Music, film, books, and cookies.
Cool and friendly people.
Tom Waits, The Billy Nayer Show, That 1 Guy, Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Queen, Jonathan Richman, Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground, the Beatles, Modest Mouse, Magnetic Fields, Nick Drake, Arcade Fire, Johnny Cash, John Fahey, Iron & Wine, Chris Thile, David Bowie, the Decemberists, Weezer, anything by the Elephant 6 folks, Massive Attack, Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies, the Eels, Papas Fritas, Minutemen, the Replacements, Elliott Smith, Nick Cave, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Michelle Shocked, Bruce Springsteen, Giant Sand, Howe Gelb, Califone, the Cramps, the Beatles, Calexico, Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown, Led Zep, Pavement, April March, Gomez, X, Broken Social Scene, Stars, Gastr del Sol, Feist, Smoke City, Morphine, the Exploding Hearts, Tortoise, the Police, the Hold Steady, Seam, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Hall & Oates!!! and the Mike Glendinning Band!!!
Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Peter Jackson, Wes Anderson, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sam Raimi, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, Stanley Kubrick. Fight Club, Brazil, A Clockwork Orange, Citizen Kane, Die Hard, Punch-Drunk Love, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Audition, Ichi the Killer, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good the Bad the Ugly, Battle Royale, the American Astronaut, Evil Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Finding Nemo, all Monty Python movies.
Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Twin Peaks, Scrubs, Lost, Monty Python's Flying Circus, ER, Food Network.
'Man's Search for Meaning' Viktor Frankl, Joe R. Lansdale, 'Cryptonomicon' Neal Setphenson, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' Michael Chabon, 'Ender's Game' and 'Speaker for the Dead' Orson Scott Card, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Memory Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams
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