unbridled sarcasm, art, shows, music, Latin, literature, deconstruction, poststructuralism, stilettos, coquettish endeavors, coffee, philosophy, film, photography, politics, law, rhetoric, language, de stijl and bauhaus architecture, stoicism, misanthropy, fashion ..
Artistically/musically inclined people with intelligence, wit and impeccable taste -- that is, troubled geniuses, tortured artists, misanthropic elitists, coquettish conversationalists...
Silversun Pickups, The Stills, Ambulance LTD, Earlimart, Autolux, The Helio Sequence, Dirty on Purpose, Sea Wolf, Gliss, Moving Units, Calexico, The Little Ones, Sparklehorse, Rogue Wave, Darker My Love, Beulah, Cold War Kids, Richard Swift, Imaad Wasif, Loney, Dear, Vietnam, The Rapture, Pinback, Holiday for Strings, Of Montreal, Briertone, The Decemberists, 16 Horsepower, Battles, Beirut, Deerhunter, Snowden, Grizzly Bear, We Are Scientists, Wolf Parade, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Pleased, Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tapes ‘n Tapes, Death From Above 1979, Kings of Convenience, Phoenix, Sam Prekop, The Fictions, Great Northern, Doves, Spoon, Iron + Wine, The Magic Numbers, The Velvet Teen, Hood, Tangram, Evening, Everybody Else, Addison, French Kicks, The Shore, Secret Machines, Dead Meadow, The Colour, Elefant, The Dears, Silver Sunshine, !!!, LCD Soundsystem, The Elected, Irving, Holopaw, Sea Ray, Diamond Nights, The Shins, etc...
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Pollock, Kikujiro, Memento, The Following, The Spanish Prisoner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Woody Allen films, Fellini's 8 1/2, Neil LaBute films, I Heart Huckabees, Coen brothers films, David Mamet films, He Loves me, He Loves me Not
Authors/Poets/Writers: Madame de Staël, Aristotle, Plato, Steinbeck, Byron, Cicero, Virgil, Shelley, Wilde, Voltaire, Coleridge, Keats, Wordsworth, Montaigne, Huxley, Kant, Mill, Derrida, Fitzgerald, Byron, Descartes, Milton, Heidegger, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Orwell, Rousseau, T.S. Eliot, Hume, de Man, Machiavelli, Erasmus, Hegel
Christiane Amanpour, Madame de Staël, Stephen Pederson