Cheap beer, expensive beer, loud rock, college radio, irresponsibility, British Empiricism, Continental Rationalism, ethics, rationality and the emotions, behavioral law and economics, French lit.
Anyone who's fun, whimsical, a daydreamer, or generally impractical. People who don't do what they "should" do.
Phantom Pregnancies, 36 Invisibles, Scissor Girls, Comus, Amon Düül, Thee Headcoatees, Felt, The Orchids, The Bats, Magnetic Fields, LiLiPUT, The Rezillos, Stereolab, Hollywood Brats, Faun Fables, Joanna Newsom, Josef K., Bishop Allen, Freakwater, The Pussycats, CocoRosie, Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan, X-Ray Spex, Aislers Set, The Ex, Nikki Sudden and the Jacobites, Big Star, Sally Timms, Kelly Hogan, Vertonen, David Peel and the Lower East Side, Heavenly, The Softies, The 6ths, Happy Supply, Pylon, Shonen Knife, Puffy Amiyumi, The Yummy Fur, Cub, Le Mans, La Buena Vida, Gram Parsons, Simon Joyner, Cat Power, Girls at Our Best, Espers, 13th Floor Elevators, Future Bible Heroes, Plastic Crimewave Sound, The Dials, The Shapiros, Lake, CoCoComa, Functional Blackouts, Galactic Inmate, the Carter Family, the Louvin Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, Eliane Radigue, Harry Partch, Alvin Lucier, Stereo Total, The Kinks, The Ladybug Transistor, La Monte Young, Antony and the Johnsons, Au Revoir Simone, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle
McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Nashville, Rushmore, Every Man for Himself and God Against All (a.k.a. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser), River's Edge, Grand Illusion, Slacker, The Magick Lantern Cycle, Peking Opera Blues, Idle Hands, House of Flying Daggers, California Split, Dazed and Confused, Army of Darkness, Heathers, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, Tonari no Totoro, Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa, Tenkuu no Shiro Rapyuta, Real Genius, Heathers, Mr. Vampire, Tokyo Monogatari, Ikiru, Kakushe Toride no San Akunin, Tatie Danielle, Paris is Burning, Capturing the Friedmans, My Best Fiend, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr., The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Nomi Song, Darjeeling Limited, pretty much any film by Jan Å vankmajer
Chic-A-Go-Go!, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Project Runway, Buffy (duh), The Office (BBC), The Muppet Show, Veronica Mars, Kids in the Hall, Da Ali G Show, South Park, 30 Rock
The Fortress of Solitude (Jonathan Lethem). The Basic Eight (Daniel Handler), The Hollow Hope (Gerald Rosenberg), Among the Thugs (Bill Buford), Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez), Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss), Histoire de la sexualité: La volonté de savoir(Michel Foucault), Declare (Tim Powers), Please Kill Me (Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain), The Conquest of America (Tzvetan Todorov), The Process is the Punishment (Malcolm Feeley), Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes? (Paul Veyne)
Herbert Simon, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Benedict de Spinoza, Alan Gewirth, John Locke, Bernard E. Harcourt, Gerald Rosenberg, Ganesha