vacationing; literature; movies with witty, overblown dialogue; holdem and spades; vice magazine; crossword puzzles; live music; talking massive amounts of shit with my friends; singing cheesy songs at karaoke; drinking in divey bars; hole in the wall eateries; listening to intelligent hip hop; dancing to really bad hip hop; procrastinating; discovering great music to download into my ipod; quirky people; crazy people; people who are nothing like me; waxing philosophy; living LTTF; and just plain trying to be a good person.
Muse, The Shins, Keane, Brendan Benson, Portishead, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Built to Spill, Belly, Jeff Buckley, Esthero, Tori, Modest Mouse, Scissor Sisters, The Cardigans, Arcade Fire, Elbow, Air, MIA, OMD, Morcheeba, the Strokes, Interpol, Grandaddy, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Clap Your Hands, Kings of Leon, Travis, Snowden, Erasure, New Order, Junior Boys, Of Montreal, The French Kicks, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, The Cure, The Killers, The Streets, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, The Fratellis, The Radio Dept, Hieroglyphics, Gangstarr, Jurassic 5, Immortal Technique, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, Rakim, Slick Rick, MF Doom, Necro, Dilated Peoples, Binary Star, Wu, Jedi Mind Tricks, Blackalicious, Eminem.
Heathers, The Sound of Music, Reality Bites, Say Anything, Office Space, Amadeus, Ghost World, Good Will Hunting, Defending Your Life, Wet Hot American Summer, The Dreamers, Eternal Sunshine, Me, You and Everyone We Know, Palindromes, Little Miss Sunshine, Psycho Beach Party, anything Chanwook Park, Wong Kar Wai
Family Guy, Newsradio, The King of Queens, True Life, The Food Network, Globe Trekker, the Office, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Intervention, Campus Ladies, How i Met your mother, Anthony Bourdain
I Know This Much is True, Youth in Revolt, Kitchen (and everything else by Banana Yoshimoto), Ishmael, The Celestine Prophecy, Geek Love, Heat, Roald Dahl, anything David Sedaris, James Baldwin, Augusten Burroughs (guess i have a small thing for gay lit)