My obsession with really BAD new country, uber-cool dykes, bingo at Indian gaming resorts, evolutionary biology and phylogenetic systematics, anything twee, clogging kitchen sinks, loosing my balance while being completely sober, gewurztraminer, pupusas, really cheesy pop culture schlock, sociology and philosophy, reading the almanac, abbreviating words, B- and C-list celebrities, playing Boggle, driving around in my dented car, guys with horn-rim glasses, procrastinating, mid-century modern, power-walking, being an insufferable nerd
Non-assholes.
Midlake, The National, Band of Horses, Iron & Wine, Camera Obscura, Neko Case, Jenny Lewis/Rilo Kiley, The Razorcuts, McCarthy, Felt, Broken Social Scene, The Fall, Ride, Destroyer, The Pastels, The Magnetic Fields, The Zombies, The Byrds, The Hollies, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Love, Chaka Khan and Rufus, Prince, Asha Bhosle, Super Furry Animals, The Carter Family, The Beatles, Sly and the Family Stone, Orange Juice, Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Donovan, My Bloody Valentine, Futureheads, The Clientelle, The Lucksmiths, The Aislers Set, Stereolab, The Velvet Underground, Stereo Total, Os Mutantes, The Smiths, Francoise Hardy, Teenage Fan Club, most anything on Creation records, early 90s American indie (old Superchunk and old Pavement, Guided By Voices etc...), and of course lots of other BS: indie (especially syrupy jangly sugar sweet indie pop), shoegazer, "brit-rock", early punk, post-punk, proto-punk, 80s pop, old country and folk, 60s-70s-80s soul and r&b, 60s garage pop and psych
Billy Liar, Ratcatcher, Teen Witch, Walkabout, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Mi Vida Loca: My Crazy Life, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, Krush Groove, Coffy, Desperate Teenage Love Dolls, Mamma Roma, the Decalogue, Female Trouble, Tokyo Story, Contempt, The 400 Blows, Picnic at Hanging Rock, A Woman is a Woman, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Serial Mom, Polyester, Blow Up, Breaking the Waves, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Ilsa-Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, Showgirls, Ghost World, Band of Outsiders, Il Posto, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Red, Pauline et Paulette, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Just One of the Guys, The Seven Samurai, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters, Punch-Drunk Love
The Mighty Boosh, Paula's Home Cookin', Degrassi: the Next Generation, Spaced, 227, Jeeves and Wooster, California's Gold, The L Word, What's Happening, Starting Over, All TBN Shows especially those with Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyers, and the Crouches, The Price is Right, The Golden Girls.
The Left Hand of Darkness, Rabbit Run, The Cave, Disgrace, In Cold Blood, Handful of Dust, A Fine Balance, Germinal, Phillip K. Dick novels, Absolute Beginners, the Earthsea books, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Mansfield Park, Wise Blood, The Day of the Locust, H. P. Lovecraft stories, As I Lay Dying, Midnight's Children, Lucky Jim, A House for Mr. Biswas, Swann's Way, City of Night, Of Human Bondage, The Woman in White, Possession
Tomoko Ohta, John Waters, Ursula K. LeGuin, the "Abogados" guy on the back of buses, Truman Capote, Paula Deen, Huell Howser, Russ Meyers, Eugene V. Debs, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Luc Godard, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, George Gaylord Simpson