1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6. The Sea – John Banville
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point – David Markson
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mit...

• Vanilla Ice - The Knitting Factory
• Juice Newton - The Orange County Fair
• Kevin Federline -West Hollywood Halloween Festival
• R.E.M. -The Pond
• Bush and No Doubt -The Pond
• My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult -(twice!)The Galaxy
• The Cure -The Greek
• The Mars Volta and The Pixies -somewhere in Santa Barbara, I think?
• The Mars Volta -The Greek
• Coldplay -The Greek, Verizon Amphitheater
• Madonna -Staples Center
• Prince -...

• The Secret of Nimh - My Tio Ramon used to play this for us whenever he was stuck with babysitting and it worked like gangbusters. We'd be enthralled, sitting happily through two or three viewings in a day.
• The Dark Crystal - Some of it scared me, but I was hooked.
• The Last Unicorn - A lot of the subject matter was a little too complex for me to follow as a child but what did it matter? It was a whol...

A lot of these are books I've read before. I do that all the time - I'll read a book over and over until I've got half the thing memorized, and then I won't touch it for years.

• The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
• Midwives - Chris Bohjalian
• Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
• The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
• The Gunslinger - Stephen King
• Imajica - Clive Barker
• Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
• The Blind A...

Children's books or adult fiction... There are a million trillion science fiction novels that I can include but I'm going to try and stick with the classics, those that are unarguably dystopian as well as science fiction.

• 1984
• Handmaid's Tale
• The Time Machine
• Fahrenheit 451
• Oryx and Crake
• V For Vendetta
• I Am Legend
• Perdido Street Station

Cyberpunk, anime, or post-apocolyptic, if the world's a mess, I love it.

• The City Of Lost Children
• Bladerunner
• Dark City
• Metropolis
• Logan's Run
• Delicatessen
• Escape From New York
• Pleasantville
• The Matrix
• Battle Royale
• Akira
• Equilibrium
• Gattaca
• Aliens
• Waterworld
• 12 Monkeys
• Serenity
• Code 46
• Planet of the Apes (with Charleton Heston)
• Children of Men
• Brazil
• Tank Girl

• Salesgirl at two gift shops
• Salesgirl at three clothing stores
• Waitress at eight restaurants
• Manager at one restaurant
• Hostess at one restaurant
• Princess at a theme park
• Photographer
• Actor
• Voice actor
• Special Effects company grunt
• Make up artist
• Video ho
• Dog walker
• Shlepper of ice cream
• Store mannequin
• Teacher
• Caterer
• House roofer
• Seamstress

I was pretty loyal to one guy throughout high school. We didn't actually date until college, but I was loyal nonetheless. Earlier crushes, however...

1. Michael M. In kindergarten, he used to play Star Wars with his friends. I'd always get the Princess Leah action figure. They'd stick me in terrible danger, then go off to make rescue plans. The plans would take up the entire playtime and the whole tim...

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923
• Ninotchka 1939
• Les Enfants du Paradis 1945
• An American in Paris 1951
• Sabrina 1954
• Love in the Afternoon 1957
• Funny Face 1957
• Silk Stockings 1957
• Gigi 1958
• À bout de souffle 1960
• Charade 1963
• Paris When It Sizzles 1964
• How To Steal A Million 1966
• Belle de jour 1967
• Dangerous Liaisons 1988
• Nikita 1990
• French Kiss 1995
• Everyone Says I Love You 1996
• Moulin Rouge! 2001
• Le Fabuleux destin...

• I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so that you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. And sometimes things fall apart so even better things can fall together. ~ Marilyn Monroe
• All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success ...

• rock out in the car.
• buy me drinks (Bushmill's with ginger ale, please)
• sing out loud in the subway when they're wearing headphones.
• get that I'm joking.
• laugh so hard they can't even continue the conversation.
• go out of their way to do something nice for someone else.
• laugh so hard at their own jokes they can't get to the punchline.
• share new music with me.
• compliment me out of the blue.
• get together to d...

1. 1976 - The most important year of my life, being that in which I was born.
2. 1981 - I met Michael M., who I loved desperately and hopelessly all through Kindergarten. He was the first in a series of requited loves.
3. 1982 - I fought with Cory A., my first day at a new school. I had no idea at the time that she was the queen bee of my tiny class. I was a social pariah for the next six years.
4. 1994 - I grad...

1. Clothes. It's unoriginal and financially draining. Dresses, sweaters, coats, costumes, gloves, socks - if I can stick in on my body, I want dozens of it.
2. Dessert. It doesn't matter what the meal was, or how full I am, I always want something sweet after. This may be why I'm always ten pounds heavier than I'd like to be.
3. Kisses. I love me some kissing. I'm pretty choosy when it comes to sex, but I'll...

• Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker
• The Princess Bride - William Goldman
• The Bombshell Manual of Style - Lauren Stover
• Sandman - Neil Gaiman
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Shopgirl - Steve Martin
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• The Crow - J.O'Barr
• The English Patient - Michael Odaatje
• In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
• Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
• Complete Works - Enda St. Vinc...

1. Baptiste Debureau - Jean-Louis Barrault in Les Enfants du Paradis
2. Peter Warne - Clark Gable's character in It Happened One Night
3. Howard Roark - Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead
4. Ned the Piemaker - Lee Pace's character on Pushing Daisies
5. Rhett Butler - Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind
6. The Ninth Doctor - Christopher Eccleston's character in Doctor Who
7. Inigo Montoya - William Goldman's The Princess Bride
8. Mr...

• I cannot be touched by bare feet. At all. Ever. Not in bed, not at the beach. Feet covered with socks are tolerable, as long as the socks are freshly washed.
• I organize everything. I'd even organize my ex- boyfriend's things. He'd come home with a new movie or book or album, I'd hover nearby, breathlessly waiting for him to walk out of the room so I could file it away. Alphabetically and according ...

• Kelly Clarkson
• 100 Grand chocolate bars
• Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries
• Picking scabs
• Made for TV movies
• Movie popcorn with extra butter
• The Flava of Love
• Dolly Parton
• InStyle magazine
• The Flava of Love Girl's Charm School
• Bruce Willis
• Del Taco's Deluxe Chili Cheese Fries

• Baz Luhrmanns' La Boheme
• Disney's Beauty and the Beast
• ALW's Phantom of the Opera
• The other version of Phantom of the Opera
• Peter Pan
• Children of a Lesser God
• Les Miserables
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Lend me a Tenor
• Camelot
• Kiki and Herb
• Sweeney Todd

1. Black cherry ice cream
2. Nutella on toast
3. Whipped cream on waffles
4. Cajeta on a spoon
5. Strawberries
6. Crunch ice cream bars
7. stawberry flavor bubble gum
8. Jolly ranchers
9. Chocolate covered strawberries
10. Nestle Dibs ice cream nuggets
11. Lindt chocolate
12. Sour patch kids
13. Root beer floats

• Pushing Daisies
• I Love Lucy
• The Carol Burnett Show
• Battlestar Galactica
• Alias... Erm. The first two seasons.
• Being Erica
• Dawson's Creek... Likewise, the first two seasons.
• Wonderfalls
• Small Wonder
• Firefly
• The Twilight Zone
• Lost
• Wonder Woman
• Doctor Who
• My So-Called Life
• Cowboy Bebop
• McGyver
• Xena, Warrior Princess
• The A-Team
• Dallas
• Scrubs
• Sunset Beach
• Alf
• Batman
• The Ellen Show
• Sex and the City
• 21 Jump Street