politics,history,the theory of evolution, anthropology,reading and absorbing as much information as humanly possible,silliness,libraries,old buildings,rain,felines
The Clash, The Smiths, Elvis Costello, Morrissey, The Pixies, old Sonic Youth,Townes Van Zandt, John Coltrane, Steve Earle, Aimee Mann, Robert Earl Keen, Bauhaus, Jimmy Lafave, Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, Cary Brothers, Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Juan Esquivel, Velvet Underground, Blondie, Talking Heads, Keb'Mo, Reckless Kelly, The Beatles, New Order, Joy Division, John Prine, Nancy Griffith,Guy Clark, old REM, Minutemen, XTC, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, George and Ira Gershwin, Dead Kennedys, Bob Dylan, Peter Murphy, X, They Might Be Giants, Stevie Wonder, Dephece Mode, Flaming Lips, Alejandro Escevedo, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Leo Kotte, Ritchie Havens, Dinosaur Jr, The Ramones The Cure, Patsy Cline, Madness, The Specials, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, cat power, Jeff Buckley, The Replacements, Legendary Pink Dots, Television, Hank Williams III, Jerry Jeff Walker, Nick Drake, The Bravery, Hot Hot Heat, Angie Stone, Mikey Dread, Gorillaz, Amy Miles, Iron and Wine, Elliott Smith, Colin Hay, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Rilo Kiley, Loretta Lynn, Paul Westerberg, Rodney Crowell, Warren Zevon, Meat Beat Manifesto,Jenny Lewis,Jamie Lidell,Old '97's
Amelie, Arsenic and Old Lace, Spellbound(Hitchcock-haven't seen the documentary), Dancer in the Dark, Akira, Lamerica,The Philadelphia Story,Roman Holiday, Monty Python and the Life of Brian,Akira Kurosawa's films,Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums,Cinema Paradiso,The-In Laws(the OG 70's version),The Big One,Smoke Signals, Down in the Delta,The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Sid and Nancy,Man Bites Dog,Smoke,Schindler's List,Grosse Point Blank, Say Anything, High Fidelity,Trainspotting,Sexy Beast,Shaun of the Dead, The Flith and the Fury,Kill Bill,Hero,The House of Flying Daggers,A Hard Day's Night,Before Night Falls,24 Hour Party People,The Dancer Upstairs,Prick Up Your Ears,The Big Lebowski,The Man Who Wasn't There,Sling Blade,Magnolia,The Corporation,Napoleon Dynamite,Taxi Driver,Crooklyn,Dog Day Afternoon,Godfathers I and II,Goodfellas,Kung Fu Hustle,Hotel Rwanda,Million Dollar Baby,The Constant Gardener,The Road to Perdition,Jarhead,A History of Violence,Stalag-17,Catch-22(though it is vastly inferior to the novel),The Bridge on the River Kwai,The Big Sleep,To Have and Have Not,Key Largo,Mr Blandings Builds His Dream Home,Notorious,North By Northwest,Rebecca,Laura,On the Waterfront,Life With Father,Brokeback Mountain,Rent,Munich,The Memory of a Killer(the Alzehemier Case)
Red Dwarf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Wire, The Brittas Empire,Futurama, The Daily Show,Gilmore Girls,Queer Eye, Sports Night,The West Wing, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Homicide: Life On the Street,Seinfeld,Arrested Development,Absolutely Fabulous,Without a Trace,Black Adder,Joan of Arcadia,Everwood,MI-5/Spooks,Veronica Mars,Battlestar Galactica(the new series),Project Runway,Blow Out,Designing Women,All in the Family,Yes Minister,Da Vinci's Inquest,Fawltey Towers,The Office(BBC and US),My Name is Earl,The Colbert Report,Reno 911,Scrubs,Everybody Hates Chris,Coupling(BBC),House MD,30 Rock
Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, June Jordan,Robert Jay Lifton, Walt Whitman, Alice Walker,Julia Alvarez, Irvine Welsh,Douglas Coupland,Harlan Ellison,Ian McEwan,Neil Gaiman,Pablo Neruda,Douglas Adams,Hunter S. Thompson,Nick Horby,David Sedaris,Barbara Kingslover,Francesca Lia Block,Jeffrey Eugenides,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Ana Castillo,Leo Tolstoi,Jonathon Kozol,Molly Ivins,Carl Hiassen,Jorge Luis Borges,Ariel Dorfman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Ana Castillo,Edwidge Danticat,Eduardo Galeano,Catch-22,The Making of the Atomic Bomb,Dead Souls, The Making of the Atomic Bomb,Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
June Jordan,Studs Terkel,My Family