Breathing and general survival. also music, discussion, reading, writing, building stuff, and hanging around with good people.
A man turned inside out. Failing that, then Jack Kerouac, Miles Davis, Billy Corgan, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, Mitch Hedburg, William S Burroughs, Plato, Ernest Hemingway, David Cross, a whole plethora of dead rock stars, George Orwell, J.S Bach, Chopin, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Ken Kesey, Bob Dylan, J.D. Salinger, Bill Hicks, and maybe you, if you're not too much of a fucking loser.
As far as genres go, mostly rock, blues, folk, indie, classical/baroque/renaissance, alternative, jazz, and whatever I feel like really. Bands include:
Blue album era Weezer
The Smiths
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Shins
Pixies
Postal Service
SRV
Johnny Winter
Muddy Waters
Explosions in the Sky
My Bloody Valentine
Slowdive
Mogwai
Stars
Broken Social Scene
Kyuss
Mono
Miles
Coltrane
Monk
Godspeed you black emperor
A silver mt. zion
The Eels
Sufjan Stevens
Elliot Smith
Do Make Say Think
Bob Dylan
Beck
Medeski Martin + Wood
Frou Frou
etc
Also, I hate:
- whiny emo bands/kids/assholes
- xHARDxCOREx sXe
- Actually, anything ending in -core
- office rock
- one chord songs. I hate 2 chord songs 50% less.
- death/sludge/cookiemonster metal
Rushmore, Royal tenenbaums, Memento, American Psycho, Bottle rocket, I heart huckabees, The big lebowski, Army of darkness, Evil dead 1+2, Leon, Garden state, Fear and loathing, Lost in Translation, Ferris Bueller's day off, pulp fiction, the fucking goonies,
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. The Office (UK), Ali G, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Six Feet Under
1984, Animal farm, Even cowgirls get the blues, Skinny legs and all, Naked Lunch, On the Road, Dharma Bums, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dune, Fahrenheit 451, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, Fight Club
Lisa Hoffman! Jack Kerouac, Kevin Shields, Jared Leto, Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Joe Strummer, Zach Braff, Jason Bateman, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Michael Cera, Will Arnett, David Cross, Alan Moulder, Butch Vig, Steve Carrell, , Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Billy Corgan, Eric Johnson, Alex Lifeson, Jeff Mangum, Kevin Drew, Torquil Campbell, Ben Folds, Beck, Bill Hicks, Mitch Hedberg