talking and not talking, gray areas, analyzing media, breaking stereotypes, delusions of grandeur, reality checks, music that moves me to move, connections, lists that don't have more than nine items ..
my doppelganger. in a well-lit area with a thesaurus.and other people wary of doppelgangers, as well.
Brick, Miracle Mile, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Human Traffic, The Corporation, ALMOST anything by Hitchcock, film noir and its offspring, horror flicks (good and bad), Donnie Darko, Amelie, The Usual Suspects, X-Men 2, Memento, Following, Darkness, Cemetery Man, Rules of Attraction, Dolores Claiborne, Pump Up the Volume, Royal Tennenbaums, Goonies, Gremlins, Professional, Chinatown ..
Lost (see above), Robot Chicken, Six Feet Under, The Daily Show, Frontline, Colbert Report, Bullshit!, Simpsons, Futurama, Buffy, Millennium, Tales of the City, Twin Peaks
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (painfully brilliant!) most things by Chuck Palahniuk, Milan Kundera, Emile Zola, David Sedaris and Irvine Welsh; Lipstick Traces, Reefer Madness, A Prayer for Owen Meany, the Kama Sutra, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know whadda mean? ..
People who cut their own hair well, anyone who knows we're all assholes but realizes we don't have to be such assholes about it, Seth Green, Matt Groening, Michel Gondry, Jon Stewart, creators of the Onion, Wes Anderson, "Monty Python", Gary Larson, Chris Ware, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Donnie Darko (but not Drew Barrymore). ..