Music, yay! Beatles, Beck, Ween, Cake, Led Zeppelin, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds Five, Cibo Matto, Zero 7, Pink Floyd, Madonna, Lovemakers, Boingo, Kanye West, Rutles, No Doubt, Eminem, Moby, Smiths, Sinatra, Sheryl Crow, Smokey and Miho, Meat Puppets, Ivy, Sade, Crystal Method, Weezer, Strokes, Cat Power, Stevie Wonder, Dilated Peoples, Depeche Mode, B52s, Bob Marley, Thievery Corp, Sublime, Seal, Lenny Kravitz, Madness, Tenacious D, Steely Dan, Kostars, DJ Shadow, Jem, plus a wide range of more embarassing stuff (Debbie Gibson, Bread, Erasure, Mancini, Kenny Rogers), oldies, classic rock, 80s, and the stuff on MTV2 Subterranean and KCRW. And Billie Holiday ("I love him!").

Kung Fu Hustle, Eternal Sunshine, Kill Bill, Amelie, True Romance, Vacation, Princess Bride, Swingers, Say Anything, Caddyshack, Clueless, Planes Trains and Autos, Grease, the Untouchables, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Poltergeist, Jaws, Wizard of Oz, Close Encounters, the Jerk, Raising Arizona, Iron Giant. The weirder stuff (War of the Gargantuas, Man Bites Dog, Capricorn One, They Went That a Way and That a Way) is in my Top 100 Movies listed in Blog.

lost, studio 60, snl, best week ever, curb your enthusiasm, jeopardy, subterranean, inside the actors' studio, family guy, huell howser, insomniac, reno 911, wonder showzen, simpsons, bad dating shows, seinfeld repeats, sports highlights, and those hbo america undercover documentaries (i.e. real sex taxicab shock prison hooker ecstacy autopsies 3)

TV Guide (ha!). Mostly nonfiction (travel guides, books of lists, maps, dictionaries, biographical), humor (the onion is amazing), Memorable reads: Monster at the End of This Book (first book), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and James & Giant Peach (inspiration to write), Watchmen (favorite book ever), my Stephen King/William Goldman/John Irving phase in my late teens, Clive Barker's Weaveworld, Alive, Rules of Attraction, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse