marrying a rock star, divorcing a rock star, marrying a poet, living happily ever after
men with backbones, women without attitudes
soul, punk, funk, classic rock, hip hop, rock and roll, pop rock, indie rock, indie pop rock -- Brendan Benson, The Hentchmen, Digable Planets, Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terell, Black Star, The Strokes, Beck, A.C. Newman, The Go, Back in Spades, Elliot Smith, Cream, The Ramones, Warren Zevon, Air, The Stooges, MC5, Ryan Adams, The White Stripes, Coldplay (who knew?), Jason Mraz (the shame), Maroon 5 (yes folks, I'm sorry, but sometimes Maroon 5), Portishead, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Rage Against the Machine, Bjork, New York Dolls, Janis Joplin, Bill Withers, Patti Smith, The Paybacks, Weezer, Kelly Clarkson, The Who, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Television, Led Zeppelin -- anything that makes me cry or feel like a God
period dramas, epics, cult comedy classics, romantic comedies, drug comedies, based-on-a-true-story's -- This Is Spinal Tap, Rushmore, Bottlerocket, The Princess Bride, Old School, Airplane!, Wet Hot American Summer, Gimme Shelter, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Election, Mean Girls, Coen brothers, Gone With the Wind, Office Space, Caddy Shack, The Shawshank Redeption, 8 Mile, Gilda, Requiem for a Dream, Anchorman, Walk the Line, Gangs of New York and other stuff, too. What I really like is seeing movies in the theatre.
Reno 911!, The Soup, Real Time with Bill Maher, Project Runway, America's Smartest Model, Top Chef, Weeds, Jeopard, Intervention, Entourage, Deadwood, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Showbiz Show, Chapelle's Show, SNL, Seinfeld, Mythbusters -- anything funny, cheesy and/or reality- or nostalgia-based,
Books about language, anything by Fitzgerald or Hesse, Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Please Kill Me, biographies of tragic historical figures, magazines galore -- I subscribe to Esquire and Details, but would hope I start getting them for free when I become joint editor of both
Kurt Vonnegut, Zelda Fitzgerald, my brother, my parents