Being a grad student, useless trivia, boys, being lazy, laughing and cracking jokes, biting my nails, going to shows, making stuff, singing along to songs and not knowing all the words, good movies, coffee, Thai/vegetarian/spicy food, reading, records
Also, people in Chicago--the interesting and intelligent ones. And hot musicians.
Punk duh (mostly late 70s and early 80s). I also like power pop, jazz, metal, oldies, any bands with "the", anything rock 'n roll: the Gizmos, the Reatards, Dead Moon, the Spits, the Undertones, Teenage Head, the Nerves, Bauhaus, X, the Germs, the Buzzcocks, Cock Sparrer, the Damned, the Dead Boys, the Misfits, the Ramones, old Agnostic front, P.i.L., T.S.O.L., Bad Brains, the Minutemen, the Dils, the Saints, the Smiths, Joy Division, Guitar Wolf, Nikki and the Corvettes, the Selector, Madness, Turbo Negro, Venom, the Slits, Poison Idea, Eyehategod, Kreator, old Metallica, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Pentagram, My Bloody Valentine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Stooges, Blue Cheer, New York Dolls, Motorhead, Born Against, D.R.I., the Circle Jerks, Gang of Four, Wire, Capitalist Casualties, Outkast, Jurrassic 5, the Cramps, Edith Piaf, the Who, James Brown, Empire of Shit, Rush, Guns 'n Roses, Sade, Dionne Warwick, the Meatmen, GG Allin, the Runaways, Heart, Melt Banana, the Velvet Underground, and the list could go on and on and on and on...
Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Altered States, Naked Lunch, Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, John Waters, some Quentin Tarentino, Human Nature, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Memento, the Outsiders, Fight Club, the Follower, the Omen, original Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Brazil, Monty Python, and so many more.
Television is reality, and reality is less than television.
Beatnik lit, A People's History of the United States, Please Kill Me, 1984, Animal Farm, The Outsiders, The Catcher in the Rye, The Trial