piano, guitar, travel (read: escapism), really good books, movies (not necessarily really good movies), photography, cooking, eating, drinking (more escapism), tennis, frisbee, aikido, snowboarding, nursing my wounds
Badass Optimists.
otis redding, bob dylan, tom waits, low, the pixies, songs:ohia, mogwai, bingo!, talking heads, the blackheart procession, the notwist, los hombres calientes, james brown, hugh pool, iron and wine, ratatat, aesop rock, fourtet, neutral milk hotel, interpol, casiotone for the painfully alone, deerhoof, explosions in the sky, godspeed you black emperor, beartrap, dirty three, yeah yeah yeahs, timos, the mountain goats, tvb, johnny cash, blonde redhead, abertronix, javelin, and of course, those sweet dulcet tones of the inimitable ben stedman
dr. strangelove, young frankenstein, chinatown, dirty work, city of lost children, anything w/christopher walken or bill murray, fight club, office space, tetsuo, rushmore, cannibal the musical, princess bride, eternal sunshine, 2046, zoolander, joe dirt, the ladies man, big lebowski, miller's crossing, seven, kung fu hustle, old boy, audition (keedy keedy keedy...)
arrested development, home movies, twin peaks, tv funhouse (the one with doug and the ani-pals, not the snl cartoons. well, except for the one with kobayashi...and the one with mr. t..."I need work!"), sopranos, strangers with candy, futurama, bleach, samurai champloo, iron chef
east of eden, ada, the idiot, the fall, welcome to the monkey house, thus spoke zarathustra, anything by HST, winter of our discontent, the rachel papers, quantity theory of insanity, monkey vs. robot, catcher in the rye, my new fighting technique is unstoppable
Hunter S. Thompson, Vladimir Nabokov, Tom Waits