Humor.
anyone with taste and good grammar (bands: I'm not interested in the least).
The Anthology Of American Folk Music by Harry Smith, The Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Love, Scott Walker, Eno, Roxy Music, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bowie, Captain Beefheart, Sonic Youth, PiL, My Bloody Valentine, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, Bjork, Magnetic Fields, Stone Roses, Neutral Milk Hotel, Can, Big Star, The Zombies, The Kinks, Talking Heads, Tindersticks, The Byrds, Pulp, The Pop Group, Elliott Smith, Tim Buckley, Sons And Daughters, Comets On Fire, Six Organs Of Admittance and thus Gary Higgins, Ghost, Antony and The Johnsons, Nina Nastasia, Caetano Veloso and Os Mutantes, Jackson C Frank, Guru Guru, Suede, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson/Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Bert Jansch, Incredible String Band, Joanna Newsom, Born Heller/Josephine Foster, The Wipers, The Damned, Young Marble Giants, The Modern Lovers, Pavement, PJ Harvey, Yo La Tengo, Rolling Stones, The Clash, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Espers, Jim O'Rourke, Dusty Springfield, Dungen, The Slits, Red House Painters, The Shins, The Auteurs, Clinic, TV On The Radio, Neu!, The Birthday Party, Belle and Sebastian, Cabaret Voltaire, Animal Collective, This Mortal Coil, The Breeders, Flying Burrito Brothers, Creedence, Queen, Elton John, anything Chunklet says is overrated.
Woody Allen. Wes Anderson. Charlie Kauffman. Marx Brothers. Some French stuff. Jaws. Harold and Maude. Dr. Strangelove. The Squid and The Whale. City Of God. Anything teen angsty. Documentaries. Mockumentaries. Non-happy endings.
Freaks and Geeks, The Office, Twin Peaks, Cheers, NewsRadio, Pete and Pete, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Chappelle's Show, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Mythbusters, Iron Chef, Good Eats, Project Runway(!!).
I'd love to say that I'm well-read, but that really wouldn't be the truth unless you count music reference sources or Mojo as literature (I do, but I don't speak for everybody). Geek Love was good, though.
Hero of the week: Keith Olbermann. Permanently: My mom. Miles Davis. Lou Reed. George Harrison. Anne Briggs. Woody Allen. Lester Bangs.