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The Man
Mainly indie stuff, alt-country, and classic rock, Pavement, Modest Mouse, Wilco, Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Led Zeppelin, My Morning Jacket, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Who, Tom Petty, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Bright Eyes, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, White Stripes, Strokes....... oh- I like to pull out some Guns 'n Roses, Poison, or Skid Row every now and again
American Beauty, Almost Famous, Big Lebowski (any Coen brothers..... but especially Big Lebowski), Clerks- any Kevin Smith, Best in Show (any Christopher Guest), The Graduate, Fight Club (any Fincher), Lost in Translation, Rushmore (all Wes Anderson.... including Life Aquatic- I'm telling you, watch it again.....), Glengary Glenn Ross, Spanish Prisoner (anything David Mamet writes), Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore (anything Adam Sandler touches), Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo's stuff....... I guess Brown Bunny was pretty good too), Star Wars (I liked the originals better, but Episode 3 was pretty kickass), Godfather I and II (III was a piece of shit), Ghost World, Pi, Requiem for a Dream (Aranofsky's stuff....... but only once, I can never watch it twice; same with Todd Solondz), Kill Bill I and II, Pulp Fiction (hate Quentin Tarantino, love his work), Swingers was pretty good, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights, There Will be Blood
"The news", Arrested Development, The Office, Entourage, X-Files, Law and Order, Mr. Show, Tenacious D, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire
I'm concurrently reading Atlas Shrugged (man that thing is long.......) by Ayn Rand and the myriad of textbooks that are required of my MBA program. I dig satirical contemporary non-fiction (John Stewart's books are hi-la-ri-ous!!) as well as anything about financial/economic topics. Fiction: Ayn Rand, JD Salinger, Jack Kerouac (I guess that's fiction...), Nick Hornby, many more...
Alan Greenspan, John Stewart, David Cross, oh.... and Captain Murphy from Sealab 2021