Music, movies, writing at coffee shops, green tea, hot chocolate, apples, pandas, penguins, Amoeba Music, Big Mama's Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad, overhyped Hollywood gatherings, Laemmle Theatres, those Later...With Jools Holland DVD's, and documentaries about the fall of once great entertainers. You know...the usual.
R.I.P. James Brown
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The Flaming Lips, B.R.M.C., Tapes 'n Tapes, The Thermals, Lali Puna, Peter Bjorn and John, The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Camera Obscura, Boris, Eagles Of Death Metal, Interpol, Bowie, Shellac, Wire, Deerhoof, Wolf Parade, Animal Collective, Lightning Bolt, Dungen, Fly Pan Am, Dead Meadow, Fantomas, Sonic Youth, Stephen Malkmus, Pavement, Les Savy Fav, Q and Not U, The Sea and Cake, Nirvana, Radiohead, The Dandy Warhols, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, Death From Above 1979, Blur, Sloan, Explosions In The Sky, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Tom Jones, Portishead, Pixies, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Iggy Pop, Mclusky, The Who, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Misfits, Magnetic Fields, White Stripes, Oasis, Broken Social Scene, Baxter Dury, Wilco, MC5, Supergrass, Apples In Stereo, The Unicorns, Islands, Cibo Matto, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pulp, XTC, Klaus Nomi, The Black Keys, OLD U2, Whirlwind Heat, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Frank Sinatra, Queens of the Stone Age, Doves, Devo, Old LL Cool J, Run DMC, The Ramones, Guitar Wolf, and many more....
Children Of Men, The Squid And The Whale, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Oldboy, Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior, Tom Yum Goong (The Protector), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, It's All Gone Pete Tong, 24 Hour Party People, The Aviator, Amelie, Adaptation, Jules Et Jim, The Godfather 1 and 2, Goodfellas, Being John Malkovich, Quick Change, Lost In Translation, Rushmore, Riding Giants, Evil Dead Trilogy, Slither, The Breakin' movies, Love Liza, Chungking Express, Dead Alive, Dawn of the Dead, Kevin Smith, Coen Bros, True Romance, The Iron Giant, City Of Lost Children, Donnie Darko, They Live, Fletch, Igby Goes Down, The Sting, Inherit The Wind, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love, Breathless (Godard not Gere), Urgh! A Music War, The Fearless Freaks, Memento, Chopper, High Fidelity, Fear of a Black Hat, Logan's Run, The Goonies, John Hughes movies, Quentin Tarantino movies, and an infinite amount of others.
Mr. Show, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Conan O'Brien, Da Ali G Show, Family Guy, Simpsons, American Dad, That 70's Show, Night Court.
Killer Instinct by Jane Hamsher, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, The Dirt by Motley Crue, etc...
Wayne Coyne, Steve Albini, Anton Newcombe, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Stephen Merritt, David Cross, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Soy Bomb! :P