A lot of it, yes. And I have strong opinions about much of it. I tend to hop genres a lot, but I can usually be trusted to land periodically on something that someone calls punk.
Movies
It feels like I've seen a lot of movies, but it seems every time someone mentions one, it's one I haven't seen.
Television
Angel, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Doctor Who, The Dresden Files, Firefly, Heroes, House M.D., Lost, M*A*S*H, Planet Earth, Scrubs, Six Feet Under, Sports Night, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars, The West Wing, Wonderfalls, The X-Files...serial TV is one of my very favorite things, but I see very few as they were intended -- an episode a week, spread over several months. I won't reschedule my life to allow for a show and I don't have TiVo (don't even have cable) so I tend to just wait for the DVDs and marathon an entire season at once.
Books
I don't read for pleasure very often, really. Recently, I've read the three books in Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series (which are not nearly so atheistic as I had been lead to believe), Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" (which, despite the years of rave reviews, I found pretty dull any time the action wasn't entirely centered on Joe), and Peter Beagle's "The Innkeeper's Song" (calling it Fantasy meets Faulkner isn't quite accurate, but it borrows a bit of American modernism's obsession with multiple viewpoints and the subjectivity of truth).
About me: I am, perhaps foremost, a member of that generation whose primary language is pop culture. I recall that, when I was 17, I attempted to write a play about a guy who only spoke in movie quotes, song lyrics, TV catchphrases, etc. A vocabulary composed entirely of things already said. It seemed a suitably novel idea to my 17 year old mind, and perhaps it still is (though Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have taken similar notions to more entertaining ends), especially as it was framed in the play as a sort of mental illness. Not the sort you're likely to find in the DSM, but still, one that is endemic to people of about my age and education. When Newsweek says that Geek Culture has become Mass Culture, I think this is really what they're talking about.
I don't know that Newsweek has ever said any such thing.
But they might have.
Who I'd like to meet: This is a stupid section -- if there were people I wanted to meet, wouldn't I just go meet them? -- and I have previously left if blank, but without any text here, it looks as though I'm answering this question with the video linked below.
