| General | Writing, books, travel, hiking, biking, cats, world peace, cooking, movies, my girlfriend | | Music | Belle and Sebastian, Duke Ellington, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Thelonius Monk | | Movies | Casablanca, Seven Samurai, Jaws, Aliens, Office Space, or anything by Kurosawa, Chaplin, Christopher Guest, Kubrick, or the Coen brothers, or anything with lots of stuff blowing up. I'm easy to please. | | Television | Arrested Development (I don't care if it's cancelled--I'll just watch the old ones over and over again), Sopranos, Battlestar Galactica, Curb Your Enthusiasm. | | Books | Just about anything you put in front of me, really. 10 all-time favorites: Moby-Dick, Ragtime, Invisible Man, Pale Fire, A Suitable Boy, A Wizard of Earthsea, Interpreter of Maladies, Huck Finn, MOO, Guns, Germs and Steel, the Master and Margarita. Recent favorites: Independence Day, the Human Stain, Money. On the thriller end: any Stephen King, Sue Grafton, Ed McBain, Gregory McDonald, Dashiell Hammett, Ian Fleming, Elmore Leonard, or Preston/Child. | | Heroes | SpiderMan, Jimmy Stewart, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nicholas Kristof, Will Arnett, Mark Twain, Jimmy Carter, Stephen Colbert |
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