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Music:


Movies:

Being There, There Will Be Blood, Sweeney Todd, Walk Hard, The Darjeeling Limited, Superbad, The Ten, Knocked Up, Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, Reno 911: Miami, 40 Year Old Virgin, Jesus Is Magic, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Palindromes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kill Bill, School of Rock, Mullholland Drive, Brain Candy, Adaptation, Human Nature, Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, Gummo, Donnie Darko, The Butcher Boy, Zoolander, Ghost World, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Clueless, Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill, The Never Ending Story, Mystic Pizza, Heathers, The Little Mermaid, Purple Rain, Weird Science, Pump Up the Volume, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, Secret of NIMH

Television:

Top Chef, Rock of Love, Bizarre Foods, Iron Chef America, Flight of the Conchords, The Office, 30 Rock, Dexter, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Law and Order, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, The Sarah Silverman Program, Big Love, Weeds, Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy, Stella Comedy, The Simpsons, Home Movies, Reno 911, Strangers With Candy, The State, Mr. Show, 21 Jump Street, Ab Fab, Sex and the City, Friends, My So-Called Life, Jem, Square One

Books:

This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record, Bed, You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am, Music for Torching, Instant Love, White Noise, Lolita, Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants, Birds of America, Self-Help, Anagrams, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, Like Life, When the Messenger Is Hot, All This Heavenly Glory, Hairstyles of the Damned, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Where I'm Calling From, Cruddy, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Morvern Callar, Lanark, Confederacy of Dunces, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Pastoralia, Diary of an Emotional Idiot, Soft Maniacs, Brass, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, Cat's Eye, Dancing Girls, A Handmaid's Tale, Wilderness Tips, She's Come Undone, A Crack-Up at the Race Riots, The Sun Also Rises, In Our Time, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Girl, Anthem, Wuthering Heights, Anne of Green Gables

Heroes:


Riskay feat. Aviance & Real - Smell Yo D***
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My Blog

The next American Idol?

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Posted by Shoogyboom on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:23:00 PST

I am reading at Rec Rooms 4th Anniversary tomorrow night!

Black Rock3614 N. Damen Ave.8 p.m. sharp!This will probably be my last reading in Chicago, so please come out! The theme is "four seasons" and there are a ton of readers, including Jacob Knabb, Eric L...
Posted by Shoogyboom on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:02:00 PST

My period? Once a year? I’d like that.

This SNL sketch from the Tina Fey episode gets better with every viewing. ..So does this: .....
Posted by Shoogyboom on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:52:00 PST

Susannah Felts Interview

I interviewed my friend Susannah Felts about her debut novel, This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record, which I highly recommend reading. It's about a teenage girl's search for identity through phot...
Posted by Shoogyboom on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:39:00 PST

Jay Reatard Review

I think this is the best review I've written so far: http://www.spin.com/features/ithappenedlastnight/2008/02/080 225_jayreatardThere's a typo at the end, but that's not my fault.Also, Pitchfork copied...
Posted by Shoogyboom on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:03:00 PST

Guess what?

I wrote an "Artist of the Day" profile on School of Language, which was published today on Spin.com. Check it!...
Posted by Shoogyboom on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:23:00 PST

RIP Brad Renfro

So yesterday I watched TMZ on Fox for the first time. I remember the host of the show (Harvey Levin) from something, so I looked him up. Turns out that not only was he on The People's Court, but he wa...
Posted by Shoogyboom on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:40:00 PST

Apparently I only post blogs when I get published on Spin.com

After sitting through 13 hours of bands, interviewing 17 people and spending five hours writing, I'm proud to present my review of Thrill Jockey's 15th Anniversary Show:http://www.spin.com/features/it...
Posted by Shoogyboom on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:37:00 PST

I got published on Spin.com today!

My first assignment for Spin.com was to review The Hives show at Metro for It Happened Last Night. I think it turned out pretty well (the editor added some extra adjectives): http://www.spin.com/featu...
Posted by Shoogyboom on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:16:00 PST

Rec Room Wed. Oct. 3 @ 8 p.m.

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Posted by Shoogyboom on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:39:00 PST