subjecting my friends to exhaustive lists! other interests: bamboo chimes, foghorns, churchbells, train whistles, organic sounds, homemade music, awkward adolescents, coffee, croquet, india cafe buffet, badminton, rollercoasters, people-watching, squirrel-watching, hand-holding, crosshatching, old people, loose leaf tea, loose leaf paper, mod podge, cemeteries, babies, bare feet in the grass, sitting in a parked car in the rain, abstract conversations, taking things literally, taking things out of context, making jokes out of everything, altering the wording of comics and headlines to make them funny, bros before hos, learnin' the learns, manners, sleeping over, manual labor, exchanging favors, autumn, the marx brothers, midnight adventures, my amazing brothers and sisters, hamburg inn no. 2, string theory, the new york times crossword, hardwood floors, nesting, cuddling, picnics, planning things to look forward to, big dogs, playing with hair, playing with makeup, making art, defying genetics, the moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, ambitious persons, brushing my teeth in the shower, exfoliating and moisturizing, pheromones, dinosaurs, detox, washington street, serifs upon serifs, sniffing books when no one's looking, the smell of scotch tape, olden times, old movies, occasionally a new movie, jump on a trampoline, the cosmos, the microcosmos, glitter, butternut squash, puffy stickers, menial tasks of yore becoming novel again, decorating, higher standards, a happy surprise, attention to detail, lovely handwriting, a canopy of trees, a red brick road, a bicycle ride, brown paper packages tied up with strings, school supplies, a stone cottage, a fireplace, people on my wavelength, people what don't miss a beat, flowin'.
Advantage, Aimee Mann, Air, Al Green, Aluminum Group, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, Architecture in Helsinki, Atmosphere, BS 2000, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Kweller, Bill Withers, Billy Joel, Bix Beiderbecke, Björk, Blonde Redhead, Blur, Boards of Canada, Books, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Buddy Holly, Built to Spill, Cake, Cibo Matto, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Clash, Cleptones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cure, David Bowie, David Byrne, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Dismemberment Plan, Django Reinhardt, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Fiery Furnaces, Fiona Apple, Flaming Lips, Frank Black, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Franz Ferdinand, Go! Team, Hank Williams, Harry Belafonte, Islands, INXS, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Joanna Newsom, Johnny Cash, Junior/Senior, Jurassic 5, King Toad, Liz Phair (pre-"Liz Phair"), Louis Armstrong, MGMT, MIA, Magnetic Fields, Mark Mothersbaugh, Marvin Gaye, Mates of State, Matisyahu, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Michael Jackson, Modest Mouse, Moldy Peaches, Mozart, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Pornographers, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Of Montreal, Otis Redding, PJ Harvey, Patsy Cline, Paul Simon, Pavement, Peaches, Pixies, Pizzicato Five, Polyphonic Spree, Portishead, Postal Service, Queen, Radiohead, Ratatat, Regina Spektor, Rosemary Clooney, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Cooke, Scott Joplin, Shins, Simon and Garfunkel, Smiths, Snoop Dogg, Soul Coughing, Spoon, Starlight Mints, Strokes, Sufjan Stevens, T-Rex, Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, Tom Waits, Traveling Wilburys, Ugly Casanova, Unicorns, Van Morrison, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, Ween, White Stripes, Wilco, Wolf Parade, Yann Tiersen, Yo La Tengo, TV themes of the seventies and eighties.
Animal Crackers, The Triplets of Belville, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Harold and Maude, To Be and to Have, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Battle Royale, Tampopo, Paper Moon, The Big Lebowski, Bullets Over Broadway, Kung Fu Hustle, Stop Making Sense, Eraserhead, Now Voyager, Down By Law, Punch Drunk Love, Freaky Friday (1976), It's A Wonderful Life, Kill Bill, The Jerk, Edward Scissorhands, All About Eve, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Peter Pan, Cinderella, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Amadeus, The Professional, It Happened One Night, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Nosferatu, Annie Hall, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Peter and the Wolf, Mermaids, Groundhog Day, A Christmas Story, Home for the Holidays, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring, The Shawshank Redemption, Labyrinth, The Royal Tenenbaums, Hair, West Side Story, the freaky and poorly dubbed Pippi Longstockings, alla dem Fred and Gingers, Humpcat Backpack I mean My Neighbor Totoro.
Mr. Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Vicar of Dibley, Kids in the Hall, Seinfeld, The Colbert Report, Sifl and Olly, Strangers With Candy, Roseanne, The Twilight Zone, Spaceghost Coast-to-Coast, Whose Line is it Anyway?, I Love Lucy, Da Ali G Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Fast Food My Way with Jacques Pepin, Frontline, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Wallace and Gromit, The Elegant Universe, David Attenborough's The Life of Birds, NOVA.
Oldentimes cookbooks with obsolete ingredients and technicolor frosted meat sandwiches. Magazines, like um, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and Vogue.
Groucho Marx, Lynda Barry, David Byrne, Dawn French, Stephen Colbert, Bill Hicks. Oh, f'real-life? My siblings. No kiddin'.