Snark, stuff and/or things, chillin' on the subway, staring into space, rabble-rousing, wandering, making things complicated, pretending to know what the hell I'm talking about, not knowing what the hell I'm talking about, talking for hours with nothing to say, painting, thinking about painting, dreaming of futons, overheardinnewyork.com, not working, making loud noises at non-loud noise moments, talking about giving the man the finger and going to graduate school, writing papers about dorky things like literary criticism, coffee and coffee related products, sunshine and sunshine related products, kicking ass and taking names, running barefoot through wet grass, my deaf kitty, ruining my hearing with loud music, going to shows where said loud music is played, talking about inappropriate subjects at dinner, smoking cancer sticks, referring to cigarettes as "cancer sticks", drinking booze, your mom, my mom
The usual cast of characters, you know, ragamuffins, ne'er-do-wells and hooligans. And did I mention Keith Richards? Yeah, him too.
The Clash, The Smiths/Morrissey, David Bowie, Belle and Sebastian, Pulp, Television, Gang of Four, Guided By Voices, The Stones, The Cure, Joy Division/New Order, The Chameleons, Orange Juice, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, JaMC, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Pavement, Radiohead, Pixies, Interpol, Ratatat, Blonde Redhead, David Kitt, The Faint, The Knife, The Unicorns, Islands, Electrelane, Of Montreal, Animal Collective/Panda Bear, The Thermals, The Go! Team, Portishead, The Flaming Lips, Spoon, The Decemberists, Le Tigre, Ladytron, Art Brut, Girl Talk, Hot Chip, The Rapture, DFA 1979, Be Your Own Pet, The Pipettes, Beirut, DeVotchKa, Arcade Fire, Yo La Tengo
Harold and Maude, Fight Club, Amelie, Annie Hall, Ghost World, Charade, How to Steal a Million, The (Original) Producers, Office Space, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Working Girl, The Graduate, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Run Lola Run, Labyrinth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Secretary, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver, The Royal Tennebaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Kicking and Screaming (the indie, not the Ferrell), The Last Days of Disco
The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Fawlty Towers, The Prisoner, L+O: CI (SVU makes me feel like a big fat perv nowadays), Nip/Tuck, ATHF, Home Movies, old episodes of Aeon Flux that are on at 4 in the morning, documentaries about serious shit, random mindless programming on MTV, more random mindless programming on MTV, Family Guy, and even though no one agrees with me, American Dad
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Rip It Up and Start Again, Franny and Zoe, The Catcher in the Rye, The Crying of Lot 49, V., The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Americana, White Noise, Underworld, Please Kill Me, Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, If on a winter's night a traveler, Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, In Cold Blood, We, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Lolita, Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters, Still Life With Woodpecker, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Wild Ducks Flying Backward
All of my heroes are professional table tennis players