, The Cranberries, The Cure, Howie Day, Death Cab for Cutie, Ani DiFranco, Dressy Bessy, Duran Duran, Missy Elliott, The Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, Fugees, Garbage, Judy Garland, Marvin Gaye, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, David Gray, Macy Gray, Green Day, Emmylou Harris, PJ Harvey, Imogen Heap, Hole, Billie Holiday, Billy Idol, Interpol, Chris Isaak, Elton John, Janis Joplin, Joy Division, Keane, The Killers, k.d. lang, Led Zeppelin, Ben Lee, Annie Lennox, Ludacris, Madonna, Stephen Malkmus, Aimee Mann, John Mayer, Mazzy Star, Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Milosh, Kylie Minogue, Joni Mitchell, Alanis Morissette, Modest Mouse, Van Morrison, Jason Mraz, Nada Surf, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, Sinead O'Connor, Outkast, Patrick Park, Tom Petty (solo and otherwise), Liz Phair, Pink Floyd, Cole Porter, Portishead, The Postal Service, The Pretenders, Radiohead, Ramones, R.E.M., Lou Reed, Damien Rice, The Rolling Stones, Seal, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Simon and Garfunkel, The Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, Britney Spears, Igor Stravinsky, Sublime, Le Tigre, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Travis, U2, The Velvet Underground, Rufus Wainwright, Weezer, Kanye West, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young
2001: A Space Odyssey, 28 Days Later, About a Boy, About Schmidt, Adaptation, The Age of Innocence, Agnes Browne, Almost Famous, Amelie, American Beauty, Angela's Ashes, Angels in America, The Apartment, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Art School Confidential, Batman Begins, Beauty and the Beast, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Being Julia, The Big Lebowski, Billy Elliot, Blue Velvet, Boogie Nights, The Bourne Supremacy, Boys Don't Cry, Bowling for Columbine, Breakfast on Pluto, Breaking the Waves, Brokeback Mountain, But I'm a Cheerleader, Cabaret, Chicago, A Clockwork Orange, Clueless, The Company, The Constant Gardener, Cookie's Fortune, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Crash (Cronenberg), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Dancer in the Dark, Dead Poets Society, The Devil Wears Prada, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Election, Elephant, Elizabeth, Elizabethtown, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everyone Says I Love You, Everything Is Illuminated, eXistenZ, E.T., Far From Heaven, Fargo, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gattaca, Get Real, Ghost World, Go, Gone with the Wind, Good Night, And Good Luck, Happy Endings, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Heathers, Heavenly Creatures, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, House of Sand and Fog, The House of Yes, Howl's Moving Castle, I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, The Ice Storm, In America, The Incredibles, The Italian Job (remake), Junebug, Kicking and Screaming, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, Peter Jackson's King Kong, Labyrinth, Lady and the Tramp, The Laramie Project, The Last Days of Disco, The Life Aquatic, Like Water for Chocolate, The Little Mermaid, Little Miss Sunshine, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lovely and Amazing, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, LA Confidential, Lost in Translation, Love and Other Catastrophes, The Machinist, Magnolia, Match Point, Mean Girls, Meet Me in St. Louis, Monster, Moulin Rouge!, Mulholland Drive, My Mother Likes Women, My Own Private Idaho, Mysterious Skin, The Myth of Fingerprints, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Office Space, The Opposite of Sex, Ordinary People, Personal Velocity, The Piano, Pi, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pleasantville, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Prime, Princess Mononoke, Proof, Raising Arizona, Reality Bites, Rebel Without a Cause, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Saved!, ...Say Anything, Serenity, se7en, Shadow of the Vampire, Shaun of the Dead, The Shining, Shopgirl, Short Cuts, Sideways, The Silence of the Lambs, Spider-man 2, Spirited Away, The Squid and the Whale, Star Wars (Episodes III-IV-V), Superman Returns, Supersize Me, Tarnation, Trainspotting, Transamerica, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Thank You for Smoking, Thelma & Louise, The Thomas Crown Affair (remake), Three Kings, Three Ninjas, Thumbsucker, To Die For, The 24th Day, Twin Peaks: Fire, Walk with Me, The UP Series, Urbania, A Very Long Engagement, Velvet Goldmine, Vertigo, V for Vendetta, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wilde, Wild Reeds, The Wizard of OZ, Wonder Boys
24, Food Network, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, Veronica Mars, Weeds
Edward Abbey, John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood, Joseph Campbell, Neal Cassady, Michael Chabon, Chris Claremont, Michael Cunningham, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Doty, T.S. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jonathan Safran Foer, Neil Gaiman, Allen Ginsberg, Herman Hesse, Nick Hornby, Ted Hughes, James Joyce, DH Lawrence, Harper Lee, Janet Malcolm, Stephane Mallarme, Frank McCourt, Frank Miller, Marianne Moore, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, Anais Nin, Frank OHara, Sylvia Plath, Marcel Proust, Adrienne Rich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Tom Robbins, J.K. Rowling, Jelaluddin Rumi, Ann Sexton, William Shakespeare, Curtis Sittenfeld, Jon Stallworthy, Mark Strand, Wallace Stevens, Wislawa Szymborska, John Kennedy Toole, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Diane Wakoski, Edmund White, Oscar Wilde, August Wilson, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats
These lists grow, of course.
Peter Parker, Jamie Madrox, Meryl Streep, Anderson Cooper, Jack Bauer, Nancy Pelosi