coffee, writing, free .. stalking, 4am, entropy, art/art history, pathophysiology, French things, attempting to play the guitar, late nights, cereal (Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, Boo Berry, etc.), chai, Poland Spring water, letters, satire, hypocrisy, europe, summer nights, blasphemy, thai food, science, religion, latex, drugs, snotty restaurants, gravity, ethanol, candles and light bulbs, slogans, muffins and scones, harpsichords, tofu, feta, unecessarily loud music, the ocean, nociception, psychopathology, architecture, ties, hummus, ice cubes, beaches, taking chances, listening to other people's conversations, headphones, public transportation, the future, sarcasm, mockery, nutella, calendars, so it goes...
people who can carry a conversation or a tune
Cursive, Bright Eyes, The Postal Service, Deathcab for Cutie, Reggie and the Full Effect, Thursday, Weezer, Saves the Day, Further Seems Forever,Tool, Marilyn Manson, Third Eye Blind, Nine Inch Nails, Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World,Kevin Devine, James Taylor, Travis, and many more...currently in a musical quandary.
Donnie Darko, Les Trois Couleurs, A Clockwork Orange, Kids, Interview with the Vampire, Lost in Translation, Garden State, American Beauty, 2001: A Space Odyssey, La Cite des Enfants Perdu, Eyes Wide Shut, Lolita, The Crow, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Schindler's List, I Heart Huckabees, Nosferatu, The Shining, Jaws, Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Land Before Time, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Dr. Strangelove, Se7en, etc.
Kill your TV (kill your god)
The Stranger, The Divine Comedy (although Paradiso sucks and you know it), American Psycho, Chuck Palahniuk (Choke, Diary, Lullaby, and yes, Fight Club), Interview with the Vampire, Don Quixote, The Shining, Faust, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Great Gatsby, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, Schindler's List, 1984, No Exit, Slaughter House Five, Night, Slake's Limbo, Everything is Illuminated and the like
Bill Nye the Science Guy, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Michelangelo, Narcissus, the Marquis de Sade