baseball, sarcasm, my girlfriend Kristan, rockin' out, being totally sweet, ninjas, lacing, TNT (well not so much anymore), world domination, boners, clam chowder, chicken wings, concerts, NY Yankees, over-analyzing, Pumpkin Spice Cappuccino, Mt. Fuji Habachi Steakhouse, answering questions with questions, prohibition, over-simplifying, playing the hands i'm dealt, getting Turkish with Bruce Turk, exposing national scandals, doubling down on 11, Yukon Jack, Brando, NOT pirates, pillowfights and ponies, raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, putting all my cards on the table, wheeling and dealing, general mischief and mayhem, Tony Zamboni, the Onion, eating, rablerousing, cashing in my chips, Teen Girl Squad!, carpetbagging, fillibustering, trust-busting, going for all, coming through in the clutch, flying lamprays, leading my band of misfit bikers into sheltered towns to carouse the youth and terrify the 'squares', coffee, cigarettes and vices in general, gambling
getting free pizza pies at the Alligator lounge, murders and executions, riding squirrels like horses, robbing from the rich, giving to the poor, breaking into choreographed song and dance numbers for no reason, striking fear in people's hearts, excavating fossils, pillowfighting while on ponies (if at all possible.)
I HEART +
Rowsdower!!!!
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...and yeah, these guys too...
Dave Matthews Band, The Beatles, The Police, Genesis, Rush, Minus the Bear, Damien Rice, Bright Eyes, Green Day, R.E.M., U2, Yes, Dance Hall Crashers, Bad Religion, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Nas, Biggie, Kanye West, The Rolling Stones, A.F.I., the Descendents, ALL. ...yeah, that seems good for about now.
There are many more, but here's the essential list (oh, and if you have never heard of or have never seen these movies, then pretty much you don't deserve to live)
The Godfather
Raging Bull
The Deer Hunter
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Halloween
Goodfellas
Midnight Cowboy
American Beauty
The Departed
Do The Right Thing
Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction
The Godfather Part II
Vertigo
Apocalypse Now
Borat
Rocky
Dog Day Afternoon
Terror Firmer (!)
Platoon
A Streetcar Named Desire
Rashomon
The Illusionist
Close Encounters Of the Third Kind
Full Metal Jacket
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Swingers
Requiem For A Dream
Memento
Ran
Superman: The Movie
The Empire Strikes Back
Night Of the Living Dead
Sideways
Amadeus
The Warriors
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Seven Samurai
The Usual Suspects
On The Waterfront
Kill Bill
That home movie of me at Christmas when I was little and fell into my hot wheels race track and hurt myself
Zoolander
The Steve Thompson Piebald Dance Party!
Scarface
Dawn Of the Dead (1978)
Clerks
Superman II
Chasing Amy
The Rise and Fall of Bruce Turk (A Story of Fame, Fortune, and a SERIOUS mustache)
Reservior Dogs
Straw Dogs
North By Northwest
Ghostbusters
Super Troopers
Network
A Clockwork Orange
Serpico
Back To The Future
Pillowfights and Ponies 2: Electric Bugaloo
Friday the 13th
The Muppets Take Manhattan
American Psycho
Mystic River
Once Upon a Time In America
Almost Famous
Bonnie and Clyde
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
The Karate Kid
Mean Streets
Poltergeist
Pillowfights and Ponies: The Movie
The Sopranos, Rome, Six Feet Under, Mad Men, Nip/Tuck, The X-Files, Carnivale, Dexter, The Riches, Big Love, House.
Frasier, Arrested Development,Mystery Science Theater 3000, Weeds, The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Entourage.
The YES Network, Mike and the Mad Dog, Yankeeography, Baseball Tonight.
There are actually a surprisingly high number of quality shows on television right now, even though you'd never know it by the overwhelming amount of shit that is also being watched.
Notes From Underground, Catcher in the Rye, Heart of Darkness, anything by Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, The Things They Carried, The Satyricon, Walden, Sporting News Baseball Register, The Sopranos and Philosophy, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, short stroy collections, American Psycho, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, the Art of War, The Scarlet Letter.
Predominantly Frasier and Niles Crane
but also...
Donnie F'in Baseball
Paul O'Neill
Steve Nash
Derek Jeter
David Cone