The rock and the roll; movies, film, cinema; literature; sport; fantasy sport; New York Jets football; New York Yankees baseball; comics; video games; imbibing; gastronomy
People who lament the ongoing downfall of the United States.
The purpose of this list to ensure that you know that I am cooler than you.Texas Funk: Black Gold From the Lone Star State 1968-1975; Human Sexual Response; John Lee Hooker; Long John Hunter; Jay Reatard; the Knack; Exploding Hearts; the Lime Spiders; the Downliners Sect; Frank Black; the Drones; the Kinks; Devo; Big Walter Horton; Flamin' Groovies; the first Fiery Furnaces album; Frankie Lee Sims; R.L. Burnside; Slim Harpo; the Undertones; Modern Lovers; 999; Aretha Franklin; Otis Redding; Big Mama Thornton; the Cars; the Chronics; Chuck Berry; Sonic Youth; Compulsive Gamblers; the Damned; Ray Charles; the Smithereens; Billy Childish; the Sonics; Sonny Boy Williamson; Squeeze; Elvis Costello; the Stooges; T-Model Ford; Hellwood; the Hives; Hoodoo Gurus; Radio Birdman; Hound Dog Taylor; the Dirtbombs; Howlin' Wolf; James Brown; the Jesus & Mary Chain; Big Joe Turner; John Lee Hooker; Loli & the Chones; Junior Wells; Robert Belfour; the Lost Sounds; Magic Sam; Motorhead; OK Go; Little Richard; the Left; Lazy Cowgirls; Wilson Pickett
Begin snobbery...The Gore Gore Girls; the Black Dahlia; Miracle of Morgan's Creek; Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?; the Third Man; Night of the Living Dead; Written on the Wind; Aguirre: the Wrath of God; Army of Shadows; and In the Mood For Love
The Wire, Mad Men, sometimes the Office, and 30 Rock
Words Into Type; Chicago Manual of Style; Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: 11th Edition; Philip Roth; James Ellroy; Paul Theroux (travel stuff only because his fiction blows); Colin Thubron; Mencken; Graham Greene
Captain America; Detectives William "Bunk" Moreland and Jimmy McNulty