My general interests are best summed up by the words of my favorite malcontent, Morrissey: "Love, Peace, and Harmony....Very nice, very nice, very nice."
Cherry Ghosts, Flowerpot Heads, Linguists, Strangers, Pedestrians, Pirates (AARrrg), Bench Warmers, Castaways, The characters from my favorite books...Everyone really.
Crunchy grooves mostly, but in particular: {At The Moment} Devendra Banhart, Ambulance LTD, Fela Kuti and The African 70, Sigur Ros, New Order, Cee-Lo Green The Soul Machine, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Jay-Jay Johanson, M.F. Doom, Band of Horses, Bloc Party, Joao Gilberto, Spoon, Sam Cooke, The Arcade Fire --- {ALWAYS}: WILCO, Radiohead, Belle and Sebastian, Prince, Miles Davis, Morrissey, Ella Fitzgerald, The Mother Hips, Bob Dylan, Broken Social Scene, Stevie Wonder, Smashing Pumpkins, A Tribe Called Quest, Portishead, The Flaming Lips, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell (she never lies), The Decemberists, John Coltrane, Lucinda Williams, Sparklehorse, Gurdas Maan, Feenom Circle, R-Sun, The Antiques, Gordy Quist, K-Settes Starring Butchers Blind...and growing.
Magnolia ~ The Third Man ~ Do The Right Thing ~ I Am Trying To Break Your Heart ~ La Dulce Vita ~ The Barbarian Invasions ~ La Jetee ~ Manhattan ~ Not Monsoon Wedding ~ JFK ~ Nobody's Business (a doc by Alan Berliner) ~ The 5 Obstructions ~ A Thin Blue Line ~ Stand By Me ~ House Party ~ In America ~ Amelie Poulain de Montmartre ~ In The Mood For Love ~ Days of Heaven ~ The Taste of Others ~ Kontroll ~ Basquiat ~ The Big Lebowski ~ The Motorcycle Diaries ~ Boogie Nights ~ Wildcats ~ Purple Rain ~ Good Night, And Good Luck ~ Waking The Dead ~ Dream With The Fishes ~ In This World ~ Maculin, Feminin
Not much telly watching for me over the past year, but I'm always game for re-runs of The Sopranos, The Office, Arrested Development, Sifl and Ollie, Namaste America, and at the moment, Mad About You (don't ask me why).
Some of my favorites are: Moth Smoke (Hamid), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Rushdie), The Stranger (Camus), Mary and O'Neal (Cronin), Esther Stories (Orner), A People's History of the United States (Zinn), Libra (Delillo), Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Garcia Marquez), The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), My Name Is Red (Pamuk), Prague (Phillips), Slapstick (Vonnegut), Einstein's Dreams (Lightman), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera), Bob Dylan: Chronicles I, American Pastoral (Roth), The Great Railway Bazaar (Theroux), Waiting (Jin), The Razor's Edge (Maugham), Rumble Fish (Hinton), Paris To The Moon (Gopnik), Graceland (Albani), Lonely Planet Morocco, A Year in the World (Mayes), A Brief History of Nearly Everything (Bryson), Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE (Safran Foer), The Question of Bruno (Hemon), Leaves of Grass (Whitman), * WITHOUT FEAR OF WIND OR VERTIGO *
My Bapu Ji.