I like and dislike almost everything.
hot pants people
As of late, a lot of Ratatat, Hot Chip and Michael Jackson. Other loveys: Betty Carter, Nina Simone, Ernest Ranglin, Franz Ferdinand, Abida Parveen, Emperor X, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Holland Quartet, Pharoah Sanders, Man Man Iron & Wine, Jali Musa Jawara, Bebo & Cigala, Icy Demons, David Bowie, Cesaria Evora, TV on the Radio, Antibalas, Leslie & the LYs, Lila Downs, Madonna, Paolo Meneguzzi, Yo La Tengo, Sathima Bea Benjamin, Smog, Don Pullen, Oumou Sangare, Ibrahim Ferrer, Fela Kuti, Chief Stephen Osadebe, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, and Jerry Gonzalez.
So many!
Reruns of ER, Kids in the Hall, RENO911 and youtube really.
George Saunders everything, and Moby Dick.
Benjamin Franklin. For arguing that science should focus on discovering "some Drug, wholesome and not disagreeable, to be mixed with our common food, or sauces, that shall render the natural discharges of Wind from our Bodies not only inoffensive, but agreeable as Perfumes." Signed off at the end: "In short, this Invention, if completed, would be, as Bacon expresses it, Bringing Philosophy home to Men's Business and Bosoms. And I cannot but conclude, that in comparison therewith for universal and continual Utility, the Science of the Philosphers abovementioned, even with the addition, Gentlemen, of your 'figure quelconque,' and the figures inscribed in it, are, all together, scarcely worth a FART-HING."