Music of all sorts; Playing records; Production and music software/hardware; Poetry and prose; Academic writing; Stand-up comedy; learning Japanese; Film/Cinema; Kung-fu movies; Animation; Promotions; Poker; Arguing; Food and dining; Cosby sweaters; Pistachio ice cream; Tekken; Rocking in general
Anyone into rocking so hard that they break into uncontrollable spasms of bodily flailing and hair thrashery. If interested in such an activity, let me know. We can rock together. It will be elite.
A lil' sum' sum': LCD Soundsystem, Kiko and Stephane Deschezeaux, DJ Hell, Pascal FEOS, Murs, Oliver Dodd, Miss Kittin, Q and not U, DMX Krew, Cepia, The Pretenders, The Zombies, Mclusky, Hella, Spoon, The Kills, Ada, Matthew Dear, Madvillain, Dangerdoom, Anders Trentemoeller, David Bowie, Harry Nielsson, Cari Lekebusch, The Wedding Present, Cinerama, M83, T. Rex, The Decemberists, Missy Elliott, Tiefschwartz, PINE*am, Giorgio Moroder, An Albatross, RJD2, T. Raumschmiere, The Holy Ghost, Talib Kweli, Death from Above 1979, Dusty Springfield, The Magic Numbers, Explosions in the Sky, Deltron 3030, Heiroglyphics, Modeselektor, Chops, Otis Redding, Cap'n Jazz, Thunderbirds Are Now!, The Juan Maclean, Stars, Lindstrom, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Antony and the Johnsons, Diplo, Ghostface, Quasimoto, Rex the Dog, Clor, The Knife, We Are Scientists, Baumer, Deerhoof, Mylo, Tommie Sunshine, Little Brother, Islands, Unicorns, Sam Cooke, The Go! Team, Band of Horses, iForward Russia!, Annie, Headphones, Lostep, Jamie Lidell, Candy Bars, Evangelicals, Asobi Seksu, Annuals, Girl Talk, The Sleepy Jackson and a whole lot more...
The Big Lebowski is one of the greatest movies of all time, Brick, Following, Pi, Bamboozled, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Freshest Kids, Scratch, Kill Bill (both volumes are awesome), American Splendor, The Corporation, The Professional (I like Besson), Control Room, Napoleon Dynamite, Fallen Angels, Ong Bak, Borat, Hard Boiled, God of Gamblers, Fight Club, Memento, Marvin Goes to Dinner, Shaun of the Dead, The Evil Dead Series, Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2, Drunken Master, Six String Samurai, Hero, Lady Snowblood, Audition, Gozu (anything by Takashi Miike), Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed (I also like Scorsese), Battle Royale, Sin City, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Matchpoint, Oldboy, Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow is the man), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Maestro, Clerks, Mallrats, Billy Madison, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong (really, who doesn't like PJ?), and one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blues Brothers.
The Simpsons, Family Guy, Last Comic Standing (actually, any type of stand-up comedy special), Daily Show, Da Ali G Show, ALL of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, Saturday Night Live (well, the old ones, at least), South Park, The Office (US and UK), Arrested Development, Mr. Show, The Colbert Report, Little Britain, Wonder Showzen, professional Poker games, and Ultimate Fighting w/ the roomies. Oh, and lots of Anime. Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo have got to be two of the best series ever. Right now, I'm also watching a LOT of Bleach, which is super-awesome.
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut; Survivor, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke - Palahniuk (I really want to read Haunted); Dune Series - Herbert; Clockwork Orange, One Hand Clapping - Burgess; Trainspotting, Glue, Maribou Stork Nightmares - Welsh; Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties - Gibson; Neverwhere - Gaiman; LOTR, Hobbit, Silmarillion - Tolkien; Please Kill Me - McNeil & Co.; Mythologies - Barthes; Noise - Attali, Dark Tower Series - King
"The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction." - Hugh Mcleod