Marc Bolan and Mickey Finn are still dead, right?
In no particular order: The Gun Club, The Wrens, Sufjan Stevens, Alejandro Escovedo, Califone, The Clash, Billie Holiday, Deerhoof, Redd Kross, The Melvins, Husker Du, Animal Collective, Jesus and Mary Chain, T Rex, Marc Bolan! Marc Bolan! Marc Bolan! (And Mickey Finn!) Superchunk, Morphine, Television, The Stooges, Johnny Cash, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Devo, Quintron (& Miss Pussycat), Tom Waits, M.I.A., Sparks, Cat Power, X, Four Tet, Carolyn Mark, Nina Simone, Black Boot Trio, Jim Bryson, Camp Radio, Replacements, Les Savy Fav, Pixies, Constantines, Os Mutantes, Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground, Nick Cave, Interpol, Hank Williams, The Grifters, Six Finger Satellite, Sparklehorse, Joy Division, Jeff Buckley, Wire, Eleni Mandell, Aphex Twin, Archers of Loaf (and Crooked Fingers), Fiery Furnaces, Talking Heads, Wilco, Dinosaur Jr., Jesus Lizard, blah blah blah... (and did I mention Marc Bolan?)
Some docs: Titicut Follies; Grizzly Man; MC5: A True Testimonial; Capturing the Friedmans; Stevie; Jandek on Corwood; Stupidity; The Corporation; The Fearless Freaks; In The Realms of the Unreal...
Some not-docs that I like: Harold and Maude; Naked; Velvet Goldmine; Spirited Away; Wild At Heart; Birdy; Rushmore; Dog Day Afternoon; Man Bites Dog; Dead Man; Down By Law; Ghost World; Secretary; Vertigo, My Own Private Idaho; City of God; Brick; The Blair Witch Project; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Suspiria; A bout de Souffle (Breathless), and, of course, Night of the Living Dead...
Do Chris Cunningham videos count as movies? 'Cause I really like those too.
30 Rock. The Wire. Dexter. Deadwood. Weeds. Wonder Showzen. And, inexplicably, the trials and tribulations of Coronation Street. Yup.
Here are some of the faves I can read over and over again: Einstein's Monsters & Time's Arrow (Martin Amis); Story of The Eye (Georges Bataille); Portrait of an Eye (Kathy Acker); Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut); Coming Through Slaughter (Michael Ondaatje); L'Etranger (Albert Camus); The City Man (by a great Toronto writer, Howard Akler); If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino); The White Hotel (D.M. Thomas); Cherry (Mary Karr); The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov); Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez); The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks); Geek Love (Katherine Dunne); The Fermata (Nicholson Baker); Waiting For Godot (Samuel Beckett); plus I am a sucker for Tennessee Williams, and pretty much anything by Will Self, J.G. Ballard, Haruki Murakami, and Dennis Cooper
and so much more...