unassigned books, articles, film, music, pop culture in general, pop culture history (not just i love the 70s/80s etc), 20th c. cultural history, news, media studies, food, psychology, pathology
neutral milk hotel, john vanderslice, ted leo, magnolia electric co., laura veirs, laura cantrell, the decemberists, of montreal, the new pornographers, antony and the johnsons, wolf parade, CYHSY, the wrens, gram parsons, GLEN CAMPBELL, arcade fire, the light footwork, voxtrot, the russian futurists, the national, destroyer, DFA 1979, andrew bird, the brunettes, AIH, animal collective, happy bullets, okkervil river, WMMF, iron and wine, centro-matic, david bowie, t rex, elvis costello, dolly parton, conway twitty, fiery furnaces, the go team, gogol bordello, husker du, jens lekman, sondre lerche, joanna newsom, alex chilton, beirut, bonnie prince billy, the long winters, hidden cameras, andrew morgan, black mountain, tindersticks, rosebuds, silver jews, the thermals
zelig, logan's run, an angel at my table, bad taste, some like it hot, grey gardens, anything by errol morris, the last waltz, godfather II, jackie brown, the age of innocence, once were warriors, the seven-up series, tarnation, the last picture show
deadwood, six feet under, SWC, the wire, the simpsons, king of the hill, curb your enthusiasm, mary tyler moore, the rockford files, ab fab, french & saunders, the young ones, frontline, PBS in general (excluding the gardening and weird motivational business shows).
(by choice) authors: salman rushdie, jonathan lethem, james baldwin, paul auster, patricia highsmith, julian barnes, stephen fry, tim o'brien.
i have a weakness for magazines. new journalism counts here, right? grover lewis, joan didion, george plimpton. old rollingstone...
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