Being able to eat. As in affording to. Using my mutant abilities to absorb any form of art like a sponge. Oh yeah, curing cancer would probably be a good hobby, too.
In no particular order: Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Quasi, DJ Shadow, D-Styles, DJ Q-Bert, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Carl Ives, Esquivel, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cat Power, Louis Armstrong, Dan the Automator, Le Tigre, Portishead, Ladytron, Stereolab, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Johnny Cash, Blur, Rilo Kiley, the White Stripes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead, Run DMC, that dog, Dan the Automator, Kathleen Edwards, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, J5, Led Zeppelin, Gene Krupa, Bjork, Kool Keith, Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, the Cure, the Who, Public Enemy, Charlie Parker, Mount Sims, Outkast, Kool Keith, NWA, Jay-Z, Jawbreaker, and a whole lot more than I can remember. And lastly, my favorite band of all is Sleater-Kinney. Anyone who knows me knows that already, but needless to say, they're the only band that I've almost died trying to see. And I say that with pride.
Way Too Many To Choose, but here's 4 that I'd keep if every other movie ever filmed was destroyed by a big-ass meteor: 1) Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 2) It's A Wonderful Life 3) Escape from New York 4) Out of Sight...oh, and of course these:
Yes, I watch TV. Sorry, but I gotta do something with these rabbit-ears! Here's are the current rulers of my world: Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Smallville, Veronica Mars, the Shield, 24, Rescue Me, Heroes, Family Guy, Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the Daily Show and my list of lamented finished shows that live on in DVD form: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, the Office, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Adventures of Pete & Pete, Strangers With Candy, Chappelle's Show, the Batman/Superman Adventures, SG:CTC, Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, UCB.
Choke & Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk, Crash & the Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, My Dark Places & the Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, the Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Botchan by Natsume Soseki. And the comics, either Y: The Last Man or Runaways by Brian K. Vaughn, the Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Sleeper by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, any comics by Adrian Tomine & the Sentry by Paul Jenkins & Jae Lee.
Max Fischer, Rushmore Yankee (1985-1997) Ampersand, the helper monkey (and Yorick, the non-monkey).