Things I Love and Might Blog About

TV

  • Skins (UK)
  • Freaks and Geeks
  • Seinfeld
  • Community
  • 30 Rock
  • Glee
  • Arrested Development
  • Mad Men
  • Veronica Mars
  • Party Down
  • Parks and Recreation
  • Top Chef
  • SYTYCD
  • SNL
  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    Movies

    • Wes Anderson
    • Old musicals
    • Comedies of all shapes and sizes
    • Quentin Tarantino
    • John Hughes
    • Elia Kazan
    • films directed by ladies
    • French films
    • Doris Day films
    • Harry Potter
    • Christopher Guest mockumentaries
    • Pixar/Disney

      Books/Writing

      • Slam poetry
      • Flash fiction
      • Sarah Vowell
      • David Sedaris
      • screenwriting
      • lots of others (seriously, I’m a writer, it’s a mixed bag)

        Music

        • Rilo Kiley and Jenny Lewis
        • old jazz singers (especially Ella Fitzgerald)
        • Broadway and more broadway
        • Electronica/dance music
        • Hip-hop
        • Folk(ish) music
        • Joni Mitchell and Carole King
        • New indie surf rock (a la Best Coast, Surfer Blood, etc.)
        • Dirty, crunchy indie rock (a la Sleigh Bells, The Kills, etc.)
        • Specifically:  Spoon, Dusty Springfield, Little Boots, Santigold, Horse Feathers, Janelle Monae, Regina Spektor, Of Montreal, the New Pornographers, Miike Snow, the xx, Andrew Bird, Florence and the Machine, Joanna Newsom, Le Tigre, Robyn, Laura Marling, Queen, Phoenix, the Clash, Marina and the Diamonds, Childish Gambino, Yeasayer, Bon Iver, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Vampire Weekend, Kanye West, Madonna, Jefferson Airplane, Woodhands, the Velvet Underground, Passion Pit, the bird and the bee, Grizzly Bear, The Mountain Goats, Arctic Monkeys, The Supremes, The Beatles, The Carpenters, the Bee Gees, Beyonce, The Decemberists, Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, and Feist.

          Politics - I specifically think I’m a democratic socialist, but it’s safer to say I lean way left

          Feminism

          Gay rights/gender/sexuality

          Social justice in general

          Religion (I’m a lapsed Nazarene and not too keen on the God thing)