| General | live music, recorded music, the music in my head, wasting time, reading, trying to cook, foreign languages, dreaming about travel, things that make me laugh a lot, good films, good wine, running along the creek, photography, dinner at sidewalk tables, being cozy on cold nights with full moons. | | Music | Beatles, Beck, Bowie, Blondie, Belle &; Sebastian, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds, Billy Bragg, Bjork, Brendan Benson, Brookville.
Oh, and some artists whose names don't start with "B" also:
Kings of Convenience/Erlend Oye, The Ocean Blue, The Lilac Time/Stephen Duffy, The Trashcan Sinatras, Air, Getz/Gilberto/Jobim, Doves, Echo &; the Bunnymen, Elvis Costello, James, Prince, Luna, Michael Penn, Paul Simon, Ella, John, and Miles. | | Movies | Amelie, Trainspotting, High Fidelity, Next Stop Wonderland, Lost in Translation, Reality Bites, Mad Hot Ballroom, Cinema Paradiso... | | Books | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer--please read this book, you won't be disappointed. In fact, you should also read his first book, Everything is Illuminated. I put it off because of the hype, but it was well-deserved. Also, a recent favorite is Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking". |
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