Just let me eat out. Anywhere. I love eating out. I love dessert. If I'm not eating somewhere I'm probably at a "show", because I'm too tragically hip for "concerts". No musical "events" for me. I only do "shows". Unless Radiohead is in town. Hobbies include shooting death glares at people who stand on the left side when riding escalators, and sarcasm as an extreme sport.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams.
Radiohead, Muse, Depeche Mode, Morrissey, The Smiths, Blur, Doves, Aqualung, Franz Ferdinand, Sons & Daughters, The Clash, Maximo Park, Editors, Klaxons, Rialto, Travis, okay I have a weakness for pretty much anything British... Interpol, The Walkmen, R.E.M., Beck, Tapes 'n' Tapes, Death Cab, Postal Service, New Pornographers, Ringside, Shout Out Louds, The National, Spoon, Weezer, Doveman, Syd Matters, Tokyo Police Club, Cold War Kids, LCD Soundsystem... Billy Joel's "She's Always a Woman to Me" makes me bawl like a small small child every single time.
Fight Club, American History X, lord just give me more Edward Norton... Dumb and Dumber, West Side Story, The Cutting Edge (You just wouldn't understand...), American Psycho, The Believer, Garden State, Mystic River, Memento, The Ten Commandments, The Land Before Time (Whaat?), An American Tail, The Fox and The Hound. My new favorite - Stranger Than Fiction.
Lost, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Nip/Tuck, The O.C. (Yeah, I said it! Bring it on!), 60 Minutes (I know, random. Friggin' addicted to it.), The Office, America's Next Top Model, Dexter (you need to be watching this show!), How I Met Your Mother, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls (R.I.P. - We hardly knew ye), Top Chef, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report (Gotta get my news somewhere...), Kyle XY (but only in ten-hour blocks).
With recipes: The Dessert Bible by Christopher Kimball, Sweet Seasons by Richard Leach, Chocolate by Pierre Herme, The French Laundry Cookbook. Without recipes: The Catcher in The Rye, David Sedaris, Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland, The Frog King by Adam Davies, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman, anything by Roald Dahl (My favorite all-time author, children's books and adult short stories included)
The generation of NY pastry chefs that make dessert interesting and important and relevant (they know who they are). And Paul Newman.