writing, opinioneering, music, playing my guitar, riding bikes, designing underwhelming websites that will never make any money, being an encyclopedia of useless facts, losing faith in the human race on a daily basis, wasting time on the internet, graphic design, news, urbanism, architecture, sustainability, buffalo, world history, cities, anthropology, dabbling with philosophical concepts that go way over my head, elitism; any other lame "ism" for that matter
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my bloody valentine, depeche mode, belle and sebastian, deathcab for cutie, my morning jacket, arcade fire, massive attack, blur, radiohead, the shins, primal scream, interpol, the jam, rolling stones, slowdive, oasis, ride, new order, stone roses, south, santogold, nada surf, and you will know us by the trail of dead, the zombies, tokyo police club, band of horses, sloan, mojave 3, flaming lips, afghan whigs, ted leo, postal service, jeff buckley, pulp, swervedriver, the kinks, the pixies, sonic youth, portishead, the verve, clinic, the clientele, mansun, death from above 1979, neko case, meanest man contest, broken social scene, qotsa, the smiths, spoon, iron and wine, joy division, modest mouse, spiritualized, dj shadow, moving units, chapterhouse, gnr, radio4, tv on the radio, air, suede, john vanderslice, the white stripes, the verve, jurassic 5, the jesus and mary chain, starlight mints, the french kicks, le tigre, sons and daughters, the talking heads, supergrass, of montreal, animal collective, pinback, doves, bloc party, turbonegro, black keys, ryan adams, wilco, rialto, luna, queen, q and not u, the faint, the beach boys, folk implosion, catherine wheel, lush, secret machines, M83, the wrens, happy mondays, REM, the boo radleys, manic street preachers, the hold steady, stars, red house painters/sunkillmoon/mark kozalek, lali puna, the new pornographers, phoenix, kings of leon
pulp fiction, high fidelity, fight club, clerks, a clockwork orange, royal tenenbaums, a fish called wanda, anything monthy python, 24hr party people, the last waltz, empire records, serenity, reservoir dogs, office space, crash, the big lewbowski, 5th element, harold and kumar go to whitecastle, oceans 11, scarface, american beauty
the daily show, colbert report, curb your enthusiasm, seinfeld, simpsons, family guy, futurama, house, real time w/ bill maher, SNL, anything on the history channel, SVU, firefly (R.I.P.)