| General | Modern Art, Pre-Bop Jazz, making poems, red wine, xian apologists, children's books illustrated with absurdly accomplished paintings; those watercolors made mostly as line drawings but with one or two suggestive splashes of color; Seattle. | | Music | Bloomsday, Poor Old Lu, Damien Jurado, Pedro the Lion, Super Deluxe, Braden Blake, Aaron Sprinkle, Dolour, Rocky Votolato, Strokes, Radiohead, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Carla Bruni, Hum, Mineral, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Red House Painters, Jake Armerding, Jeremy Enigk, Joe Christmas, Over the Rhine, Sigur Ros, Spoon, The Youth Group, Silversun Pickups | | Movies | The Big Lebowski, Boondock Saints, Northfork, Closer, Les Triplettes de Belleville, Punch-Drunk Love, Pirates of the Carribean, Andrei Tarkovsky, Rouge, Bleu, The Mirror, Casablanca, It Happened One Night, Buffalo 66, Eternal Gaze, Fight Club, Amelie, Angels in America, La Belle Reve des Agnes, L'Homme du Train, La Vita e Bella, | | Television | On the advice of certain bumper-stickers, I killed mine. | | Books | Yes, Please | | Heroes | Ranier Maria Rilke, Oscar Wilde, Hemingway, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim, my dad. |
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