Photography, the Cinema, new music, tea, sake, sushi, candles, cats, record collecting, Poker, Haikus, cold weather and hot showers, cilantro, WWII History, writing short stories and poetry, pumpkin carving, walking in the rain, wasabi, animation, Checking off the "hundred things to do before I die" list, Backgammon, cooking, Alice in Wonderland, rumaging through antique and used book stores, kitsch, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, pin up art (i.e. Betty Page and Vargas girls), old school game systems like Atari and NES, trying new and unusual foods, my subconcious, good animé, P-51 D Mustangs, HP Lovecraft
I'd like to meet:
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Music:
The Yeah-Yeah-Yeahs, Modest Mouse, The Beta Band, Flaming Lips, Goldfrapp, Polyphonic Spree, Air, Pink Floyd, Frou Frou, Stereolab, Dandy Warhols, Built To Spill, Elbow, Secret Machines, Joy Division, Gorillaz, Brian Eno, Bjork, Portishead, St. Germain, Faultline, Nine Inch Nails, Ugly Cassanova, Eels, Kruder Dorfmeister, Chemical Brothers, Sigur Rós, The Shins, The Negro Problem, Azure Ray, James, Stew, Super Furry Animals, Creeper Lagoon, Kasabian, Postal Service, Basement Jaxx, Bright Eyes, Scissor Sisters, Tegan and Sara, UNKLE, Spoon
Movies:
The Great Escape, Fight Club, Cinema Paradisio, Amelie, Buckaroo Banzai, Ed Wood, Classic Star Wars Trilogy, Evil Dead 2, Buffalo 66, Rushmore, Sex and Lucia,The Third Man, Lost in Translation, Punch Drunk Love, Royal Tennenbaums, Seven Samurai, Sideways, Titus, Sabrina, Waiting For Guffman, The Wall, 24hr Party People, The Thing, Ghost Dog, Dead Man, City of Lost Children, Donnie Darko, Akira, Magnolia, Delecatessen, Six String Samurai, The Mystery of Rampo, Unbreakable, Spinal Tap, Equilibrium, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Serenity, Ghost World, American Splendor, Dark City, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Bubba Ho-Tep, American Psycho
Television:
Firefly, Iron Chef, Battlestar Galactica, 24, Justice League Unlimited, MXC, Reno 911, Strangers With Candy, Lost, Project Greenlight, Good Eats, The State, Dinner For Five, MST3K, The Office, Invader Zim, The Prisoner, Sea Lab 2021, Entourage, Futurama, Farscape, The Tick, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Da Ali G Show, The Daily Show, Grey's Anatomy, Doctor Who, Scrubs
Books:
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, The Cerebus "Phone Books" by Dave Sim, and ANYTHING by Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Neil Gaiman, H.P. Lovecraft, Terry Pratchett
Heroes:
My grandparents first and foremost, H.H. the Dalai Lama, David Fincher, Bruce Campbell, Chuck Palauhniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, Masamune Shirow, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, Joss Whedon, The CBLDF protecting our first amendment rights, Akira Kurosawa, Zhang Yimou, Ben Franklin (he's turning in his grave at the sight of this country), Man Ray, Duane Michaels, Lee Miller, Joel-Peter Witkin, HP Lovecraft