MOTHERING, event planning, PARENTING, film, DISCIPLINING, making music, RAISING, reading (quality literature and trashy tabloids), TEACHING, all things vintage
The Fishers
Iron and Wine, The Rapture, Cat Power, Donovan, AC/DC, Will Oldham, Prince, Le Tigre, Television, Jeff Buckley, Erykah Badu, T. Rex, 4th of July, American Analog Set, Leonard Cohen, Joanna Newsom, Quasimoto, AIR, B. Fleischmann, Chromeo, The Radar Brothers, Michael Jackson, D'Angelo, The Cure, The Shins, Belle and Sebastian, Kings of Convenience, Nathan Brown, Devendra B., Dub Narcotic, Serge Gainsbourg, The Beach Boys, New Kids on the Block, Four Tet, Slum Village, The Clientele, Mos Def, Os Mutantes, Matt Rice, Black Sabbath, Chopin (nocturnes), The Postal Service ("Annie," "Hair," "A Chorus Line," "Jesus Christ Superstar")...
Top Five All-Time Favorites (in no discerning order): 1) "A Christmas Story" 2) "Back to the Future" 3)"Dazed and Confused" 4) "Run, Lola, Run" 5) always a wild card and always in the running: "Microcosmos," "La Haine," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Waiting for Guffman," "Rosemary's Baby," "Donnie Darko," "Amelie," "Buffalo 66, "Atomic Cafe," "The Big Chill," "The Shining," "Labyrinth," "Dance 'Til Dawn," "Princess Bride," "Garden State," "Sleepaway Camp," "The Prestige"
"SIX FEET UNDER" (beyond possibly, unDOUBTedly, the most detailed, naked, thorough, perfect, painstakingly real television production ever...) "America's Funniest Videos," and "The Soup"
Lately: Spook, What Remains, Lovely Bones, The Year of Magical Thinking, Stiff, Assassination Vacation, Dracula, Vice Guides... Always: Nabakov, Hemingway, Plath, Salinger, Sedaris, Eggers, Zinn, Weil, American Psycho, The Red Tent, Please Kill Me, White Boy Shuffle, White Teeth, Geek Love, Baby-Sitters Club (Where do I put that "This American Life" is the best thing that's EVER happened to radio?)