Buffy The Vampire Slayer

SFBG: Are you more interested in underground or pop culture right now?

KG: [Laughs] There’s certainly a lot of TV shows that are good right now. Well, more HBO-type things, obviously. I still love Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I watch with my daughter who sort of got me into it. It’s very interesting. Very campy - some episodes are incredibly surreal. And yet it has this kind of realism about high school and how banal and boring it is. Gossip Girl is not as well-written. But it’s eye-candyish. There’s this new BBC show, Skins, that’s pretty good.

There’s nothing in mainstream pop music that inspires me. But my daughter likes all these bands – y’know it’s catchy like the Kooks, or MGMT. I’ll be like, “This sounds like Sparks.” And she’ll be, “Oh, no! I’ll never listen to them the same way again.” She knows her dad really likes Sparks. [Laughs] They’re not nearly as hysterical as Sparks, but they definitely have that imprint going on. There are people’s records that come out like Lucinda Williams’ - I really like her - but nothing else.

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