banality:

ten bands/artists you couldn't live without:
[01] Björk
[02] Pearl Jam
[03] Nirvana
[04] Ani Difranco
[05] Ben Folds
[06] The Smiths
[07] Radiohead
[08] Lou Reed
[09] Aretha Franklin
[10] Bela Fleck

nine albums that are important to you:
[1] Joni Mitchell - Blue
[2] Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
[3] Ben Folds - Live
[4] Roses - December 2002 (mixCD)
[5] Jhary - Slightly Askew (mixCD)
[6] Poppy - blue-baebe (mixtape)
[7] The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
[8] Adam - Only Children (mixtape)
[9] Counting Crows - Live Across a Wire

eight movies you'd watch over and over:
[1] Secretary
[2] Dreams (Kurosawa)
[3] Sense and Sensibility
[4] Imposters
[5] Some Like it Hot
[6] High Art
[7] Illuminata
[8] O Brother Where Art Thou

seven things that annoy you:
[1] sharing a room
[2] dial-up
[3] "feminist" said with a sneer
[4] police actions
[5] the Likud party
[6] the inability to focus on more than one person at a time
[7] hot weather

six of your favorite songs*:
[1] Ben Folds Five - Hey Summer
[2] Ani Difranco - Slide
[3] Joni Mitchell - California
[4] Counting Crows - Chelsea
[5] Cassandra Wilson - Last Train to Clarksville
[6] Dave Brubeck - Audrey
*(as of right this very moment)

five tv shows you watch regularly:
[1] early episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (taped)
[2] the occasional Simpsons episode
[3] the even less frequent Six Feet Under episode
[4] -
[5] ...(I don't have a tv)

four of your all-time-favorite books:
[1] W. Faulkner - The Sound & the Fury
[2] A. Roy - The God of Small Things
[3] N. Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth
[4] A. Rand - Atlas Shrugged
(am currently reading D. Delillo's Cosmopolis and it is lovely lovely lovely.)

three albums you've bought recently:
[1] Ani Difranco - Evolve
[2] Chuck Mangione for $.25 on vinyl
[3] er.. bought? gracias a P2P piracy.

two musicians/actors you would like to have wrapped up & sent home as present to self:
[1] James Spader (for Zillah. or ought it be Julian Sands?)
[2] Ally Sheedy

one band whose music would be described as writing the soundtrack of your life:
[1] I hate this question. (Radiohead)