Music, Skateboarding, Roller Derby, Painting, Reading, Snowboarding, Running, Trivia, Travel, Martial Arts, Crossword Puzzles, Museums, Chess.
Music:
Generally: metal, punk, garage, new wave, some rap, jazz, country, classical.
Specifically: Black Sabbath, 7 Seconds, Iron Maiden, Public Enemy, Naked Raygun, Jon Spencer, Agent Orange, Mastodon, Smiths, Circle Jerks, Merle Haggard, Descendents, Turbo Negro, Beastie Boys, DEVO, Charlie Parker, Melvins, Joe Jackson, John Coltrane, Belle and Sebastian, Ahmad Jahmal, New Bomb Turks, Elvis Costello, Ramones, Billy Childish, Husker Du, Sisters of Mercy, Pavement, New Order, Johnny Cash, X, Chrome Cranks, GG Allin, Frank Sinatra, The Clash, Buck Owens, Sonic Youth, Nina Hagen, Velvet Underground.....
Movies:
Valley Girl, Repo Man, Napoleon Dynamite, Dog Town and Z Boys, Ghost World, Fast Times, Dead Poets Society, Suburbia, Less Than Zero, The Omen, I Shot Andy Warhol, Party Monster, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, Shaun of the Dead, The Rachel Papers, The Outsiders, Revenge of the Nerds..
Television:
Mostly PBS: Globe Trekker, BBC news, Antiques Roadshow, Dropframe, Rick Steves Europe. Broadcast/Cable can suck it.
Books:
The Keith Moon Biography, This Much I Know is True, How Soon is Never, The Girl Who Played Go, Catcher in the Rye, Diary of Anne Frank, A Separate Peace, 1984, Anna Karenina, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, We Got the Neutron Bomb, anything by Nick Hornby, Bukowski, Burroughs, Kerouac, Updike. Art books, history books, philosophy books.
Heroes:
Everyday people who manage to do cool things despite society trying to get them to buy, sell, and be lazy.
