Literature, film, comics, anime, Saturday morning cartoons, Sunday morning coffee, unabashed snobbery, happy hour, unsolicited recommendations, half-assed attempts at learning languages, blurring the distinction between high and low culture.
Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo... The well-read. The perpetually bored. Those who think the gin and tonic is just about the best drink EVER. Those who feel equally at home discussing Billy Wilder as they do Billy Zabka. Oh yeah:
Tom Waits, The Smiths, Neko Case, Belle & Sebastian, Ladytron, Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division, Pixies, Goldfrapp, Scissor Sisters, Underworld, The Knife, Saint Etienne, Junior Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Portishead, Laura Cantrell, Magnetic Fields, El Perro Del Mar, Massive Attack, !!!/Out Hud, Pizzicato Five, The Pipettes, The The, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Spankrock, Patrick Wolf, Bowie...
Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Howard Hawks, Akira Kurasawa, MIYAZAKI!, Kieslowski, Michael Mann, Anthony Mann, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Wong Kar Wai, Tarkovsky, Preston Sturges, John Sturges, Takeshi Kitano, Tsai Ming-liang, Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorcese, John Huston, Coen Bros, Ernst Lubitsch, Werner Herzog, Atom Egoyan, Lars Von Trier, Wes and PT Anderson, Errol Morris, Coppola, Leos Carax, Jean-Pierre Melville, Satoshi Kon. The Sting, The Thin Man series, Cool Hand Luke, Infernal Affairs I, II and III, Wet Hot American Summer, BLADE RUNNER, Jin-roh, Akira, Lost in Translation, Back to School, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby and more!
Homicide, The Wire, Mr. Show, Simpsons, Gilmore Girls, Chappelle Show, Twin Peaks, Carnivale (RIP), Adult Swim, Kids in the Hall, Tenacious D, OZ, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers, AbFab, Deadwood, Entourage, Naruto, South Park, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Monster, Gankutsuou.
Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Haruki Murakami, Oscar motherfuckin' Wilde, Paul Auster, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, Aphra Behn, Herman Melville, Michel Foucault, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, JG Ballard, Martin Amis, Will Self, Kazuo Ishiguro, Neal Stephenson, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Chris Ware, Dan Clowes. Myra Breckinridge, Nightwood, Cane, Kavalier and Clay, Middlesex, Gulliver's Travels, Waterland, Neuromancer, Mumbo Jumbo, Harry Potter