books, movies, food, good beer, running, Japan, teaching, funny names (for instance, if you were already so unfortunate as to have the last name Wetnight or Pangburn, why on Earth would you choose to go by Dick instead of Richard???? - These are real people, and they should consider this seriously.)
People in Fresno/Clovis area who have read books or who are girls and like to run slowly. Old friends in far-off lands. Cha Cha Osorio. Chuck Deathrage. Anyone from Cockeysville, MD.
Blood Sweat & Tears may be my all-time favorite.rotating on my playlist:Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins, Elliott Smith, The Jackson Five, Johnny Cash, The Magic Numbers, Keane, The Black Keys, Iron & Wine, James Declan, Dashboard Confessional, The Magnetic Fields, The Darkness, The Faint, Ben Folds, Brazilian Girls, Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, The Postal Service, Pizzicato Five, Manu Chao, Noir Desir, Weezer, Flogging Molly, Jethro Tull, Stevie Wonder, Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile), Madeline Peyroux (Careless Love album), Jerry Jeff Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Leadbelly, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Medeski Martin & Wood, Thad Jones, Maria Schneider Orchestra, UNT One O'Clock Lab Band...
all-time favs: Big Fish, Joe Versus the Volcano, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Princess Bride, The Adventures of Milo & Otis, Being John Malkovich, Return to Oz, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice (ONLY with Colin Firth), American History X, The Royal Tenenbaums. honorable mentions: About Schmidt, Casablanca, The Godfather, Die Hard, About A Boy, The Prince of Egypt. childhood favs: The Chipmunk Adventure, The Gnome Mobile, The Flight of the Navigator, Big Business.
The Office (UK, then US), Scrubs, House, Arrested Development. Futurama, Home Movies, Robot Chicken, Alvin and the Chipmunks.
currently: Hocus Pocus (Vonnegut) favs: The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut), anything by David Sedaris, especially Me Talk Pretty One Day. anything by Haruki Murakami, especially After the Quake and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. 1984, J.B., Anna Karenina, The Little Prince, The Loved One, anything Salinger, especially 9 Stories.honorable mentions: The Plague, Ender's Game, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Great Divorce, Slaughterhouse Five.
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