honesty. informed and passionate political discourse. the internal combustion engine. things that happened in baseball while i was a standoffish arty kid. vacations. fortune and glory.
Music:
yes. lots. look here .
Movies:
ghostbusters, clue, the great muppet caper, animal house, fletch, the blues brothers, caddyshack, airplane!, kentucky fried movie, it's a mad mad mad mad world, blazing saddles, young frankenstein, history of the world part i, david lynch's dune, wonder boys, igby goes down, galaxy quest, friday, stripes, wargames, tron, the james cameron drinking game, monty python, lost in translation, anchorman, the last starfighter, highlander, pulp fiction, kill bill, reservoir dogs, true romance, clerks, mallrats, jaws, almost famous, dawn of the dead, raiders of the lost ark, shaun of the dead, sneakers, the hudsucker proxy, once upon a time in america, die hard i-iii, the natural, real genius, strange brew, until the end of the world, rushmore, the royal tennenbaums, buckaroo banzai, the big lebowski, miller's crossing, barton fink, better off dead, how i got into college, one crazy summer, cannonball run (i+ii), smokey and the bandit, ski school, back to school, uhf, napoleon dynamite, star wars (iii-vi), star trek ii, iii, iv, & vi, police academy, joe vs the volcano, heathers, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, night on earth, the hunet for red october, dazed and confused, 20,000 leagues under the sea, the game, saving grace, casablanca, midnight madness, spaceballs, pee-wee's big adventure, office space, six string samurai, battle royale, the shootist, the endless summer, nat'l lampoon's european vacation, master and commander, saving private ryan, lock stock and two smoking barrels, snatch, edward scissorhands, club dread, super troopers, wet hot american summer, van wilder, thirteen days, blade runner, black hawk down, wedding crashers, ocean's 11&12, 28 days later, the magnificent seven, lucas, weird science, the impostors, big fish, finding neverland, rattle and hum
Television:
the only live television i ever really watch is boston red sox baseball. meanwhile i keep reconfiguring my dvr so thoroughly that the cable box crashes when it tries to reprogram my settings. on dvr: robot chicken, SNL, the daily show & sometimes colbert, cheers, south park, family guy, aqua teen hunger force, quantum leap, bbc whose line is it anyway, mythbusters, futurama, law & order, 'the alternative' on vh1 classic. on dvd: arrested development, lost, all in the family, 24 (with the as far as i'm concerned mandatory drinking game), twin peaks, the west wing, the muppet show, freaks & geeks, cheers again, laugh-in, ren & stimpy, firefly, the first three seasons of buffy. in addition to the above, wkrp, x-files, sctv, moonlighting, dangermouse, my so-called life, and the state.
Books:
david foster wallace(infinite jest!), j.d. salinger, douglas adams, roddy doyle, kavalier and clay, douglas coupland, william gibson, james joyce, richard russo, sarah vowell, studs terkel, nick hornby, philip k. dick, heinlein, cryptonomicon, good omens, suburbia, confederacy of dunces, clockwork orange, canticle for leibowitz, carter beats the devil, catch-22, dune, arthur ransome, freddy the pig, the fucking mug should say john bellairs, breakfast at tiffany's, stephen king (finished the dark tower, hoo-ah), potter, jonathan strange & mr. norell, f. scott fitzgerald, most things mcsweeney's, the fletch series, history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters, neil gaiman, jeph loeb, old tom clancy books, make magazine
