proper grammar, women who wear glasses, comic books, inappropriate laughter, etymology, semantics, shitty Russian accents, guitars I can't afford, calligraphy, creative euphemisms for going to the bathroom
lateral thinkers and coquettish winkers
Beastie Boys, Mark Ronson, Capdown, 7L and Esoteric, Common Rider, Talib Kweli, WALE, Operation Ivy, Beck, Choking Victim, Pharoahe Monch, The Vandals, Firewater, The Dresden Dolls, Sondre Lerche, Feist, That Handsome Devil, Klaxons, Plastilina Mosh, Grandaddy, The Black Keys
Trainspotting, American Movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Half Nelson, Hot Fuzz, The Royal Tenenbaums, i ♥ huckabees, The Filth and the Fury, Quills, Rude Boy, Monty Python films, F for Fake, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Mindscape of Alan Moore, Shaun of the Dead
The Venture Bros, Battlestar Galactica, Deadwood, Lost, Justice League Unlimited, The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), The Kids in the Hall, The Office, 30 Rock, Rome, Fawlty Towers, Extras, Flight of the Conchords, Mr Show, The Sopranos, The Wire, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
Shame by Salman Rushdie, The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Dubliners by James Joyce, Nine Stories by J D Salinger, Hemingway's Chair by Michael Palin, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Conan fiction by Robert E Howard, A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R R Martin, James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, The Oxford English Dictionary
Robert Moses, Gertrude Stein, Philo Farnsworth, Stevie Smith, Rick Rubin, Maya Deren, Stephen Wiltshire, Georgia O'Keeffe, Bruce McCulloch