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favorite magazines & newspapers

L.A. Times
Wall Street Journal
PC Magazine
Wired
Entertainment Weekly
Rolling Stone
Spin
Dwell
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R.I.P. - Yahoo Internet Life

favorite websites

Slate is an interesting mix of commentary, opinion, essays, and other fun little bits.

Yahoo Picks is a fun source of off-the-wall websites.

All Music and IMDB are my go-to sources for comprehensive info on music and movies.

Netflix All the DVDs I could ever watch: $17.99 a month. Never having to set foot in Blockbuster again: Priceless.

Half is the biggest used CD and DVD store in the world. And they won't laugh at you when you want to sell your complete collection of Air Supply. eBay and Amazon are for just about anything else you'd ever want to buy. Except milk. Would someone please bring back Webvan?

CNET, Slashdot, and Engadget are my favorite spots for gizmo and computer news.

Pure Volume and Download Punk are good sources for alt-rock recommendations and (DRM-free) downloads.

Wikipedia: 12% fewer errors than before.

5/11/2007

Ok I'm taking Slashdot off the list. I'm tired of computer geeks complaining about the same damn stuff over and over and over. And over. Gizmodo is much more fun.

And you knew it was going to happen sooner or later -- fake news outlet The Onion finally made it to TV News.

Miss an episode of your favorite TV show? Television Without Pity has painfully detailed, blow-by-blow episode summaries. They take longer to read than to watch the actual show. Good for obsessive types.

favorite movies

In no particular order...

Make mine non-linear, please
Run Lola Run, Pulp Fiction, Go!, The Limey

Would you like a twist with that?
Fight Club, Confidence, The Sixth Sense, Matchstick Men, The Player

Musicals I can tolerate
Moulin Rouge, Grease, Annie, Chicago, The Sound of Music

Guilty pleasures
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Can't Hardly Wait, Orange County, Clueless

Don't answer the phone
The Exorcist, Misery, Jaws, The Ring, Seven, Jacob's Ladder

Classics
Casablanca, The Narrow Margin (1952, not 1990), Some Like it Hot, Double Indemnity, Psycho, Rebel Without a Cause, To Kill a Mockingbird

Comedy
Airplane, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Raising Arizona, Bill Cosby: Himself, L.A. Story, Dr. Strangelove

For the inner child
Mary Poppins, Alice in Wonderland, Spirited Away, Toy Story, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Documentary
Gimme Shelter, Step into Liquid, Spellbound, Koyaanisquatsi, The Thin Blue Line

And the rest...
Lean on Me, Fargo, The Hunt for Red October, Eyes Wide Shut, Scarface, Blow, SLC Punk, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Shawshank Redemption, Priest, American Beauty, Whale Rider, To Die For, Erin Brockovich, Bend It Like Beckham, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, U-571, Contact, Magnolia, Cruel Intentions, The Opposite of Sex, Six Degrees of Separation, Election, Traffic, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, M*A*S*H, Star Trek...most of 'em

And finally, for the best Elvis Costello cameo ever...
200 Cigarettes