Bad Religion, Tom Waits, Interpol, Gram Parsons, Radiohead, Junior Boys, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Dinosaur Jr, Depeche Mode, the Beatles and Stones and Bowie (duh.), the Ramones, the Clash and the Sex Pistols, GOTH, lowrider oldies, Public Enemy, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding etc - anything really, except world music, "Pretty Woman" or the Righteous Bros. listening to now: LDC Soundsystem, Grizzly Bear, new FOB (thx Sue!), the Good, the Bad and the Queen, the Knife

the first first Star Wars

i like books about Africa, also Jim Thompson, Truman Capote, Dashiell Hammett and crime novels in general, Thomas not Tom Wolfe, almost any 19th century Russian and also Nabokov, Zola, Vonnegut, Hardy, Maugham, Murakami, Neal Stephenson, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Graham Greene and Tenessee Williams. Loved in 2006: Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Road by Cormac McCarthy, Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, Prisoner of X by Allan MacDonell