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Things I Like
a.c., air conditioning, airports, alice, art books, art museums, astronomy, audrey hepburn, autumn, bbc world service, biographies, black coffee, black hole computer theory, brand new books, calvin & hobbes, cathedrals, cellos, christmas, christmas lights, coal fires, coca cola, courtesy, curry, darth vader, david lynch, design, dexter, diaryland, dollar coins, drawings, eating out, eggs over-easy w toast, england, fireworks, forgiveness, gormenghast, green top, history, home, hubble space telescope, ice skating, itunes, jokes, kalamazoo, kissing, lager, letter from america, levi's 505s, apple computers, mac os x, making spoons, maps, mary poppins, micron pens, middle-earth, moody skies, morning edition, movie rentals, movie theaters, movie-theater popcorn, my isreali paratrooper bag, new york city, nostalgia, on the media, paper, paris, patsy & edina, pianos, pipe organs, pizza, poland, postcards, prague, public transportation, quiet, rain, rave no 4 hairspray, record shops, russia, school, science friday, scotch, sincerity, soundtrack music, space, staring into space, staying up all night, sympathy, (girls in) tartan skirts, the black lodge, the sea, the stanley cup, thunderstorms, the twentieth century, train stations, travel, v-neck sweaters, wait wait don't tell me, weird dreams
Music
a silver mt zion, american analog set, anita lane, antony and the johnsons, arab strap, the arcade fire, architecture in helsinki, art brut, a whisper in the noise, bardo pond, bedhead, bell orchestre, bowie, bright eyes, broadcast, johnny cash, clap your hands say yeah!, the clash, the clientele, clinic, cocorosie, cocteau twins, codeine, colleen, the cure, destroyer, dirty three, nick drake, echo and the bunnymen, esmerine, the flaming lips, galaxie 500, philip glass, godspeed you black emperor!, guillemots, the innocence mission, interpol, the jesus and mary chain, joanna newsom, joy division, the kills, klima, ladytron, les savy fav, low, lucky pierre, luna, the magnetic fields, mi and l'au, the microphones, migala, mirah, the modern lovers, mogwai, ms. john soda, mum, my bloody valentine, nina nastasia, neutral milk hotel, new order, nick cave and the bad seeds, the notwist, parker and lily, piano magic, pixies, psychedelic furs, rachels, radiohead, ride, shelleyan orphan, the shins, slowdive, the smiths, spacemen 3, spiritualized, stars, stereolab, the sundays, sunset rubdown, yann tiersen, tom waits, the walkmen, the wedding present, yo la tengo, neil young
Authors
kingsley amis, zadie smith, w.h. auden, jonathan lethem, franz kafka, fyodor dostoevsky, mikhail bulkakov, thomas hardy, marilynne robinson, haruki murakami, vladimir nabokov, philip pullman, graham greene, j.l. borges, mervyn peake, aurthur koestler, milan kundera, herman hesse, cervantes, j.d. salinger, e.b. white, charles dickens, philip roth, anton chekhov, umberto eco, lewis carroll, jrr tolkien, f. scott fitzgerald, martin amis, william blake, p.g. wodehouse, w. somerset maugham, flann o'brien, jane austen, john steinbeck, george orwell
Movies
mulholland drive, the proposition, wings of desire, the double life of veronique, the lives of others, ghost world, lost in translation, the conformist, brazil, time bandits, paris texas, afterlife, black cat white cat, underground, the reflecting skin, the tenant, little murders, innocence, blue velvet, sabrina, eraserhead, star wars, the lord of the rings, bottle rocket, sweet and lowdown, two for the road, donnie darko, rushmore, groundhog day, night on earth, vera drake, 2001, quadrophenia, burnt by the sun, goodfellas, dead man, withnail and i, monty pythons, sugar, vertigo, mystery train, city of lost children, the fog of war, the incredibles, lolita (kubrick), aguirre wrath of god, amores perros, annie hall, down by law, a christmas story, mary poppins, roman holiday, rebecca, white, the shining, this is spinal tap, barton fink, red, breakfast at tiffany's
Television
lost, the office (gervais/merchant), twin peaks, the sopranos, prime suspect, extras, the golden girls, all in the family, beavis and butthead, seinfeld, monty python's flying circus, keeping up appearances, masterpiece theatre/mystery!, trigger happy tv, mash, gunsmoke, the wonder years, the wire, antiques roadshow, nova, the decalogue, fawlty towers, dexter's laboratory, family guy, columbo, looney tunes, deputy dog, cowboy bebop, angels in america, northern exposure, absolutely fabulous, the young ones
My Music