Accents, Bowling, Chocolate-chip cookies, Doodling, Engrish, Flying kites, Garage sales, Harry potter, Indie rock, Japanese sundries, Knitting, Laughing, Music, Npr, Orange (color), Photography, Quiet afternoons, Reading, Slang, Turing machines, Unfortunate events, Visiting New Countries, Wasting time, Xeroxed copies, Yapping, and Zzzzz's
carl castle
i hearts the dears.blur, tacks the boy disaster, the arcade fire, pulp, ian brown, m83, interpol, the magnetic fields, pamuz, the monkees, that one bobby darin song (beyond the sea), the walkmen, stone roses, unkle, yann tiersen, broken social scene, manitoba, godspeed...mt zion, the decemberists, belle & sebastian, johann johannsson, mellowdrone, lali puna, beach boys, andrew bird, sigur ros, ape-rock!
the goonies, breakfast at tiffany's, nausicaa, amelie, lost in translation, last year at marienbad, run lola run, rushmore, chungking express, donnie darko, umbrellas of cherbourg, being john malkovich, in the mood for love, best in show, shaolin soccer, harry potter 3 & 4 (but not 1 or 2), eternal sunshine
arrested development, the office, weeds, dexter, 24, curb your enthusiasm, pete & pete, the state, lost, top chef, this american life, ugly betty, project runway, alton brown, law & order, the monkees, fillmore!, daily show, wonderfalls, animal cops, stella and recently, thanks to niki, i am secretly addicted to top model.
microserfs, i'm just here for the food, harry potter, confederacy of dunces, series of unfortunate events, life in silico, readymade magazine, coupland, capote, sedaris, self, eggers, exit strategy, cookbooks, mcsweenys, and grimble by clement freud (you must read it)
Anton Corbijn, Ira Glass, Alton Brown, Ian Brown and Bob Edwards.