Adventures, comic books, rock n roll, guitars, poetry, fine cinematic masterpieces, awful cinematic trash, theater, vintage video games, Ireland, Irish literature, beaches and oceans, playgrounds and swingsets, bridges, breezes in the wind, night time, positivity, saving the world, religion, divinity inherent in mankind, good beer, and only good beer, gin and tonics, and not wine (unless boxed and slapped), art, the artist, and the artistic process, ultimate frisbee, biking, hating Nazis, high fives and stage dives, the air in the early morning (although I'm rarely awake to experience it), a well-made bed (although I never make mine), subcultures, countercultures, and not being involved in them, being alive, comic books, chivalry, absurdism, surrealism, existentialism, magical realism, post-nowism, prisms, pretentious -isms, clever wordplay, being generally offensive and not really meaning it, saying what I mean, meaning what I say, being intentionally vague, paradoxes, being awesome, fiction suits, leisure suits, pinstripe suits, not wearing pants, Glossolalia, synthesizers, guitars, rock n roll, and saving the world.
You again. And only you, ever again.
Always: Weezer, Ted Leo, Wilco, Velvet Underground, Belle and Sebastian, Mates of State, The Beatles, Radiohead, Jason Robert Brown, Built To Spill, Ben Folds, Beck, OK Go, The Ramones, They Might Be Giants, The Zombies, Motion City Soundtrack, The Arcade Fire, Van Halen, The Kinks, Comeback Kid, Reel Big Fish, The Queers, Beach Boys, Fall Out Boy, Dismemberment Plan, At The Drive-In, The Cars, Midtown, Brand New, 2 Skinnee J's, Fiona Apple, Coheed and Cambria, Spring Heeled Jack, The Monkees, 7 Seconds, The Hippos, John Coltrane, The Impossibles, Foo Fighters, The Plus Ones, Kanye West, Queen, The Living End, Jimmy Eat World, The Pixies, Beulah, Elvis Costello, Cursive, Mr. T Experience, Ella Fitzgerald, Bloc Party, The Descendents, Operation Ivy, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Cheap Trick, Piebald, Mars Volta, Northstar, Outkast, Say Anything, Alkaline Trio, Mighty Purple, Fugazi, The Rolling Stones, Ben Kweller, Less Than Jake, Minor Threat, Talib Kweli, Rancid, Kevin Devine, Django Reinhardt, Hot Rod Circuit, Elliott Smith, George and Ira Gershwin, The Doors, Polaris, Andrew WK, The Cure, Sufjan Stevens, Saves The Day, Black Eyed Peas, The Rentals, Head Automatica, Frank Sinatra, The Clash, Neutral Milk Hotel
Army of Darkness. Kill Bill. Annie Hall. Fight Club. Chasing Amy. Clerks. Blazing Saddles. Pulp Fiction. Eternal Sunshine. Bill and Ted. I heart Huckabees. Comic Book Movies.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Pete and Pete, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Tick, Clone High, Heroes, The Prisoner, and the X-Files.
Comic Pull List: Y the Last Man; Astonishing/Uncanny/Adjectiveless X-Men; Amazing/Sensational Spider-Man; 52; Cable & Deadpool; Wolverine; X-Factor; The New Avengers; Fell; Buffy Season 8; Immortal Iron Fist; Captain America; Young Avengers; Batman; GI Joe America's Elite; generally anything that Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, or Joss Whedon touches, although Brubaker and Carey have got me roped in as of late. Other graphic novels: Watchmen; V for Vendetta; Transmetropolitan; The Invisibles; The Sentry Literarily speaking: The Game; Dune; The Art of War; Fight Club; Tao Te Ching; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Catcher in the Rye; Endgame; Death of a Salesman; Angels in America; plays and poetry moreso than novels (my passion for writing is clearly over powered by my inability to handle too many words on a page at a time), especially Tom Stoppard, James Joyce, Sam Beckett, Phillip Dick, and Shakespeare. Basically, not Charles Dickens, by any means.
Spider-Man and Stephen Dedalus. I'm not even kidding.