berlin, dancing like epilepsy, dutch architecture, ethiopian food, flights of fancy, foreign affairs, german beer, haight, hot boy nerds, hysterical realism, indian food, intellectual whimsy, international politics, irony, jay gatz, kitsch, köstritzer schwarzbier, lamp, magical realism, mcsweeney's, misanthropy, nightswimming, peanut butter, political economy, prenzlauer berg, prosody, psycholinguistics, punnet squares, san francisco, scarves, skateboarding (see irony), the filmic masterpieces of todd solondz, think tanks, underwear wrestling, wearing an attitude of Bring It On whatever It may be
stereolab, air, sufjan, daft punk, joanna newsom, girl talk, hidden cameras, steve reich, cornelius, bubblicious cotton-candy pop
David Lynch, Wes Andersen, Agnes Varda, Claire Denis, Pedro Almodóvar, and Todd Solondz's entire ouvres
Twin Peaks
Marcel fucking Proust.
Zaha Hadid