rock tours. coffee. weekends. making delicious foods. consumer behavior. wine/beer. instant gratification. the economy. joe's jeans. mi-chan.
tim gunn
wilco, beulah, hayden, flaming lips, the kinks, hum, death cab, northern hues, the beatles, king of prussia, frank sinatra, neutral milk hotel, tom waits, elliot smith, john darnielle, guided by voices, neil young, pavement, bjork, simon and garfunkel, yo la tengo, matt pond, built to spill...there's a lot more.
wes anderson, buffalo 66, lost in translation, trouble every day, high fidelity, goodfellas, the big lebowski, reservoir dogs, election, lots of pretentious foreign films and documentaries
THE WIRE, simpsons, arrested development, home movies, newsradio, six feet under, mystery science theater, mr. show, curb your enthusiasm, my so-called life, sopranos, seinfeld, battle star galactica!! futurama, a couple bullshit reality shows like project runway and america's next top model
the ny times magazine, don delillo, bukowski, nabakov, vonnegut, flannery o'connor, murakami, salinger, books about other books, anything about pop culture and society, short story anthologies, lots of books about food and food politics