Friends, family, fist fights. Flan Fridays!
XTC, Old '97s, Pixies, AIR, Doves, Eels, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, TV on the Radio, Ramones, Beatles, New Pornographers, Ween, The Kinks, Beck, David Bowie, Drive-By Truckers, Dusty Springfield, Granddaddy, Joy Division, Interpol, Neko Case, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, any band that starts with Super actually, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, The Postal Service, REM, Rev. Horton Heat, TMBG, Tom Waits, Cheap Trick, Ed Harcourt, The Shins, The Verve, Wilco, Wire, Sigur Ros, The Zutons, Bloc Party, Apples In Stereo
Being John Malkovich, Best in Show, Lord of the Rings, Coen Bros, Kubrick, Pixar, Iron Giant, Eternal Sunshine..., Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Addams Family Values, The Changeling, Manchurian Candidate (both!). Batman Begins, Goodfellas, The Departed, 40 Year Old Virgin. 28 Days Later, Borat, Boogie Nights. Children Of Men, Alien, Aliens, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz
Battlestar Galactica, Strangers With Candy, Reno 911!, Mr. Show, Daily Show, Simpsons, The Office, Arrested Development, Freaks & Geeks, Da Ali G Show, Kath & Kim, The Wire, 30 Rock, Lost
Dark Tower series, Life of Pi, Crimson Petal and the White, A Confederacy of Dunces, David Sedaris, Books about zombies, His Dark Materials, Freakanomics, Malcolm Gladwell, Watchmen, 1984/Animal Farm, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Neil Gaiman
Ignatius J. Reilly