new york, music, law, record shopping, chess, trivia nights, maps, reading the new york times, crossword puzzles, long-distance running, listening to the radio (faves: wfmu, wnyc, kexp, woxy, eastvillageradio.com), making mix cds, good coffee, good food (esp. ethiopian, mexican, southern, sushi, thai, tofu dogs), talkie movies, karaoke
People who are worse than me at karaoke:http://sarahoconnor.com/albums/Nashville/MVI_1375.av i
a sampling: dylan, beatles, wilco, luna/galaxie 500, silver jews, pavement, john prine, tribe called quest, flaming lips, neutral milk hotel, nirvana, sidney bechet, coltrane, british sea power, kinks, orange juice, feelies, arcade fire, django reinhardt, van morrison, television, quasi, the sea and cake, bowie, eno, fire town, gang starr, philip glass, tom waits, young marble giants, stone roses, invisibl skratch piklz, dj shadow, ltj bukem, fiery furnaces, spoon, velvet underground, leonard cohen, beulah, mogwai, steve earle, big star, undertones, neil young, the clash, the high strung, cause co-motion, ashford breaks, whitey herzogs, pine hill haints, quadrajets, man or astroman?, laurie anderson, gentlemen's club, the association, voxtrot, the long blondes, the national, clap your hands say yeah, ratatat, ted leo, love is all, jesus and mary chain, human switchboard, comet gain, dream syndicate, raincoats, left banke, free design, elvis costello, roxy music, wild beasts. . .
directors: woody allen, spike lee, richard linklater, coen bros, jarmusch, scorcese, wes anderson, godard, truffaut, ed burns, antonioni; titles: do the right thing, the godfather, taxi driver, annie hall, stolen kisses, breathless, the bicycle thief, amarcord, goodfellas, animal house, kramer v. kramer, ordinary people, y tu mama tambien, bowling for columbine, the pianist, lost in translation, shawshank redemption, the shining, kinsey, sideways, squid and the whale, blow up. . .
john steinbeck, carson mccullers, j.d. salinger, tom wolfe, malcolm gladwell, don delillo, gabriel garcia-marquez, herman hesse, philip roth, albert camus, dave eggers, pete hamill, rick bragg...