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Pajiba's Interests
General
Music
Sandy Rowles, Ben Folds, Elvis Costello, Ryan Adams, Neil Finn, The Killers, Dylan, Old Crowe Medicine Show, Joshua Radin, Glen Phillips, Patty Griffin, White Stripes, Beck, Ben Lee, Springsteen, Clem Snide, Wilco, Damien Rice, Ed Harcourt, Foo Fighters, GNR, The Jayhawks, Whiskeytown, Old 97s, Liz Phair, Marah, Michael Penn, Mutual Admiration Society, Nancy Wilson, Paul Westerberg, Pete Yorn, Robert Downey, Jr., Sam Cooke, Travis, Weezer, William Shatner, Aimee Mann, Uncle Tupelo, XTC.
Movies
Cameron Crowe, Wes Anderson, Billy Wilder, David Fincher, High Fidelity, Serenity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Double Indemnity, Zero Effect, David O' Russell, Curtis Hanson, Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Donnie Brasco, Charlie Kaufmann, Tarantino, Kubrick, American Beauty, V for Vendetta, The Third Man, Donnie Darko, The Graduate, Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead, Christopher Nolan.
Television
Freaks and Geeks, Veronica Mars, Battlestar Gallactica, Boston Legal, The Office, Survivor, Amazing Race, Arrested Development, Scrubs, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Friday Night Lights, Deadwood, The Wire, Weeds, Theif, Nip/Tuck, Lost, Entourage, Sports Night, Firefly, West Wing, Gilmore Girls, Buffy, Rescue Me, The Job, Wonder Years, 24.
Books
Michael Chabon, Chuck Klostermann, Jonathon Lethem, Jonathon Franzen, Nick Hornby, Dave Eggers, Frank Portman, Zadie Smith, Anne Tyler, Joseph Heller, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Mamet, David Foster Wallace, Steve Martin, Jeffrey Eugenides, Bret Easton Ellis, Richard Russo, Peter Garulnick, Aimee Bender, Phillip Roth, Peter Garulnick, Adam Langer, Jancee Dunn, Sarah Vowell, Douglas Copeland, Jonothan Coe, Marisha Pessl, Hunter Thompson, Early John Irving ...
For reasons we'd rather not go into, we can't actually tell you what Pajiba means but, should Pajiba catch fire and become a national phenomenon, we would like you to know that it is pronounced as follows:
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For those of you who skipped fourth-grade grammar and have no idea what a schwa is, we'll make it simple: Pajiba sounds like a part of the female anatomy, which makes it an awfully enjoyable word to say (try it, out loud, in your cubicle). Any other pronunciation makes us bristle, hack, and contort our faces in very unpleasant ways
Based ostensibly in Ithaca, New York, Pajiba has offices (and by "offices," we mean guys and gals writing reviews on kitchenette tables in their overpriced hovels or in their cubicles during office hours) in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Boston, Tulsa, small-town Pennsylvania, and even Fayetteville, Arkansas A complete list of our regular staff members can be found here. If you lurk in the comments section for any length of time, you'll also notice that we have several regular commenters (often referred to as The Eloquents) who make quite a few valuable contributions to the Pajiba experience.
Who I'd like to meet: Letterman, Cintra Wilson, Chabon, Eggers, Hornby, Klostermann, Hunter Thompson, Sorkin, Cameron Crowe, Ben Folds, Foer, Coupland, David E. Kelly.
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That's the only thing I learned in first grade. I still remember the poster with a sentence and graphic somehow incorporating all of those elements in a bizarre circus seal balancing act.
Thanks for overlooking the fact that Lil Abner is on my favorite movies list and adding me anyway! We won't even discuss my not-so-secret love of Mama's Family...
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