American literature, Aretha Franklin, art, baseball, books, burgers, chicken and waffles, Cindy Sherman, climate change, clubbing, dance music, djing, dogs, english, english dialects, environment, film, grammar, high fidelity, indie rock, James Joyce, Jewish deli food, literature, motown, music, Nick Hornby, pastrami, Pepsi, pop culture, records, Sarah Silverman, soul, standup comedy, terriers, the Beatles, the east village, the english language, the Red Sox, the Simpsons, Thomas Pynchon, trivia, urban life, vinyl, writing.
Fellow writers. Fellow obscurantists and statheads. Music geeks. Trivia buffs. Film buffs. Good friends we have, good friends we've lost. Or just interesting people.
Motown, the White Stripes, Marvin Gaye, Portishead, Aretha, Gin Blossoms, Nirvana, Janis Joplin, Basement Jaxx, Stevie Wonder, Dashboard Confessional, Pet Shop Boys, Emmylou Harris, anything on Defected or Subliminal, the Jam
Annie Hall, Manhattan, Woody Allen films in general, Groundhog Day, High Fidelity, Casablanca (every line a marvel), Withnail and I, Breathless (A Bout du Souffle), When Harry Met Sally, Heathers, Trainspotting, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Pulp Fiction
The Simpsons, Sex and the City, Undeclared, Friends, most Comedy Central stuff, the Daily Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Black Adder, My So Called Life, the Sopranos, Coupling, the Office
High Fidelity, The Crying of Lot 49, V, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Confessions of a Raving Unconfined Nut, Ulysses, The Bell Jar, Emma