Cheeses.
People who are smart and funny and loud.
Friends who have been lost, but would like to be found.
the pixies, the smiths, new order, joy division, the rolling stones, radiohead, gorillaz, sigur ros, sufjan stevens, the white stripes, joni mitchell, joan baez, bob dylan , neko case, the new pornographers, regina spektor, pj harvey, fiona apple, tori amos, neil young, heart, the pogues, the cure, weezer, battles, bat for lashes, nine inch nails, outkast, rage against the machine, wilco, the polyphonic spree, violent femmes, david bowie, beastie boys, the flaming lips, johnny cash, jeff buckley, depeche mode, bjork, bowie, jane's addiction, ani difranco, and then, too: debussy, saint-saens, tchaikovsky, mahler, schumann, grieg, blah blah lots of other stuff
Amelie, Best in Show, The Big Lebowski, A Christmas Story, Chungking Express, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Fargo, Gosford Park, It's a Wonderful Life, Napoleon Dynamite, Out of Africa, The Return of the King, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sense and Sensibility, Shaun of the Dead, The Shawshank Redemption, Trainspotting
deadwood, lost, rome, arrested development, strangers with candy, the office (uk and us), freaks and geeks, seinfeld, colbert report.
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Fiction, history, travel writing, biographies, women's studies-type stuff, cultural studies, cereal boxes, shampoo bottles, etc.
Dorothy Parker and Amy Sedaris.