Music:
radiohead, queens of the stone age, coldplay, pj harvey, the prosaics, ..and you will know us by trail of dead, thirteen senses, early man, 50 cent, klaxons, muse, nin, travis, belle and sebastian, killers, white stripes, justin timberlake, peaches, dr.dre, yeah yeah yeahs, beck, pulp, scissor sisters, postal service, wolfmother, flaming lips, jeff buckley, the cure, dfa 1979, interpol, rise against, afi, the shins, oasis, bloc party, mia, embrace, stellastar*, snow patrol, folk implosion, the libertines, millionaire, remy zero, secret machines, foo fighters, sufjan stevens, verve, the national, feist, eagles of death metal, the streets, keane, richard ashcroft, angels & airwaves, pete yorn, 9 black alps, raconteurs, mondo generator, she wants revenge, sigur ros, death cab for cutie, my chemical romance, papa roach, maroon 5, weezer...
Television:
entourage, 24, america's next top model, project runway, the shield, scrubs, rescue me, lost, nfl football, ny-1 news, other assorted reality/pop culture crap
Books:
www.gawker.com, www.defamer.com, www.pinkisthenewblog.com, www.stereogum.com, www.goldenfiddle.com, www.nme.com, www.perezhilton.com, www.idolator.com... nick hornby, david sedaris (especially the short stories "holidays on ice" that my friend amie gave me), michael lewis, augusten burroughs, bringing down the house, 100 years of solitude, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, the tipping point, atlas shrugged and the fountainhead (for my brother, from my brother)