| General | As long as it's good. Movies, comics, books, TV, music. And just because your fiction is serious, doesn't mean it's serious fiction. | | Music | The Darth Vader theme, Badly Drawn Boy, old Prince when he had the good pouty lips, Run DMC, the Superman theme, Beastie Boys, U2, Propellerheads, the theme to St. Elsewhere, that song from Tootsie that makes me cry like a beat puppy, Sally That Girl by Miami Bass Waves -- even though it sucks, and Patton Oswalt's new album. | | Movies | Annie Hall, Raising Arizona, Heathers, Star Wars and Empire, Grease, About A Boy, Three Kings, Election, The Royal Tenenbaums, Animal House, The Big Lebowski, Time Bandits (seemed so damn cool when I was little), Manhattan, ET, The Graduate. | | Television | Freaks & Geeks, Lost, Arrested Development, St. Elsewhere, Sopranos, My So-Called Life, Sports Night, Buffy, Twin Peaks, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Cheap Seats, Batman the TV show (still love it, nah, nah on you), the really freaky X-Files episodes where they dealt with the big picture stuff, South Park. | | Books | To name just a few: Alan Moore, Spaulding Gray, Will Eisner, Harper Lee, Michael Chabon, Joss Whedon, Brian Vaughn, Judd Winick, Geoff Johns, Allan Heinberg, Damon Lindelof, Warren Ellis, Mark Millar, Brian Bendis, Junot Diaz, Dahlia Lithwick. | | Heroes | Jim Henson: Creatively brilliant, ruthlessly funny, the top of his game, and he gave it all to work in public television. For children. That's just plain cool to me. And my grandfather, Ben Rubin. |
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