Music:
Counting Crows; The Cure; Depeche Mode.
Movies:
American Beauty; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; You Can Count on Me; Say Anything; Shawshank Redemption.
Television:
All-time favorites: Six Feet Under; Sex & the City. Current faves: Lost; Survivor; Weeds; Sopranos (finally catching up). Our other Tivo Season Passes: 24; Desperate Housewives; 60 Minutes; and yes... American Idol, I will admit it, although we haven't been able to bring ourselves to watch the auditions this time around.
Books:
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre & Villette; Toni Morrison's Beloved; Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife; Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex; Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics; Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies; Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; Nicole Krauss's The History of Love; Janet Fitch's White Oleander; Catherine Newman's Waiting for Birdy; Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.
Heroes:
My late father, Anil; my husband, Aaron; my brother, Devin.