Gomez, Los Aterciopelados, Andrea Echeverri, Beck, Cat Power, Los Lobos, eels, Cake, the Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Crowded House, Neil Finn, Michael Penn, Sheryl Crow, Cannonball Adderley, Steve Tibbetts, Zero/Steve Kimock, David Byrne, Talking Heads, The Old 97s/Rhett Miller, The Redwalls, David Bowie (he really is a golden god), Elvis Costello, Zero 7, Sia Furler, Cibo Matto, Spoon, Cornershop, Scissor Sisters, The BeeGees, Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush, The Roches, Bill Monroe (the Father of Bluegrass Music), David Grisman, Laurie Lewis, Hot Rize, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Mozart, Bach, Bill Evans, Ananda Shankar, k.d. lang, The Who, The Stones, The Band, The Pretenders, Macy Gray, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, The Isley Brothers, Curtis Mayfield, Butterfield Blues Band, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Michael Franti and Spearhead. Claim to fame: sat on Janis Joplin's piano as a kid, during a show in the Haight in about 1968.
Movies
Where to begin? Star Wars? Blade Runner? Tommy? Wings of Desire? The French Lieutenant's Woman? Cactus Flower? Raising Arizona? Easy Rider? Juno? Movies have always brought a promise (and threat), continually reminding me that there's more to see and feel and do than I could ever have dreamed of on my own. What's great of late is finally seeing what it is I dream up on my own.
So lacking the day it would take to list all the films that are important to , here are some of my favorite music-centered films: Tommy (saw it eight times at age 11 and a few more after that), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Purple Rain (even with the bad acting and cliches, it's brilliant), Almost Famous (I'm partial to the longer bootleg cut, Untitled), 24-Hour Party People; movies featuring music/musicians: Stop Making Sense (perhaps the greatest concert film I have ever seen, and I've not only seen a lot of film but also been to a lot more concerts), The Last Waltz, In the Shadows of Motown, Les Paul: Chasing Sound, Twist, (a must-see) Tom Dowd and the Language of Music (a must-see), and it was fun seeing Ray after seeing some of those music documentaries, and Dig! is awesome.
Television
Not much, these days. Have liked Aaron Sorkin (esp. Sports Night), Six Feet Under, Weeds, Joan of Arcadia (I'm a sucker for some teen drama -- even DeGrassi Junior High had me in its thrall for a while), Hill Street Blues, Gilmore Girls, e.r.
Tried Arrested Development. It's okay. I feel kinda charmed but kinda indifferent. I can see where a lot of inspiration for the pace and snap of the dialogue in Juno came from.
Books
Authors: Classics: Dickens, Kate Chopin, Mary Hodgson Burnett, Louisa Alcott, the Bronte Sisters; contemporary: Thomas Perry, Sara Paretsky, Lee Child, Cornelia Read, Jodi Picoult, Ann Patchett, Gina Kolata, Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin (and how!), Peter Kramer, the Freakonomics guys, Atul Gawande, Daniel Gilbert, Greg Critsell (who is way more fun to read than Eric Schlosser), Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Hoffman, Jennifer Weiner, Deborah Crombie, Anne Perry, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Heroes
Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Sunil Prakash and Cherie Clark, Diablo Cody, Gomez, Neil Finn, and just about everyone on the Gomez board
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Who I'd like to meet: Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, my Grandmother who died a few years ago, my Oma who died when I was 13, my sister Audrey again -- geez, I'm a little ghoulish today. Also: Diablo Cody. (And while we're at it, I'd like to put DC in a room with Gomez and see if we could come up with a rock opera about the pharmaceutical industry.)
