Patton Oswalt, Eddie Izzard, Burning Man, Guinness Draught, Green Bay Packers...
Come down off the cross, we can use the wood.
-- Tom Waits
It's called thieves get rich and saints get shot,
It's called God don't answer prayers a lot.
--Stephen Sondheim
Rolling Stones, Replacements, Dlyan, the Clash, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Springsteen, Polyphonic Spree, Arcade Fire, Bowie, Queen, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Pink Floyd, U2, Secret Machines, Sigur Ros, Dirty Three...
The Lion in Winter, Jaws, Brazil, Local Hero, The Lord of the Rings, Naked, Master and Commander, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fandango, Kevin Smith films, Austin Powers, Magnolia, Oceans' Eleven/Twelve, About a Boy, Love Actually, Shakespeare in Love, Gods and Monsters, Grizzly Man, Breakfast on Pluto, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Children of Men, History Boys, Sunshine, Death Proof (Grindhouse) ...
30 Rock, House, Extras, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Cracker (UK version only), Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Lonesome Dove, Angels in America, The Wire, Deadwood, I Claudius, Daily Show, Colbert Report, The Office (Both UK and US versions), My Name is Earl, Family Guy, House, Scrubs, Boston Legal...
Lonesome Dove, I Claudius, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings, O'Brian's Aubrey and Mautrin series, Homer, Shakespeare, Moby Dick, China Meiville, Warren Ellis, Brian Michael Bendis, James Ellroy, Shelby Foote and Bruce Catron's Civil War histories, Michael Chabon, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Ambrose, Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy, Edward O. Wilson, Larry Brown...