literature, but only the most mind enriching sorts, such as hunting magazines and World of Warcraft manuals snap, crackle, and indie pop writing, or rather typing. internet scrabble normal scrabble, and for that matter, almost any word based game and a great deal of board games chess, internet or not supernintendo, very inclusive of Donkey Kong Country anythingjudiasm french (the language, not the people) french (the people, not the language) french (the adjective, not the noun) french (the noun, not the adjective)english (the language, both spoken and written, and i'll leave it at that) jesus sandals toothpaste for dinner diesel sweeties analogies (the making of, the usage of, the state of being an) hypothetical situations hypothetical situations involving babies tiny animals, animals so tiny they can fit in the palm of your hand tiny humans so tiny they can fit in the palm of your hand tiny but are not babieslambs, chops or not the salvation army, in its new harder-to-steal-from-location (no, i don't steal from the salvation army. if you do, you're going to hell. sorry) screeching, screaming and being generally irritatingsodas, which i will never give up for all the bottled water in the world semicolons in generalapathy and fecklessnesstricksdishonestymanupulationLISTS HEARTSHEARTS and DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION(nah, i'm lying)
THE REAL PIKACHU
Stuart Murdoch
Stephen Colbert
David Bowie
Chuck Palahniuk
M.C. Escher
Sufjan Stevens
Kimya Dawson
Christopher Moore
Michael Ian Black
Amy Sedaris
NEPHEW!
mainly the obnoxiously upbeat indie pop imported straight from Sweden. there are some other things, though...
this is an INCOMPLETE, non-exclusive list
1986 Apples in the StereoArcade FireBand of Horses
Architecture in Helsinki
The Beatles
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN! Ben Folds FIVE The Boy Least Likely to Clem Snide
David Bowie Bright Eyes The Brunettes Built to Spill The Busy World The Caulfield SistersDeath Cab for Cutie The DecemberistsDeerhoof (they're so important) Dressy BessyDestroyerDevendra BanhartElliott Smith The Flaming Lips GrandaddyGrizzly Bear KIMYA DAWSON Iron and WineIslandsJens LekmanThe Magnetic Fields Mates of State Melt-Bananna The Moldy PeachesThe National The New PornographersNEUTRAL MILK HOTELNeu! Of Montreal Oh No! Oh My! Okkervil RiverOld '97sPavementPedro the Lion Peter, Bjorn and John PiebaldThe Polyphonic SpreeThe Postal Service Pulp Rainer MariaThe ShinsSUFJAN STEVENSSUNSET RUBDOWN!The RosebudsThe Unicorns The VaselinesWilco Wolf Parade
Matador and Merge FO' LYFE
Little Miss SunshineUNICO anything Fight Club Donnie DarkoThe Producers (the original, i haven't seen the new one. is it cool? probably not. i don't know, has anyone seen it actually?) Bill and Ted's Excellent AdventureNever Ending Story Office Space Edward Scissorhands
Strangers With Candy Stella (RIP)The Office Arrested DevelopmentThe SimpsonsDa Ali G Show The Oblongs The Fairly OddParentsFuturama The Colbert Report Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
Turgenev, Camus, Palahniuk, Vonnegut, Christopher Moore, David Sedaris... actually, an absurdly long list because i love books.
Amy Sedaris, Jeff Mangum, Kimya Dawson, Stephen Malkmus, Joseph II of Austria