Latin monickers, witty mocking, oft mis-interpreted tattoos (Nick, Truck: props), dictionaries, old books, poetry, forests, storms, dreary days, musing, pondering, contemplating, imagining, absinthing, self reflection, ascension, the three c's, Mugshotz, Prometheus...
Not-stupid.
Ecclectic. That said, Alice in Chains, AntonÃn Dvorák, The B-52's, Beastie Boys, Björk, The Blood Brothers, Bob Dylan, Brobdingnagian Bards, Cake, The Charlie Daniels Band, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Chumbawumba, The Clash, Cream, David Newman, Dead Kennedys, The Decemberists, Depeche Mode, The Doors, Dropkick Murphys, The Enlish Beat, Fugazi, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gorillaz, Green Day, Greg Edmonson, Iggy Pop, Jainine Jansen, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Josh Loewenhagen, Kraftwerk, The Kronos Quartet, Led Zepplin, Less Than Jake, The Mad Maggies, The Mars Volta, Matisyahu, Mr. Bungle, Nirvana, No Doubt, Oomph!, Outcast, A Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, The Police, The Postal Service, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, Rasputina, Reel Big Fish, Regina Spektor, RJD2, Robert Johnson, RX Bandits, Saul Williams, The Scarring Party, The Sex Pistols, Sigur Rós, Smash Mouth, Sublime, System of a Down, They Might Be Giants, Tom Waits, Tool, Turnaround Captain, Van Morrison, VAST, Violent Femmes, Voltaire, The White Strips, The Who, Woodie Guthrie, Yann Tiersen, Yo-Yo Ma, and others. WMSE 91.7 is the most awesome radio station ever, followed closely by 90.7 and 89.7.
Serenity, Star Wars, Atonement, Amélie, Coffee and Cigarettes, Dead Poets Society, Garden State, The Life Aquatic, The Rules of Attraction, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Dazed and Confused, A Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II, Cool Hand Luke, Gigantic, 28 Days Later, High Fidelity, The Fifth Element, Harry Potter, Fight Club, The Matrix, The Rundown, Reign of Fire, and a metric fuckton more...
White Clown.Some shows have managed to actually be worth while: Firefly, Buffy, Angel, the Black Donnellys, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Supernatural, Red Dwarf, Pushing Daisies, Batman Beyond...it's kind of sad how many of those were canceled.
Matthew Stover, Ginsberg, Burroughs, William Gibson, Heinlein, Bradbury, Asimov, Zahn, Neal Stephenson, Voltaire, Baudrillard, Carrol, Camus, Burgess Dovstoyevsky, Margaget Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Ayn Rand (in certain ways, by no means wholly), and others.
It's occurred to me that my previous entry for heroes was a bit overbearing and self-righteous. Let's just amend it to Caine, Jubal Harshaw, Lazarus Long, Meursault, and Shadow. I'll give you a cookie if you can email me with the book that each one was from. Cookie only if you get them all. Matthew Sargeant is exempt from this offer.