Dance, Comedy, Politics, Art, Music, Film, Travel

Fiona Apple, Ani DiFranco, Stereo Lab, Death Cab, Johnny Cash, Tracy Chapman, Counting Crows, Janis Joplin, Alanis Morisette, Lauryn Hill, Billy Holiday, Gwen Stefani, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Tupac, Outkast, Bob Marley, Trick Daddy, U2, Ludacris, Kanye West, Joan Osborne, Tom Petty, Biggie, Stevie Wonder, spleen

Igby Goes Down, The Royal Tenenbaums, Frida, The Big Lebowski, The Pianist, Maria Full of Grace, Hero, Wet Hot American Summer, High Strung, Narnia, Munich, Syriana, No Man's Land, Downfall, Prisoner of the Mountains, Ballad of a Soldier, Goodbye Lenin, Papa, The Thief, Wedding Crashers, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Godfather I&II, Scarface, Milo and Otis, The Little Mermaid, A League of Their Own, Kill Bill

Favorite Authos: Ayn Rand, J.D. Salinger, Steinbeck, Tolstoy, Conroy, Pushkin, Hemmingway, Chekov, Hoffman, Wally Lamb, Judy Blume, David Remnick, Timothy Garton Ash, Robert Service, Orlando Figes, Fitzpatrick, Svetlana Boym, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Camus, Jonathan Safran Foer

Seinfeld, Real Time with Bill Maher, Def Poetry Jam, Project Runway, The Simpsons, Huff, The Daily Show, Grey's Anatomy, the News, South Park, Drawn Together, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Oz, Sex in the City, Friends

"To wonder you can't do it -- you acquiesce to defeat - before you even begin"