MUSIC I ADORE: The Decemberists
The Decemberists: My number one.
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart: Probably the best of the bearded
Alex Parks
Alex Parks: just listen to 'Mad World', then tell me she's not completely fabulous. Just try.
Alex Parks - Mad World
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants: Rock-awesome Chess Piece Faces
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor: Just duh.
Bon Iver
Bon Iver: Gorgeous Wisconsonian winter creation
Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt: The Most beautiful music I have ever heard.
CocoRosie
CocoRosie: The weirdest Sister-singing combo I've EVER heard.
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird: The most proficient whistler I've ever heard.
The Dittybops
The Dittybops: Cross-country bicycle tours, acoustic guitars, what more can I say?
Vetiver
Vetiver: They're softer than they look.
Rosie Thomas
Rosie Thomas: Soft and quiet, yet intensely powerful
Espers
Espers: Transcendental Folk Rock. Brilliant.
The Shins
The Shins: I liked them before Gardenstate
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom: Yelpy and celticy. Suprisingly postmodern
Sia
Sia: Like Imogen Heap, but not. And way better.
Iron & Wine
Iron & Wine: The best bearded born outside Texas. Made whispering cool again.
Band of Horses
Band of Horses: They're just... wonderful, okay!
Nina Nastasia
Nina Nastasia: She just makes wonderful music. Even though she looks like she belongs behind a Macy*s jewelry counter.
She and Him
She And Him: M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel. (yes, them) It's easy to make it when you're already famous.
Other Music I Like Is:
MOVIES I WANT TO MARRY: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind: Everyone with a brain's favorite movie, and rightly so
Heima: Sigur Ros
Heima: Sigur Ros. This movie completely changed the way I think about Aesthetics
Man On The Moon
Man On The Moon: Andy Kaufman saw this last week and laughed.
Garden State
Garden State: Pubescent, valid. But it's still really good.
Waiting for Guffman
Waiting for Guffman: I heart Chris Guest
I Heart Huckabees
I Heart Huckabees: Existentially delicious.
The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things: Surprising and Labutian, Yet still very Accessible.
ONCE
ONCE: These two platonic Irishfolks make gorgeous music and are great actors as well.
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko: The best superhero movie I've ever seen
Synecdoche: New York
Synecdoche: New York: Charlie Kaufman's Dir. debut. Brilliant. That's all
The Fountain
The Fountain. Brain twisting and heart-melting.
Conversation(s) with Other Women
Conversation(s) with Other Women: it's split screen and it's amazing...
Doubt
Doubt: Brilliant, thought provoking and it has an amazing cast.
Flying Karamazov Brothers
Flying Karamazov Brothers: They juggle and have mustaches. it's a riot!
Death to Smoochy
Death to Smoochy: Gentry showed it to me. He paused it at all the dirty jokes and asked me if I understood them a little, a lot or not at all. Then he made sure I understood all of them. Plus, it has a really good 'morale'
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Plan 9 From Outer Space: Wow Ed Wood... Wow
Other Movies I Like:
ON T.V. I WATCH Planet Earth
Planet Earth: Thank heavens Alisatair Fothergill had the foresight.
Arrested Development
Arrested Development: The mere fact that it was cancelled means they're not ready.
30 Rock
30 Rock: 'Nuff said. . . "Meat is the new bread"
Man V. Food
Man V. Food. I will be Adam Richman when I grow up..Put that in the bank.
Pushing Dasies
Pushing Dasies: Life's better at the pie hole
Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers: described once as the "quintessential Television show" I agree.
Red Dwarf
Red Dwarf: Smeg off, I like it.
Jeeves and Wooster
Jeeves and Wooster: Fry and Laurie, English and... Very English
Blackadder
Blackadder: So I like British comedies, sue me.
The Office
The Office: British and American. I do both. That's what she said.
Good Eats
Good Eats: Alton Brown is the Alex Trebeck of Foods. But prettier
Man V.S. Wild
Man V.S. Wild: Bear Grylls is Butch, and naked alot.
Other T.V. I Like
The Simpsons: Of Course. I'm American, aren't I?A Few Plays I Like
- --Zoo Story- Edward Albee
- --You Can't Take It With You - Moss Hart, George Kaufman
- --Wrecks - Neil Labute
- --Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee
- --Ubu Roi - Alfred Jarry
- --Top Girls -Caryl Churchill
- --Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (TMLMTBGB) - The Neo Futurists
- --Tiny Alice - Edward Albee
- --The Zig-Zag Woman -Steve Martin
- --The Shape of Things - Neil Labute
- --The Pillowman-Martin McDonaugh
- --The Nature and purpose of the Universe - Christopher Durang
- --The Mercy Seat - Neil Labute
- --The Man who came to Dinner - George Kaufman & Moss Hart
- --The Lieutenant of Inishmore - Martin McDonaugh
- --The Goat, or Who is Sylvia - Edward Albee
- --The Cripple of Inishmaan- Martin McDonaugh
- --The Birthday Party -Harold Pinter
- --The Bald Soprano- Eugene Ionesco
- --Some Girl(s) -Neil Labute
- --Sister Mary Ignatious Explains it all For You -Christopher Durang
- --Rhinocerous - Eugene Ionesco
- --Proof - David Auburn
- --Patter for the Floating Lady - Steve Martin
- --My Head was a Sledgehammer (unedited text) - Richard Foreman
- --Mother Courage and her Children - Bertold Brecht
- --Miss Witherspoon - Christopher Durang
- --Lisbon Traviata - Terrence McNally
- --John and Mary Doe - Christopher Durang
- --Galileo- Bertold Brecht
- --Endgame-Samuel Beckett
- --Doubt - John Patrick Shanely
- --BASH:Latter Day Plays - Neil Labute
- --Baby and the Bathwater - Christopher Durang
- --August :Osage County - Tracy Letts
- --Angels in America p.1 &p.2 - Tony Kushner
- --All My Sons -Arthur Miller
- --Act Witahout Words 2 -Samuel Beckett
- --'dentity Crisis -Christopher Durang
- -- 'Night Mother - Marsha Norman
