The person who for the past year has been continually re-writing the exact same racist graffiti in the exact same two spots on the brick wall of my Capitol Hill alley... using CHALK(?!) which I wipe off... using SPIT. Yeah, I'd really, really like to meet that person...
Guided By Voices. Pixies. Led Zeppelin. The Police. Bowie. Hendrix. Beatles. U2. The Who. The Minutemen. Sonic Youth. Sly Stone. Jane's Addiction. My Bloody Valentine. Al Green. Pavement. Bukka White.
Dr. Strangelove, Raising Arizona, Apocalypse Now, Brazil, Dazed & Confused, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, Rushmore, Full Metal Jacket, Vertigo, Bottle Rocket, After Hours, Amelie, Withnail and I, Age of Innocence, Donnie Darko, Boogie Nights, Dr. Zhivago, Trainspotting, The Shining, Barton Fink, The Sure Thing, Swimming With Sharks, The Chocolate War, Animal House, Living in Oblivion, Matewan, Cool Hand Luke, La grande illusion, Shallow Grave, I Shot Andy Warhol, Kelly's Heroes, Glengarry Glen Ross, Network, Seven Samurai, Being John Malkovich, Fargo, Paths of Glory, State and Main, Summer of Sam, The Big Lebowski, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Buffalo 66, American Psycho...
and that Tarantino guy seems to know what he's doing.
Rome, the new Battlestar Galactica, Sopranos, Firefly, Little Britain, L&O:SVU, L&O:CI, The First 48, Star Trek(s), Monty Python, Rod Serling's Night Gallery, Kids in the Hall, Fawlty Towers, Magnum PI, Homicide: Life on the Street, X-Files and what the hell, the old Battlestar Galactica was pretty sweet too...
Edith Wharton is cool and so is Raymond Chandler. I like James Ellroy, but I remember "White Jazz" being an annoying read and I never finished it.