restoring virtues, losing vices.
Coltrane, Zorn, Sts. Augustine, Athanasius & Gregory of Nyssa, Borges, Cicero, Aristotle. And Flannery.
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, New Pornographers, Cat Power, My Bloody Valentine, Rainbow of Death, Will Oldham, DJ Screw, Ken Vandermark, Albert Ayler, Jesu, tons of dubstep and dancehall that i can't namedrop about.
The Godfather Trilogy, Napoleon Dynamite, To Live, Romero's Dead Trilogy, Return of the Living Dead I & II, Office Space, Ricky-Oh!: The Story of Ricky [the movie whence the head-crushing clip from the old Daily Show came], Rock 'N' Roll High School, The Toxic Avenger, To Kill A Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men, Stand By Me, Donnie Darko, Rushmore, Brick, the French and Italian movies i get from the library, and Bollywood.
Mystery Science Theater 3000, forever, except for that really horrible last season; All the older Adult Swim cartoons; Family Guy before it got too offensive even for me; The Simpsons; Arrested Development; Scrubs; Whose Line Is It Anyway; The Food Network, Rome, and Flight of the Conchords.
Serious: Homer, Vergil, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, St. Francis De Sales, F.A. Von Hayek, Dostoyevsky, Flannery O'Connor, James Joyce, La Santa Biblia, Church Documents, Catechism. Not Serious: P.G. Wodehouse, Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, The Far Side, all the comics i read in the paper everyday.
Charles and Suwanna Higdon. Janey Bills. Ian MacKaye. Jeff Price. John Sears. St. Athanasius. Flannery O'Connor. Harvey Darger. The monks of Clear Creek Monastery.