People who want to get drunk and talk about their English teachers. People who are really funny, magnetic social animals but have secret self-esteem issues that give them depth. People who can get me tickets to sold-out shows. Leelee Sobieski.
Atmosphere, AC/DC, Blackalicious, Interpol, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Ambulance LTD, Pearl Jam, 50 Cent, Fleetwood Mac, Jurassic 5, Lyrics Born, DJ Shadow, We Are Scientists, Spoon, The Notorious B.I.G., The Band, Massive Attack, New Order.
Little Miss Sunshine, Brick, Glengarry Glen Ross, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Collateral, Heat, Traffic, Out of Sight, Memento, Chinatown, Lawrence of Arabia, Spartan, Croupier, The Wild Bunch, Bottle Rocket, House of Games, North by Northwest, The Third Man, Henry V, The Thin Man, Casablanca, Double Indemnity, The Conversation, Miller's Crossing, His Girl Friday, All About Eve, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Man For All Seasons, Zero Effect, The Hustler, The Philadelphia Story, The Color of Money, Man on Fire, Once Upon A Time in the West, Glory, Notorious, Reversal of Fortune, Insomnia, Gangs of New York, Rushmore, The Long Good Friday
Hustle, Arrested Development, The Office (American or British; they're both outstanding), 24, The Shield, Penn and Teller's Bullsh!t, I Claudius, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, House of Cards
The Glass Key (Dashiell Hammett), Lord of Light (Roger Zelazny), V for Vendetta (Alan Moore), The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler), The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas), Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson), Scaramouche (Rafael Sabatini), I Claudius / Claudius the God (Robert Graves), Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco), A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John LeCarre), Hyperion (Dan Simmons), Moneyball (Michael Lewis), This Perfect Day (Ira Levin), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Declare (Tim Powers), Collected Fiction (Jorge Luis Borges)
People who make lots of money. People who get arrested.