Sports; reading; drinking coffee black as midnight on a moonless night; eating anything that includes starch, cheese, and marinara sauce; dancing obnoxiously to soul music; checking what's on demand; watching Bill Maher and the Cosby Show
Stevie Wonder, Jerome Bettis, David Sedaris, Jon Stewart, people who do not stop in the middle of sidewalks nor walk in horizontal groups of seven on sidewalks, people with fabulous vocabulary and punctuation skills, people who turn their cell phones off during the day, and liberals.
Prince, Michael Jackson, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Keith Jarrett, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Christian McBride, Chris Potter, P Funk, Amel Larieux, The Roots, The Grass Roots, Monk, Bjork, Dexter Gordon, Paul Simon, Sco, Beach Boys, Otis Redding, Beck, Brad Mehldau, Cat Stevens, Omega Love & The Alex Skolnick Trio (much love to all my musician friends whose beautiful music spawns beautiful friendships).
I Heart Huckabees, Boogie Nights, Kung Fu Hustle, Enter the Dragon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss Sunshine, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Big Lebowski, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Fire Walk with Me, The Graduate...at one point anything that Adam or Jill recommended, but then they told me to get baked and see Blades of Glory. Now I don't trust them as I have become permanently dumb and there are a couple hours of my life that will never be retrieved and I will live the rest of my life in utter embarrassment for exposing myself to said movie.
Twin Peaks (slight obsession), ER (yes, it still airs), The Cosby Show (the kids get to go to Stevie's studio, Lemont the fish's funeral, Vanessa gets drunk are some of the gems from a show whose every episode I've seen), Bill Maher (it's sad when it's his off-season), The Daily Show (Jill shares his birthday, by the way), Sportscenter (February 6 2006 was my favorite episode), O'Grady (the weirdness), Six Feet Under, Freaks and Geeks, Big Love, lately Flight of the Conchords.
Me Talk Pretty One Day, Everything is Illuminated, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A People's History, Dry, Eleanor Rigby, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, the Namesake and other books by the same authors.