Photography; concept albums; Japanese gardens; writing; social history; preparing care packages; politics; Shiba Inus and most fluffy dogs and cats; obscure pop culture references; album covers; the expression coup de foudre; watershed moments; irony; the new Cribs CD, the bratty charisma of Kanye West; pasty British chanteuses, "Rock 'n' Roll Jesus," as a Christian rock album; etc.
Traveling companions
The White Stripes, Metric, Emily Haines, Bjork, the Smiths, Depeche Mode, Interpol, Radiohead, Blindside, Elliott Smith, Cat Power, Neko Case, BRMC, QOTSA, Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Franz Ferdinand, MBV, Lush, the Who, the Beatles, the Velvet Underground, Kate Bush, the Deftones, the Von Bondies, Giant Drag, the Fucking Champs, Metallica, MCR, Underoath, Roxy Music, the Smashing Pumpkins, AFI, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Jane's Addiction, PJ Harvey, Band of Horses, the Duke Spirit, Midlake, Muse, Comets on Fire, the Blood Brothers, the Music, the Cribs, Bat for Lashes, etc.
Red, Suspiria, Tenebrae, Irma Vep, Ridicule, Le Pacte des Loups, CQ, Storytelling, Talk to Her, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mulholland Drive, Ran, 2046, Alien, Aliens, Coming to America, Adaptation, This is Spinal Tap, The Decline of Western Civilization, Punch-Drunk Love, Equilibrium, Battle Royale, Million Dollar Baby, Annie Hall, the Virgin Suicides, Pan's Labyrinth, Switchblade Sisters, Hot Fuzz, the Tarantino oeuvre: Kill Bill, Grindhouse, Pulp Fiction and the Wahlberg oeuvre: Boogie Nights, I Heart Huckabees, the Departed, etc.
"Law and Order: Criminal Intent," "Flight of the Conchords"
Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Henry Miller, Margaret Atwood, Jerzy Kosinski, Milan Kundera, Emma Donoghue, Herman Hesse, Gustave Flaubert, Dorothy Parker, Italo Calvino, Fay Weldon, Alain de Botton, Haruki Murakami, Laura Esquivel, Nadine Gordimer, etc.