My taste in music, movies, books and television runs the gambit. I’m an mp3 fiend. I love going to the movies oresitting at home with Netflix, popcorn and some friends. Here is just a sampling of my favorites.
FAVORITE MUSIC: My taste in music is all over the map (45, 000 mp3s and counting.) Here is a sampling of my favorites: Al Green, Alanis Morrisette, Alison Krauss, Ben Folds, Billie Holiday, Britney Spears, Cake, Carole King, Cher, Christina Aguilera, Coldplay, Counting Crows, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills and Nash, Death Cab for Cutie, Depeche Mode, Dido, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, Gorillaz, Green Day, Guster, Gwen Stefani, Jack Johnson, Jamie Cullum, Janet Jackson, Jason Mraz, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Kanye West, Keane, Keaton Simons, Kelly Clarkson, Little Feat, Maroon 5, Marvin Gaye, Mary J. Blige, Modest Mouse, Natasha Beddingfield, Nina Simone, Otis Redding, Patsy Cline, Pet Shop Boys, Postal Service, Rufus Wainwright, Sarah McLachlan, Scissor Sisters, Shakira, Steve Miller Band, The Flaming Lips, The Four Tops, The Fray, The Killers, The Shins, The Temptations, They Might Be Giants, Tori Amos, Weezer. Hard to pick even just a few artists or albums.
FAVORITE MOVIES: All the President’s Men, Almost Famous, American Beauty, American Psycho, Apocalypse Now, Best In Show, Big Lebowski, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Brokeback Mountain, Citizen Kane, Dead Poets Society, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, Garden State, Goonies, Great Expectations, Heathers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, In the Line of Fire, It’s My Party, L.A. Confidential, Late Shift, Lawrence of Arabia, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Long Time Companion, Lost in Translation, Memento, Mommie Dearest, Moulin Rouge, Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space, Old School, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, PCU, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Rushmore, Shawshank Redemption, Shock Corridor, Silence of the Lambs, Sixteen Candles, Stand By Me, Team America, The Breakfast Club, The Godfather, The Naked Kiss, The Princess Bride, The Thin Man, The Usual Suspects, The War Room, Up Close and Personal, Waiting for Guffman, Wedding Crashers, Wet Hot American Summer, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Zoolander.
FAVORITE TELEVISION: ON AIR: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, House, Dexter, The Office, Reno 911, Studio 60, Brothers & Sisters, Heroes, 24, Lost, My Name Is Earl, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Family Guy, Nip/Tuck, Oprah, Project Runway, Entourage, America’s Next Top Model, Curb Your Enthusiasm, American Idol, Weeds, Kathy Griffin’s Life on the D-List, Best Week Ever, The Soup, Real Time with Bill Mahr. OFF AIR: Six Feet Under, Alias, West Wing, Dead Like Me, The State (from 90’s MTV), Arrested Development, Sex and the City, The Wonder Years, Family Ties, Growing Pains, Picket Fences, Designing Women, Golden Girls, Murphy Brown, Seinfeld, 90210, Will & Grace. NEWS: CSPAN, CNN, MSNBC not FOX (big fan of Countdown with Keith Olbermann) Sunday morning shows in this order: Meet the Press, This Week, Face the Nation, McLaughlin Group, Chris Matthews Show. Other than that most television will rot your brain but Tivo keeps that from happening or so I’m told.
FAVORITE BOOKS/AUTHORS: Big fan of Bret Easton Ellis, Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris. I read a lot of current events/non fiction as well. Also enjoy histories, police mysteries, true crime. Some of my favorite books include: What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Joe Trippi, Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis, Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush by Eric Boehlert, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative and The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy by David Brock, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein and many, many more.
FAVORITE POD CASTS: I have no idea how to link to these. Try searching for them in your iTunes store: 24 Cast, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, Money Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for a Richer Life, Mr. Manners’ Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Polite Life, Project Runway: Tim Gunn, HotlineTV, Equality Speaking, MeetJustin, KCRW’s Left Right and Center, Art History in Just a Minute, Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, KCRW’s Film Reviews, KCRW’s Politics of Culture, Savage Love Podcast, Great Speeches in History, Amateur Traveler Podcast, Lonely Planet Travelcasts, Ebert & Roeper, New York Times Movie Review, CBS News on Logo, Wisecrack, After Ellen, Jason Bellini’s Here & Nows.
