things that are needlessly complicated, technology from the 1970s and 1980s, structural and poststructural linguistics, hard chilling, epic jams, feats of strength, playing instruments, fish, on-base percentage
the tea bag boyz.
grindcore, free jazz, hip hop, no wave, post-rock
city of god, pi, any movie set in late 1970's/early 1980's new york like death wish or the warriors, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, waking life, home alone
the o.c., pete and pete
joyce, nietzsche, kafka, camus, tolstoy, dostoevsky, fitzgerald, burroughs, whitman, kierkegaard, stevens, hesse, garcia marquez, anthologies of good poetry, anything related to literary critical theory
charles bronson , brian whitman