Science Comedy !!
music, lyrics, reading, writing, conversation, science, sci-fi, provoking laughter, provoking thought, playing devil's advocate, playing with words, living inside my head, and burritos.
insect photography
(by which, of course, I mean pictures taken by insects - an obscure but growing genre).
Someone who can challenge me in Air Hockey.
Elliott Smith
Wilco/Jeff Tweedy
Old 97's
Magnetic Fields
Morphine
Storm and the Balls
Lucinda Williams
Alejandro Escovedo
M. Ward, They Might Be Giants, early Queen, early Elton, the Beatles, Beulah , XTC, Joan Armatrading, American Music Club, Guided By Voices, Golden Smog, This Mortal Coil, Leonard Cohen, Poi Dog Pondering, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Tenacious D (esp. the stuff they recorded with Sasquatch).
Annie Hall, Blade Runner, Adaptation, Network, Dead Ringers, Shaolin Soccer, Magic, Lost in America, Sex Lies and Videotape, House of Games, Python's The Meaning of Life, Microcosmos, Sin City, the Incredibles, Grosse Pointe Blank, Galaxy Quest ...
Errol Morris
Woody Allen
David Cronenberg
the Coen Brothers
Richard Linklater
Steven Soderbergh....
Los Enchiladas , but I'm biased.
Deadwood, Entourage, Monk, Da Ali G Show, Mr. Show, Freaks and Geeks, Futurama, Action, Home Movies, Lost,
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Richard Brautigan
Philip K. Dick
Kurt Vonnegut
Bizarro
Amusing Ourselves to Death, The Denial of Death, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, The Naked Ape, The Hidden Persuaders, Fast Food Nation, My Cousin My Gastroenterologist, Neuromancer, Ringworld, Nine Princes in Amber, Childhood's End, Devil in the White City, Nick Hornby