food, soccer, poker, photography, ny times crosswords, media, music, tv, movies, politics, orange, massages, karaoke, long walks, longer bike rides, traveling, darts, spades, skeeball, air hockey, scattergories (ok, i pretty much love all games), sour punch straws, roller coasters, fashion, drug policy, thumb wrestling, good conversation
nice people.
new pornographers, kleptones, sloan, wilco, de la soul, esthero, BRUCE, morcheeba, stevie wonder, decemberists, weezer, postal service, laura thomas band, roots, essex green, camera obscura, ozomatli, fountains of wayne, rolling stones, beatles, lizzie west, bjork, jurassic 5, liz phair (older stuff), spooks, tribe called quest, flashing lights, old '97s, capitol years, aimee mann, patti scialfa, neko case, sheryl crow, prince, danger mouse, old black eyed peas, no doubt, brand new heavies, tea leaf green, kelly clarkson, pharcyde, green day, nightmares on wax, eminem, state radio, ani, sara evans, alison kraus, lucinda williams, chaka khan, kc and the sunshine band, chic, beastie boys, scissor sisters, modest mouse, daft punk, beck, le firm, kylie minogue (circa saw), en vogue, replacements, shelby lynn, refreshments, roger clyne and the peacemakers, martika (whatever happened to her???), erasure, jackson 5 and old michael jackson, badly drawn boy, 80s/90s freestyle, new jack swing, some female country and lastly most everything jon oliver plays on thursday nights at mdm x. i am a SUCKER for a good hook.
office space, you can count on me, celebration, american beauty, old school, secretary, elf, finding nemo, city of god, the closet, history of violence, rosemary's baby, metropolis, south park, bad santa, fargo, silence of the lambs, dazed and confused, war room, pink flamingos, best in show, the last supper, memento, prestige
THE WIRE is the best. show. ever. veronica mars, heroes, lost, office, 30 rock, 24, daily show, colbert report, weeds, ugly betty, l word, men in trees, life on mars, friday night lights, house, bsg, csi, world poker tour, wsop, iron chefRIP-arrested development, freaks and geeks, wonderfalls, carnivale, deadwood
cryptonomicon, by neal stephenson; secret history, by donna tartt; prayer for owen meany, by john irving; wind-up bird chronicle, by haruki murakami; santaland diaries (ok, it's a story, but it's hilarious), by david sedaris; lonesome dove, by larry mcmurtry; gold coast, by nelson demille (actually i love anything by him except for his last book which i thought sucked. great plane reading); empire falls, by richard russo; eyre affair, by jasper fforde; sophie's world, by jostein gaarder; amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, by michael chabon
paul wellstone, jon stewart, john waters, chuck close, helen thomas