music, writing, making mix cds and tapes like theres no tomorrow, going to shows, 80's music, record collections, causing a scene, feminism, i love the 80's, london, toronto, and zines...
(one, mr. billy idol or ms. siouxsie sioux)
(or rather, anyone who "gets it")
Elastica, Blur, The Smiths, The Jam, The Clash, Pavement, Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Idlewild, Belle & Sebastian, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Blake Babies, Sarge, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bjork, The Creeping Nobodies, The Constantines, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Portishead, The Arcade Fire, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Jesus & Mary Chain, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, U2, David Bowie, Manic Street Preachers, Royal City, James, Badly Drawn Boy, Velvet Underground, X, Joy Division, X-Ray Spex, Sigur Ros, New Order, The Replacements, Morrissey, Elvis Costello, Juliana Hatfield, Final Fantasy, Sea Snakes, Psychedelic Furs, Cocteau Twins, Ladytron, Les Georges Leningrad, Romeo Void, Bis, Talking Heads, Thurston Moore, Bratmobile, Cadallaca, Le Tigre, Heavens to Betsy, Comet Gain, The Hold Steady, The Deadly Snakes, Be Your Own Pet, Goldfrapp, The Gossip, Two Koreas, Fugazi, Oakley Hall, Luna, The Ramones, Sally Shapiro, Kate Bush, The Blow, Husker Du, The National, Spoon
High Fidelity, Amelie, Royal Tenenbaums, Trainspotting, Pretty In Pink, V For Vendetta, Corpse Bride, Reality Bites, Heathers, Rushmore, Donnie Darko, Wet Hot American Summer, Edward Scissorhands, Boondock Saints...
Law & Order: SVU, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Scrubs, The Simpsons, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, The Twilight Zone, Family Guy, Futurama, Degrassi (the old school ones), Best Week Ever, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Office (UK & US), Extras, The IT Crowd (and things that Richard Ayoade writes or stars in...like Garth Marenghi's Darkplace), Spaced, The Mighty Boosh, House...
"Beirut Nightmares" by Ghada Samman, "The Coldest Winter Ever" by Sister Souljah, "Absolute Beginners" by Colin MacInnes, "War Talk" by Arundhuti Roy, "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath, "Jude The Obscure" by Thomas Hardy, "The Doris Zine Anthology" by Cindy, "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby, "Girl, Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen, "America: The Book" by Jon Stewart, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire, "The Pleiades Zine" by the lovely Miranda, "Cultor-Sore" by Taylor of Parcell Press, "GHVI: A Socio-Histo Disco" by Anne Elizabeth Moore, and "Off The Map"...
Jon Stewart & Conan O'Brien & Zine Writers...and oh yeah, this guy: