MEDIA HORDE

“My son just arrived eight weeks ago, and I can’t do anything but wait around, so I watched the first two seasons of Flight of the Conchords. The humor is so stupid, I can laugh for hours. It just proves that you don’t need much to make good television. I hope one day they need a Mexican on their show!”

“I wouldn’t say The
Big Lebowski is the
Coen brothers’ best
film, but it’s the
film that makes me
feel the best. It has
everything—it’s funny,
it’s smart, it looks
beautiful. It can cheer
me up on any occa-
sion. I used to watch
it to forget about
being dumped, which
happened a lot in my
20s. Now that I have
a family, which I hope
lasts for a long time,
maybe I won’t have to
watch it as much.”

“I would pretty much
like to forget the
music that happened
to me between the
ages of eight and 11,
so I’m going to say the
first album I bought
was the special edition
of Dark Side of the
Moon. My dad was a
theater designer, and
I spent a lot of time
hanging around the
dressing room listen-
ing to whatever the
actors were listening
to, which is where
I heard Pink Floyd
for the first time.
The packaging for
this edition is really
cool—it’s all black.
My friends and I
ended up playing this
album for hours, try-
ing to learn the lyrics.”

Diego Luna

“Blindness [by José
Saramago] is a book
that is so right on
about how we’re liv-
ing today. The world
is becoming a very
unlivable place, and
instead of being curi-
ous or afraid, we’re
learning how not to
be affected by it. It’s
like being dead.”

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“Now that I live in L.A., I am dealing with the shock of having everyone call ‘football’ what isn’t football! I support the Barcelona team.

They have a Mexican
player named Rafael

Márquez, whom I love. It’s sad, because I can never find the games on television. I can only find these shows like Dancing for the Dreams of Your Best Friend.”

“The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard

Led Zeppelin. They
have the same kind of
power. I don’t think
Zeppelin has ever
made a bad album,
and I don’t know if
the same is true of the
Mars Volta, but they’re
both on my iPod.”

“ The Bicycle Thief is
like a laxative. When
you feel like shit, you
gotta get it out. So if I
ever think no one has
a worse life than mine,
I watch this kid and
start to cry—for him,
at least, and not for
myself anymore.”