music, left politics, stand-up comedy, watching wrestling, hockey, cincinnati reds baseball, fantasy baseball, football (west ham united, columbus crew, juventus), high end german microphones and other taping/recording gear, sirius satellite radio, alcohol, oleo, veganism/cooking vegan food, and making fun of sam because he likes hot dogging.
mike watt (all bands/projects), public enemy, fugazi, krs one, billy bragg, bruce springsteen, fishbone, coltrane, r.e.m., the pop group, suicidal tendencies, sst records bands, zappa, beefheart, steve earle, replacements/paul westerberg, bob forrest, lucero, ted leo, cobra verde, nels cline (and other west coast jazz...i.e. scott amendola, devin sarno, g.e. stinson), bikini kill, sly stone, rush, mudhoney, zeppelin, cliff-era metallica, melt banana, detroit rock, ohio rock, dysrhythmia, deadsea, uncle tupelo, ween, pavement, weakerthans, high on fire, non phixion, the slackers, sabbath, born against, jawbreaker, bad brains, manu chao/mano negra, chumba, primus, common, los crudos, that dog, happy apple, wire, norah jones, zakir hussain, asian dub foundation, jane's addiction/porno for pyros/polar bear/deconstruction/etc, otis gibbs, the mekons, radiohead, morphine, lucinda williams, opeth, sting/police, shellac/rapeman/big black, propagandhi, jonathan richman, the smiths, j mascis, sonic youth, slobberbone, 24/7 spyz, tom waits, anything ND, NWOCHM, my friends' sweet bands, and a bunch of other stuff
monty python & the holy grail, the rutles, they live, floundering, pee wee's big adventure, uhf, one crazy summer, better luck tomorrow, rob schneider movies, shawshank redemption, pump up the volume, cabin boy, the big one, soy cuba, hype, plan 9 from outer space, dune, withnail & i, stargate, lagaan, punchdrunk love, anything from terry gilliam, anything by mel brooks, anything from steve martin, and a bunch of other stuff
monk, father ted, sliders, platypus man, freaks & geeks, short attention span theater, seinfeld, the daily show, x-files (through season 5 only), newsradio, tavis smiley, larry sanders, mst3k, adult swim, degrassi, goodness gracious me, duckman, the critic, baseball tonight, wwe raw, conan o'brien, northern exposure, family ties, head of the class, ming's quest, east meets west, jesse's america, chef, new scandinavian cooking (because he cooks with a fjord in the background), night visions (for henry rollins), perfect strangers, the ben stiller show, andy richter conrols the universe, john ratzenberger's made in america, seaquest dsv, tom goes to the mayor
native son, the transitional program, a different mirror, high fidelity, spiels of a minuteman, ender's game, about a boy, our band could be your life, have a nice day
esmael sarmiento