Music, playing drums and guitar, food, cooking, yoga, films, reading, making fun of Republicans.
Smart, cool people that don't have to prove that they are. Or Freddie Mercury.
KISS, Sabbath, Queen, New Order, The Cure, The Smiths, The Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers, Joseph Arthur, The Clash, Blondie, Tom Waits, Ramones, Arnold, David Bowie, Prince, Stars, Ed Harcourt, Foo Fighters, The Clientele, Misfits, Damien Rice, The Cult, The Hellacopters, The Crimea, Doves, Curtis Mayfield, Dead Boys, Chet Baker, Jellyfish, ELO, The Jam, My Morning Jacket
Willie Wonka, Blazing Saddles, Fletch (yes, Fletch), Run Lola Run, The Ring, City of Lost Children, Young Frankenstein, Abre los Ojos, Evil Dead 2, Big Fish, Sante Sangre, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, Napoleon Dynamite
The Young Ones, The Office (UK), Da Ali G Show, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, The Daily Show - that's about it.
Geek Love, A Confederacy of Dunces, Catcher in the Rye, Fast Food Nation, Where the Wild Things Are and anything by Salman Rushdie, Hunter S. Thompson, Edgar Allen Poe, Jim Knipfel and Charles Bukowski.
Mom, Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Greg Dulli, My friend Nikki in Taiwan, Chef Elliott Prag in NYC, Dr. Brian Levack at UT Austin, and Spiderman.