music, gambling, politics, having so much work to do that I can't do normal stuff like eating and sleeping, running moonshine across state lines, preachin' a little bible, archery, wizardry, lycanthropy, swordplay, subtle humor, promoting the spread of dark, melancholy music, and bringing pure evil to a town near you
Alice in Chains, Megadeth, Tool, System of a Down, Mindless Self Indulgence, Monster Magnet, GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, Queens of the Stone Age, Felix Sarco, Misfits, Nirvana, Queensryche, Perfect Circle, AFI, Lacuna Coil, Agent Orange, Tub Ring, Veruca Salt, L7, Local H, Smithereens, Eric Burdon and The Animals, Yardbirds, Hollies, Smashing Pumpkins, PJ Harvey, Social Distortion, the various and sundry works of Mike Patton and Lester Claypool, and of course, the spoken word albums of William Shatner
American Beauty, Unforgiven, Platoon, The Crow, Office Space, Braveheart, Eight Men Out, American History X, Requiem for a Dream, Bowling for Columbine, Enemy at the Gates, Rounders, Boiler Room, Friday, Bull Durham, Boondock Saints, Godfather I and II, One Hour Photo, Polish Wedding (one of the few movies about Americans of Eastern European ancestry), Requiem for a Heavyweight, Doctor Zhivago
X-files, Seinfeld, The Contender, American Dreams, just about any of the new dramas on FX
Revolt of the Masses, Beyond Good and Evil, The German Ideology, Animal Farm, Doctor Zhivago, The Brothers Karamazov, The Elegant Universe, Nicomachean Ethics, Heavier than Heaven, The Bush-Hater's Handbook, Quo Vadis, Socrates' Apology, 1984, the poetry of John Donne