I was skipping this question, because a friend, when I asked her
about what sort of books I should list.. she started ranting, about
this one guy, who had a pretty cool profile. And she liked
everything in it. Except! The first book he listed was Stranger in
a Strange Land. Then she ranted about that book, and how Heinlein
is terrible, but not quite terrible enough to dig up his corpse and
punch it. So because of this book, she didn't message the
guy.
Now let me just say.. I've never read Stranger in a Strange Land,
and I never will, because I don't roll like that.
But now I'm answering, so you actually have some idea what sorts of
things I like.
Books: Phillip K. Dick (VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Three
Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch), Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions,
Slapstick), Asimov, Robert Cormier (Fade), Piers Anthony, Terry
Pratchett (my go to for airplane reading)
Movies: Fight Club, Six String Samurai, Scott Pilgrim vs the World,
Star Wars, The Matrix, Speed Racer, Curse of the Golden Flower,
Death Proof, The Informant, The Lives of Others (Das Leben der
Anderen)
Shows: Twin Peaks, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Torchwood, Firefly,
Buffy, Aeon Flux, Community, Trigun, Nadesico, Cowboy Bebop,
Princess Mononoke, The IT Crowd, Castle, Cougar Town, Parks and
Recreation
Music: Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Nirvana, Cake, the Indelicates, Cage the
Elephant, Bjork, Regina Spektor, Madonna, The Ramones, Johnny Cash,
Rage Against the Machine, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Murder
Ballads)
Video Games: Borderlands, Gears of War, Shin Megami Tensei:
Persona, Fallout, Oblivion, Katamari Damacy, Rock Band,
Transformice
Web Comics: xkcd, Girl Genius, Erfworld
Currently reading Hitherby Dragons (http://imago.hitherby.com), an
ongoing piece of fiction posted as a blog. I love its mixture of
religous symbolism, mythology, fairy tales, nerdy pop culture,
silliness, and seriousness.
