open book - see all 2

the glory that is "Pan's" Mar 23

coming soon: thoughts on the film "Pan's Labyrinth", directed by Guillermo del Toro

acquaintances - see all 9

coteries - see all 1

noisebox

music

a small taste-- the album leaf, american analog set, anathallo, andrew bird, the appleseed cast, aqualung, the ascent of everest, beck, bela fleck, belle & sebastian, björk, the black keys, bloc party, bob dylan, the books, bright eyes, broken social scene, danielson, david bazan, dj rebate, cake, calexico, cat power, chad vangaalen, clem snide, daft punk, damien jurado, damien rice, the decemberists, denison witmer, destroyer, devendra banhart, deVotchka, discover america, dntel, eddie from ohio, eisley, elbow, elliott smith, engineers, ester drang, explosions in the sky, fiona apple, the fire theft, the flaming lips, the foo fighters, the format, foxhole, the gloria record, godspeed you! black emperor, great lake swimmers, hem, hundred hands, the imaginary baseball league, interpol, iron & wine, jeff buckley, joanna newsom, johnny cash, josé gonzález, joseph arthur, josh ritter, juana molina, kings of convenience, the long winters, lovedrug, low, m. ward, the mars volta, mazzy star, mewithoutYou, modest mouse, mogwai, the mountain goats, my brightest diamond, my morning jacket, neutral milk hotel, the new pornographers, nick drake, owen, pavement, pedro the lion, pj harvey, the polyphonic spree, the raconteurs, ratatat, ravi shankar, red house painters, rem, ryan adams, saxon shore, the shins, sigur rós, the six parts seven, spoon, stars, sufjan stevens, sun kil moon, the talking heads, they might be giants, tom waits, tortoise, tunng, tw walsh, unwed sailor, where there is fire we will carry gasoline, wilco, wolf parade AND MORE

films

in no order of preference-- Waking Ned Divine, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rushmore, Lathe of Heaven, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Amélie, Waking Life, Coffee and Cigarettes, Slacker, A Very Long Engagement, Everything is Illuminated, Lost in Translation, Billy Elliot, A Love Song for Bobby Long, The Royal Tenenbaums, About a Boy, High Fidelity, The City of Lost Children, Indiana Jones series, October Sky, any Monty Python (especially the actual episodes), any Star Wars, any Coen brothers, so so so many more

boob tube

the office, heroes, law & order, the black donnellys, dirty jobs, america's next top model, project runway, home improvement/design type programs

written words

in no order of preference-- One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Winter of Our Discontent, lots of poetry, A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Stargirl, The Bone Woman, The Metamorphosis and other stories by Kafka