I like a lot of dumb stuff that cool people don't find interesting: film ontologycore, narrative theorycore, Constructivist architecturecore (and methodologycore), urban interventioncore, confrontationcore, the metaphysics of artcore, cognitive theorycore, intertextualitycore, conceptcore, badcore, mannercore, doing projectscore. STRUCTURECORE, ABSURDITYCORE
Self-proclaimed "-ists" of things that don't really have "ologies"; blowhards; agitationalists; people unencumbered by taste; the knife-wielding. Also:
Dan Duran.
KITTENS, Curl up and Die, Big Bear, The Kill Decibel, Cursed, Blood Ceremony, Yah Mos Def, Daughters, An Albatross, Napalm Death, The Monorchid, Electro Quarterstaff, The Red Light Sting, Femme Fatale, 3 Inches of Blood, Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, Anagram, DD/MM/YYYY, Arab on Radar, The American Flag, Bush League, We're Marching On, Bahai Cassette, Oh The Humanity, Dollarama, Bolt Thrower, The Blood Brothers, Bratmobile, Cancer Bats, Can-i-bus, combatwoundedveteran, DJ Cyber-Rap, Iron Bitchface, The Locust, North of America, S.O.D., Pig Destroyer, Head Wound City, so basically: SCREAMY SCREAMY SCREAMY.
Andrei Rublev, Stalker, Last Year at Marienbad, The Spanish Prisoner, Spirited Away, A Certain Kind of Death, High Noon, Dead Ringers, Suture, Mildred Pierce, Gilda, Eyes Without a Face, Halloween, Mulholland Drive, Bullitt, The French Connection, The Big Heat, Laura, Solaris (Tarkovsky), Lawrence of Arabia, Evil Dead 2.
CORONATION STREET
House of Leaves, The Third Policeman, Bleak House, Goodbye to Berlin, The Alienist, The World Viewed (well, pretty much anything by Stanley Cavell), John Raulston Saul, James Ellroy, Linda McQuaig, Edward Branigan
People who fight things with swords.