Music:
god, it's about time i edit this, 1 year later.... my passions are fuckin random....TOM WAITS, cursive, velvet underground, billie holiday, cash, suicidal, bowie, social d, nick cave, pixies, jeff buckley, portishead, tsol, buck 65, morcheeba, esthero, sinatra, coil, etta james, christian death, clooney, peggy lee, bessie smith, birthday party, mars volta, alberta hunter, buddy guy, outkast, misfits, sly, this mortal coil, bad brains, operation ivy, notwist, yeah yeah yeahs, joy division, dresden dolls, x, my morning jacket etc....
Movies:
so, so many... harold and maude, taxi driver, buffalo 66, gummo, anything mel brooks, fight club, city of lost children, princess and the warrior, lola, who's afraid of virginia woolf, donnie darko, down by law and most things by jarmusch... yeah i did like coffee and cigarettes, anything taken from a tennessee williams play, esp. night of the iguana, anything tim burton or david lynch of course...also richard kern, ingmar bergman, jan svankmajer...
Television:
basically as juvenille as you can get...simpsons, family guy, futurama (hey baby, wanna kill all humans?)
Books:
have always been and will always be my life... bukowski, camus, tennesee williams, frederick exley, nabokov, nin, dorothy allison, hunter s, "notes from underground"... just read "jesus'son" (thanks matt)...now reading "fight club" (thanks darlin)...not to mention the endless stream of dorky non-fiction, social commentary crap that i can't resist.
Heroes:
my mom.... for always being able to smile and use humor to get through those TRUELY dark and brooding things in life...