fake blood, coffee with honey, Northern soul, mariachi bands, popsicles for dinner, knee socks, cock rock, pillow talk, trainwrecks, tornado warnings, Stockholm Syndrome, Queensberry rules, social lubricants, vision quests, Alexander Hamilton, muscle cars, nouns as verbs, slumming, Shark Week, Ragnarok, pewter wizards and dragons, other people's brothers
I'd like to meet:
Mike Nesmith. Charles Grodin. Dean Wareham. Dudes in old Misfits shirts. Shub-Niggurath. Hypnotoad.
Music:
Pavement, Pixies, Led Zeppelin, Drive By Truckers, Pogues, Johnny Cash, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Lifter Puller, The Hold Steady, Rolling Stones, The Band, GBV, Pulp, Smoking Popes, Possum Dixon, Yo La Tengo, Mason Jennings, Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams, Barcelona, Beulah, Clem Snide, Mazarin, Flaming Lips, Andrew Bird, Bowie, Talking Heads, Bishop Allen, Sam Cooke, George Michael, Special Purpose, Du Jour
Movies:
Shaun of the Dead, Rushmore, Secretary, Coal Miner's Daughter, Urban Cowboy, The Jerk, Willow, Ghostbusters, Harold and Maude, Mitchell, The Addams Family
Television:
30 Rock, Extras, The Office, The Mighty Boosh. RIP: Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, MST3K, Futurama, Sifl and Olly.
Books:
Lincoln by Gore Vidal, Pastoralia by George Saunders, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, everything Edward Gorey
Heroes:
Tina Fey, Kim Deal, Evel Knievel, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Brown