The Algonquin Round Table, dinner parties, doomed idealism, Foucault, gay rights, giant squid, merkins, misanthropy, print media, red wine, reproductive rights, This American Life, watching R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet and drinking cheap champagne
Someone who will understand why I get so excited about farm animals, picnics and writing. Also, someone who won't be totally irritated by my incessant chatter. I'm not holding my breath on that last one.
Abba, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, Brent Gorton and the Tender Breasts, David Bowie, Nick Drake, Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, the Kamikaze Hearts, Aimee Mann, old Liz Phair, Peaches, Edith Piaf, the Pixies, Rasputina, Elliot Smith, Regina Spektor, Cat Stevens, Supertramp, Television, T. Rex, Rufus Wainwright
Amelie, Casablanca, Easy Rider, Ghost World, Goodbye Lenin!, Harold and Maude, Heathers, Il Postino, Lost in Translation, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Muriel's Wedding, Network, Once, ROCKY I, Secretary, the Squid and the Whale, Strictly Ballroom, Thumbsucker, Welcome to the Dollhouse, the Wizard of OzDocumentaries- Fast Cheap and Out of Control, the Corporation, Paris is Burning, Born into Brothels, the Slasher, Jesus Camp, Trekkies, Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating, the Fog of War, Capturing the Friedmans, Crazy Love.
Top Chef, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain
Salinger's Nine Stories, the Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean, Plato's Symposium, Foucault's History of Sexuality, Cathedral, Travels With Charley, Fast Food Nation, The Great Gatsby, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Walden, the short stories of Dorothy Parker, the Dictionary of Polish Obscenities
Howard Good and Dorothy Parker