My Music
Movies
You've Got Mail, Shawshank Redemption, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wayne's World, Major League, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, Animal House, When Harry Met Sally, Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Donnie Darko, Pulp Fiction, Royal Tenenbaums, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights, Rushmore, Rebel Without a Cause, Super Troopers, Casablanca, Touch of Evil, Manhattan, Dr. Strangelove, The Big Kahuna, The Big Lebowski, Dancer in the Dark, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, etc., etc., etc.
Music
This is an intense subject for me. My absolutely favorite band is Wilco. This is a list of many of the other bands I like. It is in no way comprehensive, and it is in alphabetical order: Abba, AC/DC, Al Green, Alanis Morissette, Alison Krauss, Alkaline Trio, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Amy Winehouse, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Ani Difranco, (The) Anniversary, Apples in Stereo, Appleseed Cast, Arcade Fire, Art Brut, Azure Ray, Bad Brains, Badly Drawn Boy, Band of Horses, Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Kweller, Beth Orton, Bikini Kill, Billie Holiday, Billy Bragg, Bjork, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blondie, (The) Blow, (The) Blue Dogs, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, (The) Books, Boredoms, Boy Least Likely To, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, (The) Brunettes, Buddy Holly, Built To Spill, Cake, Calexico, Camera Obscura, Campfire Girls, Cat Power, Charlie Parker, !!!, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, (The) Clash, Clipse, Coldplay, CCR, Cub, Cursive, Damon and Naomi, David Bowie, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, Decemberists, Deerhoof, Deftones, Deseparecedos, Devendra Banhart, Dismemberment Plan, Distillers, Dixie Chicks, Dolly Parton, DMX, Dntel, Dressy Bessy, Drive-By Truckers, Dusty Springfield, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eels, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Eric B and Rakim, (The) Evens, Exploding Hearts, Explosions in the Sky, Fiona Apple, Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Fugazi, Further Seems Forever, Galaxie 500, Garbage, George Jones, (The) Get Up Kids, Ghostface Killah, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grizzly Bear, Guided By Voices, (The) Handsome Family, Hank Williams, Heavenly, Heroin, (The) Hold Steady, Hüsker Dü, Iggy Pop, Imogen Heap, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jawbreaker, Jenny Lewis, Jets To Brazil, Jimmy Eat World, Joan Jett, Joanna Newsom, John Coltrane, John Lennon, John Vanderslice, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Joy Division, Jump Little Children, (The) Juliana Theory, Kasey Chambers, Kerosene 454, (The) Killers, KOLS, (The) Kinks, KISS, Laura Cantrell, Lavender Diamond, Le Tigre, Lead Belly, Leslie Feist, Letters To Cleo, Lifetime, Lightning Bolt, (old)Liz Phair, (The) Long Winters, Loretta Lynn, Louis Armstrong, Lucinda Williams, Luna, M. Ward, Magnetic Fields, Man Man, Mastodon, Mates of State, Menomena, Metric, Miles Davis, Mineral, Minor Threat, Mr. T Experience, Modest Mouse, Mountain Goats, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, Neil Young, Neko Case, Neutral Milk Hotel, (The) New Pornographers, Nick Drake, Nickel Creek, Nina Simone, Nirvana, (old) No Doubt, Notorious B.I.G., NWA, Oasis, OK GO, Old 97s, Outkast, Patti Smith, Patty Griffin, Paul Simon, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Peter Cetera, Pinback, (The) Pixies, PJ Harvey, Poe, (The) Police, Portishead, Postal Service, Pretenders, Pretty Girls Make Graves, (The) Promise Ring, Public Enemy, Q and Not U, Queen, Radiohead, Radish, Rage Against The Machine, Rainer Maria, Ramones, Rancid, (The) Rapture, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red House Painters, Regina Spektor, Replacements, (The) Rentals, Rhett Miller, Rilo Kiley, Rites of Spring, Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Sage Francis, Sarah McLachlan, Sebadoh, Shea Seger, (The) Shins, Silversun Pickups, Sleater-Kinney, Slint, (The) Slits, Slowdive, Sonic Youth, Sorry About Dresden, Spoon, Stars, Stephen Malkmus, Stereolab, Stooges, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Volt, Sunny Day Real Estate, Taking Back Sunday (well, the first album, anyway), Talking Heads, Team Sleep, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Tegan and Sara, Television, Tender Forever, (The) Thermals, They Might Be Giants, Thursday, Tilly and the Wall, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re, Tupac, TV on the Radio, Uncle Tupelo, (The) Unicorns, Van Morrison, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, (The) Walkmen, Warren Zevon, (The) Weakerthans, Weezer, White Stripes, Will Oldham, Willie Nelson, Wu-Tang Clan, Xiu Xiu, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo
Television
Joan of Arcadia, Popular, Grey's Anatomy, Jeopardy, Sex and the City, Freaks and Geeks, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Boy Meets World, Sports Night, Arrested Development, Seinfeld.
Books
I read most anything I can except science fiction; probably 2-3 books a week. These are some that stand out: Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Chosen, A Practical Handbook for the Actor, The Empty Space, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Oleanna, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Dutchman, Glengarry Glen Ross, True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor, 'night Mother, Crimes of the Heart, Spinning into Butter, Machinal, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, No Exit, King Dork, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, The End of Poverty, Nickel and Dimed, PostSecret Books, The Lord of the Flies, The Metamorphosis, Madame Bovary, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Great Gatsby, The Time Traveler's Wife, Lolita, The God of Small Things, One Hundred Years of Solitude, etc., etc., etc.
Interests
Theatre, Music, Sports, Celebrity Gossip, SGCW, Academia, Literature, Art, Politics, Elitism, Fisting Your Mom.