some things i enjoy:
joan cusak. she has a house down the street from me, but i haven't seen her around, yet. i should make her cookies.
aimee mann
air
alex caress
alexi murdoch
anathallo
andrew bird
ani difranco
arab strap
the arcade fire
architecture in helsinki
badly drawn boy
beck
ben folds
bill frisell
bjork
bloc party
bob schneider
british sea power
broken social scene
bruce springsteen
the cancer conspiracy
caspian
charlie hunter
clap your hands say yeah
coldplay
colin hay
counting crows (first 3 albums)
david gray
the decemberists
denison witmer
do make say think
eels
elvis costello
erykah badu
feist
the flaming lips
fred eaglesmith
great lake swimmers
gregor samsa
hum
ida
the innocence mission
iron and wine
jackson browne
jordan caress
joseph arthur
josh caress
kent
m83
the magnetic fields
the mars volta
matt pond pa
menomena
mike doughty
miles davis
modest mouse
mogwai
m. ward
my brightest diamond
the national
neil young
neko case
nick drake
okkervil river
palomino
penguin cafe orchestra
peter gabriel
pete yorn
the prayers and tears of arthur digby sellers
pulp
red house painters
remy zero
rufus wainwright
ryan adams
the secret machines
the shins
sigur ros
sloan
stars
stars of track and field
sufjan stevens
sun kil moon
tom petty
tori amos
van morrison
waking vision trio
wilco
yo la tengo
youth group
12 monkeys
21 grams
airplane (the first one)
almost famous
amelie
amores perros
benny and joon
big fish
the big lebowski
billy madison
the butterfly effect
chasing amy
children of men
a christmas story
city of god
clerks
curly sue
dancer in the dark
dirty pretty things
donnie darko
edward scissorhands
elephant
elizabethtown
empire records
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
ferris bueller's day off
fight club
the game
garden state
goonies
harry potter movies
high fidelity
irreversible
it's a wonderful life
jersey girl
labyrinth
legend
l.i.e.
the life aquatic with steve zissou
lord of the rings trilogy
lost in translation
man on the moon
memento
motorcycle diaries
mst3k
napoleon dynamite
nightmare before christmas
ocean's 11
office space
one crazy summer
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
the pianist
playing by heart
the princess bride
pulp fiction
reality bites
the return to oz
royal tenenbaums
say anything
secretary
se7en
sexy beast
the shining
sideways
snatch
suicide kings
supersize me
swingers
talk to her
traffic
true romance
the united states of leland
wet, hot, american summer
the wizard of oz
... and many, many more
well, we have about 10 channels that come in clear, so i mainly watch nbc for "thursday night comedy done right" and "studio 60," if it hasn't been canceled. and i'm trying to finish the last season of "six feet under."
also, i find myself watching game shows often - i like when i guess correctly, it makes me feel smarter.
i'm continuously reading:
parenting magazine
esopus magazine
midwest living magazine
favorite books include:
'house of leaves'
(mark danielewski)
'america - the book'
(jon stewart and the writers of the daily show)
'the know it all: one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world'
(a.j. jacobs)
'the princess bride'
(william goldman)
'the age of spiritual machines: when computers exceed human intelligence'
(ray kurzweil)
'corelli's mandolin'
(louis de bernieres)
'how to fix damn near everything'
(franklynn peterson)
- i'm positive that book will one day save my life
harry potter
favorite authors include:
david sedaris
david foster wallace
milan kundera
oscar wilde
shakespeare
elderly couples who are still in as love with eachother as the day they met.
(yeah, i'm sappy like that.)