Late medieval and Expressionist art, abandoned buildings, subway tunnels, and anything else with an unsettling history. Sarcasm, puzzles, the beach at night, Erotic Photohunt, wandering around manhattan, drinking on fire escapes in the summer, lazy Sunday mornings with the Times crossword
I'm desperately seeking my PhD, but it insists on playing hard-to-get.
All the songs that the kids like.
Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Being John Malkovich, Heathers, The Rules of the Game, The Royal Tenenbaums, Delicatessan, Chasing Amy, almost all cheesy horror
This American Life, House, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, Grey's Anatomy, The State, Colbert Report, Daily Show, The Simpsons, Aqua Teen
Books about late medieval devotional art and its contemporary social implications. Kafka, Mark Twain, Samuel Beckett, Arts & Letters Daily, the Onion, Salon, Bukowski, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Hellblazer, Preacher series, TS Eliot, Rilke, How Would a Patriot Act?, In the Middle, Diesel Sweeties, This Modern World (comic and blog). Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and, of course, Archie comics.