knowing being half the battle, pandas, jack daniels, mockery, ridicule, eating, things that have cinnamon in them, sports, kohatred, KQB-ing, fried mac and cheese, cartoons, self-pity, self-aggrandizing, thesauri, flip-flops, playlists, wine, macs, politics, reading, burrito'clock, finding new ways to be pretentious, beer.
and the ad genius behind this:
oh wait, that was me.
in a more thought out, but still not very particular order: decemberists, death cab, styrofoam, kings of convenience, stars, doves, flaming lips, elbow, prefuse 73, peter bjorn and john, the good the bad and the queen, editors, the swell season, rufus wainwright, ben harper, the books, magnetic fields, clap your hands say yeah, the boy least likely to, mates of state, sufjan stevens, album leaf, the clientele, engineers, ratatat, matt pond PA, nick drake, elliott smith, jon brion, massive attack, dntel, animal collective, damien rice, the indigo girls, wilco, petty, clapton, shins, the go find, ella fitzgerald, royksopp, architecture in helsinki, sigur ros, mazarin, handsome boy, gnarls barkley, zero 7, postal service, rilo kiley, max weinberg and the max weinberg 7, hot hot heat, thievery corp, spoon, beck, journey, reo speedwagon, and all the great hair bands.
donnie darko: director's cut, i heart huckabees, eternal sunshine, office space, big fish, top gun, once, juno, knocked up, old school, blues brothers, adaptation, closer, sideways, the life aquatic, garden state, an inconvenient truth, saved!, about schmidt, wedding crashers, 40-yr-old virgin, me and you and everyone we know, the aristocrats, dodgeball, mr. smith goes to washington
pandacam, dexter, project runway, flavor of love, charm school, the world series of pop culture, six feet under, best week ever, the daily show, big love, carnivale, the colbert report, no reservations with anthony bourdain, the dog whisperer, real time with bill maher, aqua teens, powerpuffs, family guy, law and order [ SVU and the classic ones with jerry orbach ], scrubs, football, iron chef, robot chicken, the golden girls, the price is right [ with bob barker ], da ali g show, jeopardy!, CONAN [ my perfect man ]
pride and prejudice, picture of dorian gray, AHWOSG, confederacy of dunces, catch-22, le petit prince, harry potter, sex drugs and cocoa puffs, chuck klosterman IV, killing yourself to live, cesar's way, lady windermere's fan, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, the world is flat. plus the washington post is like porn to me, i can never stop looking at it. also, this past year i've done nothing but audiobooks. some consider that cheating. i am not one of them.
conan o'brien, colin meloy, ben gibbard, oscar wilde, my momma, donovan mcnabb, katharine graham, thomas friedman, tom brokaw, bill clinton, al gore, jim boeheim, joe gibbs, masaharu morimoto, jon stewart, stephen colbert, lewis black, al franken, and squidward