MUSIC, palta pickin', back country dirt roads, MUNKIN, watercolors, po' ums, ARCHITECTURE, philosophy, aesthetics and design in general, cycling, music, fashion, consequently shoes, quality drafting pens, and ummmm... cookies and puppies too, because puppies give kitties what for!, yeah.
flat-earthers. Ablutophobiacs. Munkins, Acheronians. my evil twin. Stephin Merritt. Glass blowers. Mohicans. Architects. Rich generous philanthropists. Anthopophobiacs. Arachibutyrophobiacs. wage slaves. Museum curators. Bohemians. North Dakotans. Chileans. Runners and walkers alike. Janitors, Girls without Philemaphobia. Tugboat captains. Travelers. Statics. Ghetto cowboys. Cyclists. Activists. Damas. Raelians. Flax Farmers. Winners. Losers.
Po' ums
Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips, Galaxie 500
The Magnetic Fields
Gothic Archies
Future Bible Heroes
The 6ths
...and anything by Stephin Merritt
Decemberists
Of Montreal
Belle & Sebastian
Camera Obscura
Ladybug Transistor
Danielson Famile
Arcade Fire
Polyphonic Spree
Tilly and the Wall
Action Action
Badly Drawn Boy
Mates of State
Rilo Kiley
The Concretes
The Microphones
Her Space Holiday
Stereolab
Notwist
Imperial Teen
Broken Social Scene
The Rosebuds
Joshua James
Wolf Parade
Hood
oh yeah and also...
Passage and Restiform Bodies
Why? & Hymie's Basement
Alias & Ehren, Alias & Tarsier
...and most Anticon
Really anything with a somber aura or a vivid melody, if that makes any sense.
Waking Life
Amelie
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Kill Bill
Fight Club
NO Thank You
Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Charles Dickens, Harold Pinter, Albert Camus, Johann von Goethe, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda, Dylan Thomas, Alex Haley, Plato, Ursula K. Le Guin, Shakespeare, Phillip Johnson, Mumia, Joseph Smith, Gordon B. Hinckley, James E. Talmage, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, E.B. White, Harper Lee, Bell Hooks, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Sophocles, Ralph Ellison, Harriet Beecher Stowe...and the countless unnamed.
Guevara, Shabazz, Neruda, Lorca, Chomsky, King, Marcos, Chavez, Frost, Hughes, Thomas, Keller, Whitman, Gandhi, Holiday, Coltrane, Dubois, Garvey, Teresa, Marley, Shakur, Newton, Thoreau, Shakespeare, Smith, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Locke, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Marx, Ghery, Johnson, Wright, Dali, Picasso, Manet, Monet, Mozart, Hawkins, Morrison, Dylan, Dickens, Jamal, Camus, Goethe, Goodman.