Going to shows, knitting, reading (huge bookworm...libraries are one of my FAVORITE places), drinking beer, watching reality television, cooking, going to the movies, collecting hello kitty crap, thesuperficial.com
The more I learn about people, the more I like books.
Sleater Kinney, Le Tigre, Pinback, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Magnetic Fields, The Weakerthans, Neutral Milk Hotel, Treepeople, Jawbreaker, Arcade Fire, Liz Phair, Bikini Kill, Broken Social Scene, Bloc Party, Tulleycraft, Pavement, Weezer, Dinosaur Jr, Bright Eyes, The Pixies, Interpol, Desparecidos, Clem SnideSOME OF THE BEST ALBUMS EVER: Theres Nothing Wrong with Love-BUILT TO SPILL/ Lonesome Crowded West-MODEST MOUSE/Icky Mettle-ARCHERS OF LOAF/ Technique-NEW ORDER/The Hot Rock-SLEATER KINNEY/ Slanted and Enchanted-PAVEMENT/ Reject All-American-BIKINI KILL/ Real Life Story of Teenage Rebellion-WESTON/ Queen Elvis-ROBYN HITCHOCK/Exile in Guyville-LIZ PHAIR/3 Feet High and Rising-DE LA SOUL/Four Minute Mile-THE GET-UP KIDS/Strong Reaction-PEGBOY
I would much rather watch a movie in the theater then at home on dvd (I like watching people watch the movie too, its one of the few times you can watch people in repose, where they are not self-conscious of what they look like/being looked at) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Mallrats (funniest movie ever, so underrated), Rock and Roll High School, Sleepaway Camp, Bottlerocket, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The NeverEnding Story, April Fools Day, Boogie Nights, Ferris Buellers Day-Off, The Virgin Suicides, Run Lola Run
"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships." ... Tivo is the best invention ever after fire, beer, the alphabet and the pill...Survivor, Nip/Tuck, any Law and Order, Arrested Development, Project Runway, 90210 (the Brenda years were the best) OZ, Entourage, LOST...and numerous more so bad they are good reality tv shows that i am too embarassed to list...televisionwithoutpity.com
The Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Atwood/The World According to Garp-John Irving/ Middlesex-Jeffery Eugenides/ The Heart is Decietful Above All things-JT LeRoy/ The Beach-Alex Garland/ The Stone Diaries-Carol Shields/ Running with Scissors-Augustine Burroughs/ ANYTHING by Kurt Vonnegut and Chuck Palahniuk... all my entertainment and music mags I get
Weird as it sounds if I were able to pick my own parents (other then the ones i already have, of course) it would be Bette Middler and Kurt Vonnegut---(Even though I now kinda love Wendy Williams and she may displace Bette as fictional mom of choice)