cooking, food, graphic design, knitting, history, politics, theatre, web design
trance, disco, old-school country, funk, 80s (the good kind), Ye-Ye, jazz, musicals, Bobby Womack, The Fifth Dimension, The Smiths, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Lloyd Cole, Nino Ferrer, Serge Gainsbourough, Quincy Jones, Ahman Jamal, Dave Brubeck, Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel, Archie Bell and the Drells, Aretha Franklin, Art Blakey, Ash, Belle & Sebastian, Bauhaus, Bee Gees, Beck, Betty Wright, Bill Withers, Bill Evans, Bootsy Collins, Booker T & the MG's, Buck Owens, Buena Vista Social Club, Celia Cruz, Charlie Parker, Charles Wright, The Commodores, The Delfonics, The Dead Milkmen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Elmer Bernstein, Ernest Tubb, Evolution Control Committee, The Folksmen, Galactic, Gary Burton, Gloria Gaynor, Gogol Bordello, Grandmaster Flash, Groove Armada, Hank Snow, Jackie Wilson, The Jazz Butcher, The Jazz Messengers, Jesus & Mary Chain, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Jonathan Richman, Katamari Damacy, Laibach, Lawrence Welk, Leningrad Cowboys, Leonard Cohen, Love and Rockets, The Meters, Michel Legrand, The Mike Flowers Pops, Moby, The Monkees, Morrissey, Mosquitos, New Order, The New Main Street Singers, Nick Cave, Nuspirit Helsinki, Otis Redding, Pam Grier, Parliament, Pizzicato Five, Prince, the Psychedelic Furs, Quincy Jones, REM, Reverend Horton Heat, Rick James, Roberta Flack, Robbie Fulks, Robyn Hitchcock, Rose Royce, Ronnie Jordan, Les Sans Culottes, Sandie Shaw, Sir Mixalot, The Skatalites, Slade, Sly & the Family Stone, El Son Cubano, Spinal Tap, Stereo Total, The Squeeze, The Sugar Cubes, Sylvie Vartan, T Rext, Tahiti 80, Thema Houston, Thelonious Monk, They Might Be Giants, Tom Jones, Tom Waits, Tom Wopat, Toy Dolls, Utah Saints, Violent Femmes, Waylon Jennings, Wes Montgomery, The White Stripes, Woodentops, The Wooldridge Brothers, XTC
Across 110th Street, All About Eve, American Movie (hey! I was in that), The Arisocrats, Auntie Mame, Best in Show, Big Night, Buckaroo Banzai, Cabaret, Cannibal, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chicago, CB4, Down with Love, Equus, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Golddiggers of 1933, Grease, Happy Accidents, His Girl Friday, The Killer, Liza with a Z, The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk, A Mighty Wind, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Once Upon a Time in China, Orgazmo, Pillow Talk, Play Misty For Me, Pootie Tang, Princess Bride, remo Williams: the Adventure Begins, Spinal Tap, Stella Dallas, Team America, The Wiz, Young Girls of Rochefort
30 Rock, Arrested Development, Strangers with Candy, The Office (USA!), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Deadliest Catch, Doctor Who, Nova, Megastructures, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Hee-Haw, Heroes, Futurama, The Electric Company, Firefly, The French Chef, The Venture Brothers, Dog Whisperer, Little Britain, Peep Show, Look Around You, The Prisoner, Battlestar Galactica, The Muppet Show, Weeds
Julia Child, James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Balzac, Colette, Nick Hornby, Neal Pollack, William Gibson, Tibor Fischer, Maggie Dietz, The New Yorker
Julia Child, James Joyce, Thomas Jefferson, Geronimo, Bill Clinton, Dolly Madison