I'm a cool dork and a smart ditz.

Sleater-Kinney, Spoon, Kelley Stoltz, Hot Snakes, Aislers Set, Scrabbel, The Wrens, The Shins, The Court & Spark, Rilo Kiley, Les Savy Fav, Pixies, 60's ska and rocksteady, The Specials, The Tyrades, The Rondelles, Elliott Smith, Kraftwerk, Camera Obscura (UK), Death Cab For Cutie, Palomar, &etc...

Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Valley Girl, Evil Dead2, Rushmore, Dazed&Confused, Amelie, The Forbidden Zone, Desperately Seeking Susan, Spirited Away, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, This Is Spinal Tap, Pretty In Pink, Real Genius

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, Mr. Show, Tenacious D, King of the Hill, The Powerpuff Girls, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, Antiques Roadshow, Fishing With John, AbFab, friends' HBO...(I don't actually watch television)

Haruki Murakami, Thomas Pynchon, Cortazar, David Foster-Wallace, David Eggers, Margaret Atwood, Neil Stephenson, Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Italo Calvino, Michael Powell, Garcia-Marquez, Banana Yoshimoto, Lorca, Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Confederacy of Dunces, George R.R. Martin, A.S. Byatt, Philip K. Dick, D.H. Lawrence, Louis de Bernières, &, etc...h