Fine cocktails and other high-end booze: 1900-present Furniture and design: 1950-1965 Visual art: 1890-1930 Media and technology: 1993-present Talking to people about their lives: 1970 - present International politics: 1900-present Architecture: 1920-1940 Orchestral Music and Opera: 1850-1920. And pork products. Nothing beats bacon.
Sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, and dickheads. Those who fetishize mid-century teak and/or rosewood furniture. People with interesting hair. Old souls. Charles and/or Ray Eames.And NO UNSOLICITED FRIEND REQUESTS FROM CRAPPY BANDS I'VE NEVER HEARD OF. Girlfriend, please. It's so tacky.
Kraftwerk Pavement Husker Du Marvin Gaye JS Bach R Wagner D Shostakovich A Copland Metallica The Knife Misfits Waylon Jennings Dolly Parton Prince Sonic Youth Willie Nelson Cole Porter Penguin Cafe Orchestra Bruce Springsteen Stereolab CSS Slayer Nina Simone Fischerspooner Devo Rush Joao Gilberto Postal Service Barry White Journey Cardigans My Bloody Valentine Pixies Mahler Barry Manilow! Dead Kennedys Esquivel Pizzicato Five Gershwin Tenacious D Depeche Mode Charles Mingus Burt Bacharach Herbie Hancock Miss Kittin Chet Baker Velvet Underground New Order Yeah Yeah Yeahs Regina Spektor Adult. B-52s Peaches Duke Ellington. You get the idea.
Sunset Boulevard Night of the Hunter Aliens All About Eve Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Exorcist Annie Hall Blade Runner Napoleon Dynamite Spirited Away Double Indemnity Manhattan Casablanca M The Manchurian Candidate High Noon The Day the Earth Stood Still. And Galaxy of Terror. Man, that ruled.
Seinfeld The Larry Sanders Show Twin Peaks Simpsons Dave Chappelle Show X-Files Firefly Family Guy My Name is Earl Curb Your Enthusiasm Lost South Park Sex and the City. Isn't TV so great?
HP Lovecraft. Fitzgerald. Poe. Roth. Delillo. PK Dick. Nabokov. Ballard. Tolkien. Houellebecq. And so on and so forth.