Brian Dillard

Michigan State

software engineer, entertainment writer, dork

Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Battle Creek, Howland House

obsessively tagging MP3s, doing incline leg presses, rearranging my furniture, helping the helpless

Eightball by Daniel Clowes, My Way of Life by Joan Crawford, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Vacuum Flowers and The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick, Queer and Junky by William Burroughs, The Freddy Stories by Lynda Barry, Cages by Dave McKean, The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod, Black Hole by Charles Burns, Shade the Changing Man by Peter Milligan, Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, The Glamour by Christopher Priest, Yummy Fur by Chester Brown, The Passion Flower Hotel by Rosalind Erskine, The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, Elementals by Bill Willingham, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert Heinlein, Bratpack by Rick Veitch, Barrel Fever by David Sedaris, Breakfast After Noon by Andi Watson

9 to 5, Parting Glances, Nights of Caberia, Delta, Alien, Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby, Olivier Olivier, Election, Hanging Garden, Absolute Giganten, Dark Passage, Japanese Story, Nekromantik, A Star Is Born [Judy, duh!], Pitch Black, Key Largo, My Beautiful Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic, Meet Me in St. Louis, Grifters, Igby Goes Down, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome [for Tina's chain mail], Without You I'm Nothing, Withnail and I, Wonderland [Winterbottom], My Bloody Valentine, Truth About Alex, Brain That Wouldn't Die, Island of Terror, Clockstoppers, Children of the Corn, Tadpole, Trilogy of Terror, Gummo, All About My Mother, George Romero's original Dead trilogy, Irreversible, Last Exit to Brooklyn, High Art, Jack Be Nimble, Show Me Love, Lost Boys, Misadventures of Margaret, Kate's Secret, Nowhere, Our Lady of the Assassins, Mademoiselle, Dead Ringers, Star Maps, Strapless, Swimming Pool, Taxi Zum Klo, Cabaret, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, To Die For, You Can Count on Me

Kate Bush, Saint Etienne, Detroit techno, The Knife, The Rapture, Junior Boys, Grace Jones, Hot Chip, Aaliyah, Nellie McKay, DFA, Nina Simone, Scissor Sisters, Lush, Sing-Sing, Carl Craig, Sandra Bernhard, Underground Resistance, Pet Shop Boys, Annie, Swan Lake, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey, L'Trimm, Felix Da Housecat and Aphrohead, Liz Phair, JJ Fad, Aimee Mann, Salt-N-Pepa, Basic Channel, Maurizio, Bjork, ESG, The Cars, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Richie Hawtin, Belle and Sebastian, Barry Manilow, The Raincoats, Joe Jackson, Barbara Morganstern, Photek, Dolly Parton, Jill Sobule, Le Tigre, Richard D. James, Prince, DJ Hell, Interpol, The Aloof, Underworld, Andrew Weatherall, Speedy J, Bobby O, Gina X Performance, Linda Lamb, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Once More with Feeling, Avenue Q, Hair, Cabaret, Alice Coltrane, Plaid, To Rococo Rot, The Juan Maclean, LCD Soundsystem, Birdie

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Nighty Night, Veronica Mars, This Life, Weeds, Entourage, Flavor of Love, Freaks and Geeks, Wonderfalls, Six Feet Under, Gilmore Girls, Nip/Tuck, Alias [except season 3], X-Files [till about season 6 or 7], Popular, What Not to Wear [UK version, obviously], Twin Peaks, Strangers With Candy, Goodness Gracious Me, Coupling, Kumars at No. 42, Daria, AbFab, French & Saunders, Sopranos, Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Amazing Race, Kids in the Hall, The Office, Deadwood, Wonder Woman, Super Friends, Roseanne, One Tree Hill, Extreme Makeover, Jerry Springer, King of the Hill, Lost

Capricorn

Sarah Cracknell, cute boys, vampire champions, Kashka from Baghdad, Michael K from D-Listed, and Andrew Lincoln