Old Buildings, Dead Bodies, Annoying Music, Fuffy Kitties, Billy & Steve (they're my imaginary friends), Urban Exploring, Alley Shopping, Serial Killers, renaming all of the Lord of the Rings characters with alcoholic beverages, conducting pseudo-scientific behavioral experiments on the cats, wearing very painful but oh so cute shoes, objectifing boys from my kitchen window, starting trouble, blowing stuff up (only if it has pretty colors and goes boom)
Someone to go urban exploring with and someone else who eats lutefisk.
Ted Leo, Beck, Fugazi, Sleater Kinnney, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Death Cab, The Paperchase, Zeppelin, Sugarcubes, Mission of Burma, Joy Divison, Spoon, Brazilian Girls, Elliott Smith, Pedro the Lion, Beta Band, Chris Isaack, Gang of Four, Against Me, Placebo, Broken Social Scene, Black Eyes, Q and Not U, The Evens, The New Pornographers, The Clash, Lou Reed, The Ramones, The Decemberists, The Distillers, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Wolf Parade and many many more. I have over 400cds. However I find myself listening to NPR constantly. I fall asleep to BBC World News and listen to it in my car. I rather enjoy This American Life and Car Talk in the car.
Identity, La Jette, Blade Runner, Motorcycle Diaries, Batman Returns and Begins, Flash Gordon, Shaun of the Dead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Dark Crystal, Donnie Darko, Old School, Run Lola Run, Blood Simple, Clay Pigeons, Virgin Suicides, Gothika, Fight Club, Kill Bill, Orlando, Antonia's Line, Concieving Ada, Garden State, SLC Punk, Romper Stomper (absolutely love the last scene) Constantine, Sin City
Lost (don't get me started I'll talk for an hour about a single episode), Cowboy Bebop, X-files, Law & Order (SVU is my favorite), NOVA, Globe Trekker, POV, History Detectives, any documentry on PBS, Wire in the Blood (BBC)
Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Robbins, The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers, Straight Man by Richard Russo (Empire Falls has good character development, skip the movie), Stiff by Mary Roach, non-fiction about criminal profiling, forensic science, anthropology, urban revitalization, architecture, historic preservation
I have no heroes. I am my own tragic hero.