music, film, art, pretentious crap like that.
guitar.
anyone who wants to rock out melodically.
koalas.
christopher walken. gary oldman. franz kafka. holly golightly.also, i want to make an HBO special where i unite jack white and jack black in the same room. hilarity and antics ensue. the title: "back and white." it'll air after entourage.
the abbreviated list---...and you will know us by the trail of dead, the afghan whigs, alkaline trio, the anniversary, aqubats, ash, at the drive in, azure ray, ben folds (five), black flag, bob dylan, braid, brand new, bright eyes, built to spill, burning airlines, cap'n jazz, catherine, cracker, creeper lagoon, crumb, cursive, dashboard confessional, dead kennedys, dead milkmen, death cab for cutie, desparecidos, descendents, dig, dinosaur jr, dj spooky, dresden dolls, drive like jehu, eels, elliott, elliott smith, elvis costello, esthero, face to face, failure, faith no more, feeder, fig dish, fiona apple, the fire theft, the flaming lips, foo fighters, frogs, fugazi, the get up kids, girls vs. boys, grandaddy, green apple quick step, guster, guttermouth, the halo benders, harvey danger, helmet, hey mercedes, hooverphonic, hum, husker du, james, jane's addiction, jawbox, jawbreaker, the jealous sound, jeff buckley, jeremy enigk, jets to brazil, jimmy eat world, joan of arc, john coltrane, johnny cash, kenna, kent, kinski, knapsack, koufax, kula shaker, kyuss, last kid picked, the lemonheads, link 80, liz phair, llama farmers, local h, lou reed, lucas, m.i.r.v., marcy playground, massive attack, mates of state, mazzy star, meat puppets, melvins, millencolin, minor threat, the misfits, modest mouse, modey lemon, morphine, mr. bungle, mudhoney, the muder city devils, mxpx, my hotel year, ned's atomic dustbin, neil young, nerf herder, nirvanva, no use for a name, nofx, olive, our lady peace, ours, pavement, pearl jam, pedro the lion, pink floyd, pixies, placebo, poe, polara, polaris, the polyphonic spree, portishead, the postal service, PUSA, pretty girls make graves, the promis ring, propellerheads, pulp, r.e.m., radiohead, radish, rage against the machine, rainer maria, the rake's progress, rancid, rites of spring, rival schools, run-D.M.C., sebadoh, self, the shins, sigur ros, silverchair, sleater-kinney, sleeper, smashing pumpkins, smoking popes, social distortion, sonic youth, soul coughing, spacehog, squarepusher, star 69, stone temple pilots, sunny day real estate, superchunk, superdrag, supersuckers, system of a down, taking back sunday, tenacious d, texas is the reason, third eye blind, thursday, the toadies, tool, travis, trembling blue stars, tricky, tripping daisy, tub ring, u2, underworld, the vandals, veruca salt, violent femmes, wax, weezer, wen, whitetail, the who, william shatner
directors: danny boyle, stephen soderbergh, kevin smith, p.t. anderson, quentin tarantino, jean-pierre jeunet, guy ritchie, david fincher, terry gilliam, oliver stone, luc besson, cameron crowe.
officially off the list: jim jarmush, david lynch, and john waters.
the simpsons. south park. the family guy. why are all the best social satires on television masked as cartoons? also: the office. scrubs. the daily show and its faithful companion the colbert report.
authors: irvine welsh, stephen king, kurt vonnegut, c.s.lewis, philip k. dick, stephen hawking, kafka, dante, kerouac, mark twain, voltaire... others
blake shwarzenbach
johnny greenwood
gambit
john jay
david fincher
jesus christ