Controversy, Intelligent conversation, philosophy, skiing, reading, and big red buttons!
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Dagny Taggart.
Smashing Pumpkings, Pedro the Lion, A Perfect Circle, Postal Service, Mae, Tool, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Ani Difranco(shutup), Thursday, Age of Ruin, Dashboard Confessional(even tho he sold out), Coheed and Cambria, Saves the Day, Dismemberment Plan, Damien Rice, Zwan, DMB, Sigur Ros, Air, and lots more...
What Dreams May Come, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Matrix(I, II, and III), Office Space, Kill Bill, Pi, American Beauty, Hackers, Boondock Saints, Empire Records, Paycheck, Anything Kubric or Tarantino, some other great ones i'm missing...
I watch as little TV as I can.
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The Deptford Trilogy, The Art of Deception, Cukoos egg, Cat's Cradle, The Mezzanine, Chaos, 1984, Beyond Good and Evil, White Noise, anything thought provoking basically...
John Galt, Dagny Taggart, Howard Roark, Hank Rearden, Spiderman.