Film/Theatre/Directing, Literature, all things Latin and Greek, Art, Roman Empire, general old stuff, left wing politics, drinking, arguing, embarrasing myself, honesty, singing loudly, listening to and doing x-tina with Jarrod, anti-orthodoxy
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Eels, Dressy Bessy, Sufjan Stevens, Goldfrapp, Belle and Sebastian, British Sea Power, Hot Hot Heat, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Le Tigre, Andrew Bird, Ambulance Ltd, Wannadies, The Smiths, Irving Berlin(lately), The Decemberists, SAM PHILLIPS!, Of Montreal, Mando Diao, Stars, Metric, The Lightning Seeds, Jeff Buckley, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pixies, Musicals(I know...Sondheim, Rodgers/Hart, Comden/Green, Kander/Ebb etc), Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Old 97s, The Strokes, Indigo Girls, The Cure, Louis and Ella, Chet Baker, Radiohead, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, pop, hip-hop, doo wop etc...
Blood Simple, The Princess Bride, Young Frankenstein, Bad Education, All About My Mother, Mary Poppins, Dr. Strangelove, Raising Arizona, Monster, The Godfather, All About Eve, Singin' In the Rain, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Airplane, Annie Hall, The Philadelphia Story, The Manchurian Candidate(original), Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Waiting for Guffman, Swing Time, Grease, 8 1/2, The Muppet Movie et al, Boys Don't Cry, Clue, Lost In Translation, Talk to Her, Shaun of the Dead, When Harry Met Sally, Pirates of the Carribean, Moulin Rouge, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Clue, Amadeus, Edward Schissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Incredibles, Top Hat, all That Jazz, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Margot at the Wedding, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Drawn Together, Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons(best show ever), Family Guy, History's Mysteries,Aqua Teen Hunger Force and anything on Cartoon Network(esp Adult Swim), I Love the 1880s and now...Saints on Sinners, formerly on My Network TV, now showing in Australia.
Currently Reading: Nixon and Kissinger, Portrait of a Lady, Look Homeward, Angel; Recently Read: Brideshead Revisited, The Handmaid's Tale, To The Lighthouse, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, No One Writes to the Colonel, poetry of Baudelaire, Empire Falls, Goodbye, Columbus, White Teeth, The Corrections, Carthage, The Body Artist, A Fine Balance, Things Fall Apart, King Lear, The Picture of Dorian Gray, John Adams, 1776, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Down and Out In Paris and London, The Elegant Universe, At Swim Two Boys, Paradise Lost, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Catch-22, The Count of Monte Cristo(for the third time!), Dancer From the Dance, Portnoy's Complaint, Choke, High Fidelity, Life of Pi, The Sound and the Fury, Middlesex, Everything is Illuminated, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Antonia, Swann's Way, American Psycho, On Directing Film
Homer, Caesar(Julius and Augustus), Vergil, Horace, Aeschylus, Robespierre, Ben Franklin, Virginia Woolf, Kazan, Wes Anderson, Mr. Cusick , Amanda Palmer