Tso's Chicken
Myself in 65 years.
Other people named Robyn York
And maybe Paul Kangas and Susie Gharib
And definitely Jaques Pepin.
And last, but never least,
in no particular order: Cat Stevens, Paul Simon, Jazzberry Ram, Martin Tielli, NQ Arbuckle, Richard Buckner, Curtis Mayfield (solo and with the Impressions), Rolling Stones, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Readable Ink, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, The Mamas and The Papas, Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Blind Melon, Weezer (the love stops at Pinkerton), Sloan, Flashing Lights, Hayden, Beck, Jane's Addiction, The New Pornographers (and offshoots/solo AC Newman, Dan Bejar/Destroyer, Neko Case), Greg Brown, Magnetic Fields (and 6ths), Nerf Herder, Eels, Pulp, Rilo Kiley, Lemonheads, Joy Division, New Order, Elton John, Ben Folds, Jimmy Smith, Thelonius Monk, Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Motion City Soundtrack/Reggie and the Full Effect (associated becuase of guilty pleasure factor), Pedro the Lion, Clark, Rheostatics, Veal/Luke Doucet, Andrew Vincent and the Pirates, Blind Willie McTell, Robert Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen, Cowboy Junkies, Wilco, the Clash, Django Reinhardt, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Great Lakes Swimmers, onelinedrawing/Jonah Matranga/Far, Jean Leloup, Frank Black/Pixies, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Calexico, Liz Phair, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Danny Michel, Russian Futurists, R.E.M., Nick Cave, Tegan & Sara, Van Morrison, The Weakerthans, ...(to be continued)
Harold and Maude, stuff by Wes Anderson, stuff by Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze, stuff by the Coen Bros (especially The Big freakin Lebowski), anything by Alfred Hitchcock, Lost In Translation, Ghost World, Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Being There (the Peter Sellers one, not the Robin Williams one), Ripley's Game, The Decline of the American Empire (the film and the reality show playing outside my window as I type)), This is Spinal Tap, High Fidelity, Grosse Point Blank, basically any John Cusack movie that does not have the words "Must" "Love" or "Dogs" in the title, Benny & Joon (even though Aidan Quinn has creepy eyes), and anything with Johnny Depp. Even Ed Wood. An Inconvenient Truth.
Jeo-pardy. I loves me some Alex T. (He's the only reason we own rabbit ears.)
And 30 Rock. Tina Fey is kickass.
Stuff no longer airing because no one appreciates tv shows sans laugh track: Freaks and Geeks, Twin Peaks,(rhyming not intentional), Kids in the Hall, The Cosby Show, Six Feet Under, Oz, Twitch City.
yep. I Still Read. mostly library, but occasionally used ones from discount book stores. JD Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Jean-Paul Sartre, Douglas Coupland (and Adams), Julian Barnes, Hal Niedzviecki, Chip Kidd (The Cheese Monkeys, minus the effed up ending), Will Ferguson, Marshall McLuhan, John Berger, Peter Lynch, Miriam Toews (A Complicated Kindness), Alain deBotton (Status Anxiety), etc etc.
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