| General | Reading zines, books, comics, magazines, newspapers, etc.
Knitting and crocheting and cross-stitching and making things. Going to art galleries. Going to the cinema. Going places I haven't been before. Meeting interesting people.
I also like Bill Bailey, Margaret Cho, Eddie Izzard. | | Music | Christina Aguilera, Anal Cookie, Aphex Twin, Atari Teenage Riot, Autechre, Beastie Boys, Biftek, Bjork, Patric C, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Chemical Brothers, Chicks on Speed, Client, Curse Ov Dialect, Destiny's Child, Elastica, Hanin Elias, Missy Elliot, Alec Empire, Faithless, Goldfrapp, PJ Harvey, Miss Kitten, Kraftwerk, Lady Sovereign, Ladytron, Leftfield, The Liars, Love of Diagrams, Macromantics, Madonna, Merzbow, M.I.A., Morrissey, ooioo, Peaches, Pet Shop Boys, Piney Gir, Pink, Julie Ruin, Scissor Sisters, Sleater Kinney, The Smiths, Le Tigre, Underworld, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. | | Movies | Let the assumption be made that when a film is based on a book, the book is ALWAYS *better* unless otherwise stated: Amelie, Boys Don't Cry, But I'm a Cheerleader, Clerks, Cunnamulla, Dark City, Desperately Seeking Susan, Donnie Darko, Elephant, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Frieda, Garden State, Ghostbusters, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Grave of the Fireflies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Howl's Moving Castle, Kids, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Lost in Translation, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Napolean Dynamite, the Neverending Story, the Night Watch, Office Space, Pi, Princess Mononoke, the Royal Tenanbaums, Secretary, Spirited Away, Until the End of the World, V for Vendetta, the Wicker Man (the one from the 70s), Wings of Desire.
*of course, "better" is purely subjective. and those of us who lurrve reading, always think 'the book was better'* | | Television | Aeon Flux, Astroboy, the Baby Psychic, Black Books, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carnivale, CSI, Degrassi High, Degrassi Junior High, Father Ted, Futurama, Grange Hill, Inspector Gadget, The IT Crowd, Kimba the White Lion, Lost, Malcolm in the Middle, Marmalade Atkins, Monkey, Sesame Street, Scrubs, Spaced | | Books | Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey Brown, Lewis Carrol, Angela Carter, Roald Dahl, Diane DiMassa, Cory Doctorow, Julie Doucet, Neil Gaiman, The Guerrilla Girls, Nick Hornby, Ursula Le Guin, CS Lewis (the Narnia Chronicles, not his religious nonfiction stuff), McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Alan Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, Harvey Pekar, Sylvia Plath, Terry Pratchett, Michele Roberts, Marjane Satrapi, Shaun Tan, Michele Tea, Osamu Tezuka, Craig Thompson, Chris Ware, Jeanette Winterson, Diana Wynne Jones | | Heroes | My Friends - especially the ones who helped out in dark times.
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