Masked vigilantism, lowbrow brilliance, exotically-flavored ice cream, regular dudes making irregular music, lox with cream cheese on an everything bagel, punk rock, umbrellas (they're very helpful when it rains), charting phenomenon and hierarchies, New Zealand pop, Tom Scharpling, session beer, pizza, communist propaganda, sequential art, pad ki mao, antiquated sonic mediums, women who are out of my league, immaturity, vegetable samosas, looking like I just woke up (I usually just did), eloquent rants, keeping my nose clean
I'd like to meet:
Blogging once a millenium as The Unblinking Ear , DJ Paul Bruno is the best kind of music snob--he knows the hits AND the deep cuts that make you want to take somebody, anybody, home.
Music:
Angry Samoans, the Buzzcocks, the Byrds, the Clash, the Clean, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves, Desperate Bicycles, Electric Eels, the Embarrassment, the Fall, the Feelies, the Go-Betweens, the Gordons, Guided By Voices, the Gun Club, H?sker D?, Tommy Keene, the Kinks, Le Peste, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Love, the Minutemen, the Misfits, Mission of Burma, the Modern Lovers, the Nerves, New Pornographers, Nirvana, the Oxford Collapse, the Pagans, Pere Ubu, the Pretty Things, Prisonshake, the Real Kids, The Reigning Sound, the Rolling Stones, The Saints, Silkworm, the Sonics, Spoon, the Stooges, Times New Viking, the Troggs, the Urinals/100 Flowers, the Velvet Underground, Wire, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young, Young Marble Giants, the Zombies
Movies:
Ed Wood, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, The Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap, High Fidelity, Shuan of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead 2, John Carpenter's The Thing, Predator, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Robocop, The Empire Strikes Back, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Paths of Glory, Adaptation, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
Television:
30 Rock, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!, The Simpsons, Lost, The Venture Brothers, Ninja Warrior, Man Vs Wild, Planet Earth, Human Giant, The Sopranos, Arrested Development, Newsradio, Freaks and Geeks, Spaced, Mr Show, Get a Life, Batman: The Animated Series, almost anything on the Discovery Channel
Books:
Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan, Huxley - Brave New World, Meltzer - A Whore Just Like the Rest, Savage - England's Dreaming, Azerrad - Our Band Could Be Your Life, Moore/ Gibbons - Watchmen, Moore/Ha - Top Ten, Clowes - Ice Haven, Caricature, Bagge- Hate, Benids/Maleev- Daredevil
