Books: I used to be very bookish, but now I read for work mostly.
Which means I read mostly online. When it's a book, it's usually
non-fiction examining current affairs, technology trends or
organizational theory and leadership. The last great book I
finished was The Foundation: A Great American Secret by Joel L.
Fleishman. I've been slowly working my way through Stephenson's
Baroque Cycle, which is a lot of fun when I turn to it.
Movies: I love them - good ones, bad ones. Favorites include Happy
Endings, Fight Club, Waiting for Guffman, Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind. I love great (and sometimes mediocre) sci-fi: Blade
Runner, Brazil, Alien. Most recent film I've seen in the theater:
The Muppets, which was nearly perfect except for the Moopets
component, which seemed tinged with some unfortunate racial
subtext.
On the iPod: Active Child, Air, Amy Winehouse, Animal Collective,
The Apples in Stereo, The Arcade Fire, Asobi Seksu, Astral, Austra,
Beach House, Blonde Redhead, Blur, Bow Wow Wow, Brian Eno, Broken
Bells, Broken Social Scene, Bryan Ferry, Caribou, CEO, Corpus
Callosum, The Cure, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, David Byrne & Brian
Eno, Death Cab for Cutie, Echo & the Bunnymen, Electralane, The
Fall, Fleet Foxes, Florence & the Machine, Ghostland
Observatory, Girl Talk, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, The Gossip, Hot Chip,
Iggy Pop, INXS, Islands, Joanna Newsom, John Vanderslice, Joy
Division, The Killers, Kinski, The Knife, Kraftwerk, Ladytron,
Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, The Magnetic Fields, Menomena, MGMT, New
Order, The New Pornographers, The Notwist, Of Montreal, Yoko Ono,
Owen Pallett, P.J. Harvey, Panda Bear, Phoenix, The Radio
Department, Radiohead, The Shins, Spoon, Tears for Fears, These New
Puritans, Viva Voce, Williamson, The XX. Seems like all that's
missing to represent my major musical faves are The Beatles, Elliot
Smith, Rufus Wainwright and Nick Drake.
Food: I love to cook, I love to eat, I love restaurants. I was a
vegetarian for 8 years, now exploring a wider palate. Favorites
include Thai, French, American Southern, almost any seafood. I'll
eat anything except for an oddball mix of distastes: sushi (don't
like nori or raw fish, so I'm screwed in this category), oysters,
cucumbers (it's a texture thing - the taste I love - cucumber vodka
martinis = yum).
