loud music, late nights, dancing, before and after wd40 sounds, 50 cent words, dictionaries, rare bookstores, loose change, scrabble, scotch and red wine, good beer, random explosions, social change, writing, photography, film, art, design, architecture, graffiti art (banksy), traveling to exotic locales, food, vanilla and lavender and rose, the water, beaches, the number 11, pulling weeds, greeting cards, philosophy, intelligence and humor, nme, nylon, adbusters, npr, banjo, scuba diving, ashtanga, poetry, literature, languages, culture, indians and chiefs, maps, meeting people, conversation.
riotously funny individuals, movers and shakers, palindromically named ones, a certain wind-up bird, the man behind the curtain, and someone who sees something different. oh yeah, and anyone who's seen the sealab2021 episode called tinfin.
13&god, 31 knots, a five and dime ship, a hawk and a hacksaw, a tribe called quest, air, akron/family, the album leaf, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead, andrew bird, angelo badalamenti, animal collective, antony and the johnsons, antonio carlos jobim, aqueduct, arab strap, arcade fire, architecture in helsinki, astronautalis, aterciopelados, at the drive-in, band of horses, bear claw, bear vs shark, beastie boys, bebel gilberto, beck, beep beep, beirut, belle and sebastian, bello raggazo, ben folds, ben kweller, bill ricchini, bjork, black mountain, blacktop cadence, bloc party, blood brothers, bob dylan, bonnie prince billy, the books, the boy least likely to, bright eyes, broadcast, broken social scene, brothers and sisters, built to spill, caetano veloso, casiotone for the painfully alone, the casket lottery, cat power, charles mingus, chin up chin up, the cinematic orchestra, the city on film, clap! clap!, clem snide, cocorosie, criteria, CSS, the cure, cursive, damien rice, daniel johnston, danielson family, daylight's for the birds, deadboy and the elephantmen, death vessel, the decemberists, de facto, de nova dahl, death cab for cutie, death from above 1979, deerhoof, deerhunter, devendra banhart, digable planets, django reinhardt, do make say think, doug martsch, eastern youth, eef barzelay, edith piaf, the elected, ella fitzgerald, elliot smith, the end of the world, erik satie, espers, fall of troy, feist, final fantasy, the flaming lips, four tet, friends for heroes, from monuments to masses, fugazi, georgie james, the get up kids, ghosts & vodka, gotan project, grandaddy, great lake swimmers, guided by voices, half-handed cloud, haunting oboe music, hayden, head of femur, horse the band, hot water music, i love you but i've chosen darkness, icy demons, interpol, iron and wine, jazzanova, jeff buckley, jennifer o'conner, jenny lewis, jens lekman, jim o'rourke, joanna newsom, john vanderslice, johnny cash, jose gonzales, josh ottum, josh rouse, julie doiron, kaki king, kings of convenience, the laughing, leonard cohen, los super elegantes, loxsly, luke temple, lymbyc systym, m. ward, the magnetic fields, make believe, man man, manu chao, massive attack, maria taylor, mark farina, mark kozelek, the mars volta, mates of state, matmos, matt pond pa, menomena, mewithoutyou, micah p. hinson, mice parade, midlake, michael nyman, the minus 5, minus the bear, modest mouse, mogwai, mojave 3, mos def, the most serene republic, the mountain goats, murder by death, the national, neutral milk hotel, neva dinova, nicolai dunger, nina simone, no knife, norfolk and western, the notwist, the octupus project, of montreal, okkervil river, the one am radio, orenda fink, owen, p:ano, patrick wolf, pattern is movement, peter bjorn and john, peter and the wolf, picastro, pinback, pit er pat, pixies, the postal service, portishhead, pretty girls make graves, propaghandi, q and not u, radiohead, richard swift, ris paul ric, rjd2, rocky votolato, the roots, rogue wave, roy orbison, rufus wainwright, ryan adams, sam prekop, the sea and cake, the shins, small brown bike, sonic youth, soundteam, south san gabriel, sparklehorse, the spinto band, spoon, stan getz, stephen merritt, stereolab, subtle, sufjan stevens, sun kil moon, sunny day real estate, supersystem, tacks, the boy disaster, tapes n' tapes, ted leo and the pharmacists, thao nguyen, the theatre fire, thelonious monk, they might be giants, tilly and the wall, tim fite, tom waits, tortoise, townes van zandt, tristeza, tv on the radio, two gallants, ugly cassanova, volcano, i'm still excited!, viva voce, voxtrot, we are scientists, ween, why?, wilco, willy mason, wolf mother, wolf parade, xiu xiu.
french and spanish films, japanese and indian films, contemporary pornography, troma, takashi miike, park chan wook, wong kar-wai, alejandro gonzalez inarritu, almodovar, federico fellini, alejandro jodorowsky, stanley kubrick, orson welles, john waters, jim jarmusch, steve buscemi, traffaut, bunuel, jean-luc godard, david lynch, darren aronofsky, wes andersen, christopher guest, james bond, old films and anything that involves a corset, some horses, and a pair of very tight breeches.
little britain, twin peaks, quantum leap, it's always sunny in philadelphia, degrassi, seinfeld, the colbert report, anderson cooper, larry king, 60 minutes, six feet under, adult swim, the soup, extras, the office, heroes, ugly betty, and of course, my favorite: arrested development.
i'm a junkie for the printed word: a confederacy of dunces, the fountainhead, the prophet, philosophical texts, house of leaves, borges, arthur rimbaud, vonnegut, david sedaris, monica drake, ee cummings, joseph heller, bret easton ellis, william faulkner, anais nin, erotica, jane austen, nobokov, salinger, chuck palahniuk, carlos castaneda, truman capote, hemingway, steinbeck, ginsberg, milan kundera, ts eliot, jrr tolkien, hunter s. thompson, dostoevsky, irvine welsh, albert camus, pablo neruda, neitzche, haruki murakami, ryu murakami, banana yoshimoto, thomas hardy, gabriel garcia marquez, coelho, bukowski, kira salak, anything biographical that tells of weird habits, cheesed out harlequin romances.
howard roark and bubba.