family, friends, writing a book, reading books, watching Jean-Claude Van Damme films , beautiful sentences, new music, generic Dr. Pepper, taking naps, eating bloody slabs of steak, painting, Hip-Hop, Rap, Wikipedia, Fiction, puns, bogarting The Glenlivet, ridding the earth of total shit one jam band at a time, history, facts, getting reparations for all the money I've been screwed out of w/r/t my being the co-inventor or Frisbee Golf, trying to work out some sort of concentration camp for Wiccans in my backyard, etc etc.
Dislikes
watching and/or hearing Jim Breuer, wearing wet socks, having the squirts, etc
People who kick down doors and sometimes yell.
These links should work, enjoy. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble , Ted Leo/RX , Clipse , Andrew Bird , MF Doom , Spoon , Lupe Fiasco , Timberlake , MF Doom , The Blood Brothers , Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground , Nora O'Conner , Konono N°1 , John Legend , Danielson , Tom Waits , Dragonforce , The House Harkonnen , Callupsie , GHOSTS , Elliott the Letter Ostrich , Peanut Butter Wolf (and everything else on Stones Throw Records ), etc etc.
anything by Sergio Leone, Riki Oh: Story of Ricky , Mean Streets, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Alphaville, Oldboy, Jean-Claude Van Damme films , Wes Anderson movies, Christopher Guest movies, Jim Jarmusch films, Jurassic Park 1 and 3, Me And You And Everyone We Know, the first thiry minutes of most Troma movies , ninja films, City of God, Amores Perros, Tarantino, the serious Corbucci stuff, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Sunset Boulevard, Peckinpah, things that showcase the human miracle that is Tony Jaa, The Great Escape, Rio Bravo, One-Eyed Jacks, etc etc
Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Little Britain, Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! , MXC, 30 Rock, Taxi, Kung Fu, Stella, The Michael Showalter Showalter , Sanford and Son, nothing Joss Whedon has ever done, Clark and Michael , The State, etc.
Giles Goat-Boy, Ficciones, Cosmicomics, Blood Meridian, A Confederacy of Dunces, Suttree, Infinite Jest, The Thought Gang, The Savage Detectives, Invisible Man, Underworld, Ice at the Bottom of the World, House of Leaves, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Pricksongs and Descants, Mason and Dixon, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, The Cloud Atlas, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Raise High The Roof Beam Carpenters, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, etc etc
Authors
Italo Calvino, J.L Borges, DFW, Cormac McCarthy, Roberto Bolano, Gilbert Sorrentino, Don Delillo, John Kennedy Toole, Donald Bartheleme, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Pynchon, Leo Rosten, Daniel Handler, George Saunders, J.D Salinger, Chris Adrian, Dave Eggers, Mark Z. Danielewski, John Barth, Robert Coover, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Susanna Clarke, Amy Hempel, Frank Miller, Allan Gurganus, Jonathan Lethem, Ken Kalfus, Norman Mailer, Denis Johnson, Alan Moore, Ben Marcus, Phillip Roth, Primo Levi, William H. Gass, Tibor Fischer, Paul Auster, Ralph Ellison, some Pynchon, some Mailer, etc etc.
Currently Reading, 9/11//07
Blindness by Jose Saramago, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers edited by Vendela Vida, Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, To Ruhleben - and Back. by Geoffrey Pyke, The Rings of Saturn by W.G Seabald and I have audio versions of The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, some assorted H.P Lovecraft stories, and Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything on my ipod to pass the time whilst mailmanning.
Funes the Memorious