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My iPod is always going. I'm partial to soul/funk and honky-tonk/alt-country, and many very cheesy pop tunes. I love so much it's hard to narrow down, but here are my perennial faves: Aaliyah, Abba, Johnny Adams, Fiona Apple, Eva Cassidy, Belle & Sebastian, Bettye Swann, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Dennis Brown, Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Cat Power, Kasey Chambers, Kelly Clarkson, The Clash, Nikka Costa, Elvis Costello, Joe Ely, Cesaria Evora, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Patty Griffin, Green Day, Donny Hathaway, Merle Haggard, Chris Isaak, Etta James, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, Le Tigre, Kirsty MacColl, Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield, Alanis Morissette, Sinead O'Connor, The O'Jays, Shuggie Otis, Esther Phillips, Prince, Toshi Reagon, Charlie Rich, Sade, Shakira, Nina Simone, Elliott Smith, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, Allen Toussaint, Luther Vandross, Dinah Washington, Paul Weller, Lucinda Williams, Stevie Wonder.
Radio (what did I do before the webstream?): KALX, KUSF, KPOO, KVRX, KEXP, KXLU, WFMU, WWOZ, WERS, WPFW, WKCR, BBC Radio 1, Triple J Australia.
Rear Window, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Rushmore, Coal Miner's Daughter, Sullivan's Travels, Leave Her to Heaven, Out of Sight, Being There, Team America, Heathers, Raising Victor Vargas, Ghost World, 25th Hour, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Boogie Nights, Spice World, Say Anything, Men Don't Leave, The Sound of Music, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Tapeheads, Reds, Clueless, Sixteen Candles, Mrs. Soffel, My Brilliant Career, High Tide, School of Rock, Casablanca, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Sound of Music, Bell Book and Candle, Dick, Party Girl, Dazed and Confused, Viva Las Vegas, Lost in Translation, Mad Hot Ballroom, Royal Tenenbaums
The Wire, Freaks and Geeks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, My So-Called Life, Buffy/Angel, Wonderfalls, Daria, Six Feet Under, Action, Karen Sisco, Entourage, The Office (UK)
Yes, I love books. I especially love YA books. It's hard to single out favorites when there are so many great YA authors whose books I enjoy, but I will say I'm particularly attached to any books by Patricia McCormick, David Levithan, Markus Zusak, and Jaclyn Moriarty. There are so many more YA authors whose books I adore...and many of them are on MySpace, so I hope you'll check 'em out in my Friends profiles.
Amongst "adult" (zzzz) authors, I pretty much love anything by Dawn Powell, Graham Greene, Ellen Gilchrist, Evelyn Waugh.
Random list of some favorite books:
A Confederacy of Dunces; An Actual Life; Angela's Ashes; Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash; Franny and Zooey; Cut; Sold; Dangerous Angels; Feed; Gone with the Wind; High Fidelity; I Capture the Castle; Lady: My Life As a Bitch; Me Talk Pretty One Day; Mr. Vertigo; My Brilliant Career; Sleeping Arrangements; Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley; The Grass Harp; The Member of the Wedding; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; The Realm of Possibility; To Kill a Mockingbird; Two Girls, Fat and Thin; White Teeth
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