most anything from the 19th century (excepting rickets and excessive soot), architecture, antiques, art, bikes, boys on bikes, books, cats, design, reading, landscape paintings, being crafty, classical/romantic era music, design and art history, picturesque tenebrosity, generational cohort studies, tight pants, psychology, museum visiting, nice hipster faggots, the interpretation of material culture, having food coma, aesthetic discourse, meta-narativity, the dialectical progression of the zeitgeist, periodization, semiotics, the performativity of gender, sweet bikes, sleazy mustaches, anachronistic lifestyles, curatorial impulses, epicurean excess, parallel identities, protensive vocabularies, etymology, kittens, drag queens, words that end in -ism, npr,
Music:
Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner, Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass, Steve Reich,Alkaline Trio, The Arcade Fire, The Avalanches, Avenue D, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Kweller, Bjork, Bonnie Tyler, Bronski Beat, Cat Power, Clinic, The Cure, The Dandy Warhols, The Decemberists, Dirty Sanchez, Dynasty, Fischerspooner, Goldfrapp, Grandaddy, Gravy Train!!!, Hefner, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Jimmy Eat World, Jonny McGovern, Joy Division, The Killers, The Knife, La'Mady, Ladytron, Le Tigre, The Lovemakers, M.I.A., The Magnetic Fields, Margot & The Nuclear So-and-so's, Mates of State, Modest Mouse, The Moldy Peaches, Office, Patrick Wolf, Peaches, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Bjorn and John, The Pixies, Placebo, Portishead, The Postal Service, The Presets, REM, Ratatat, Reggie & The Full Effect, Restiform Bodies, Rilo Kiley, Scissor Sisters, The Sea & Cake, She Wants Revenge, The Shins, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Starlight Mints, Stereo Total, Stereolab, The Strokes, Tears for Fears, Tracy + The Plastics, The Unicorns, Vive la Fête, The White Stripes, Wilco, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Movies:
Farewell My Concubine, Metropolis, Annie Hall, Donnie Darko, The Fifth Element, Run Lola Run, 2001: A Space Oddessy, Blade Runner, The Merchants of Cool, Barbarella, Straightjacket, Death in Venice, Desperate Living, Polyester, Pink Flamingos, The Holy Mountain, El Topo, The Queen, Notes on a Scandal
Television:
TV is so 20th century.
Books:
The Painted Word, From the Bauhaus to Our House, The Necessity of Art Speak, 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, The Dispossessed, A Wrinkle in Time, Platform, Foucault, Roland Barthes, The Nature of Order, Crime and Ornament, The Grammar of Ornament, books about the 19th century, Greek Revival America, The Domestic Manners of the Americans,
