Music, Reading, Pretentiousness, Sleeping, Misery, Cow-tipping, Alcohol, Elitism, Sleeping, Stir-frying, Cheap Red Wine, Postmodernism, Failure, Whiskey, Self-importance, Lethargy, Politics, Pretending to be a Writer, Verbosity, Crypto-zoology, Pantheism, Nihilism, Cheap Beer, Self-loathing, English Muffins, Russian Novels, Seclusion, Falling Asleep While Driving
Ruffians, Ne-er-do-wells, scalliwags, hooligans, naysayers, drunkards, losers, misanthropes, rogues, knaves, fools, cynics, etc.
Currently obsessing over Yes and Anathema but also thoroughly enjoying Saturnus, Monolithe, Primordial, Magma, Wolves in the Throne Room, Van Morrison, Gentle Giant, Gong, Meshuggah, Black Sabbath and Woods of Ypres but other favorites include: Bathory, Dark Tranquillity, Judas Iscariot, Return to Forever, Chick Corea, Edge of Sanity, Woods of Ypres, The Chasm, Possessed, Thelonius Monk, Axis of Advance, Godless North, Eric Johnson, Graveland, Gontyna Kry, Ani DiFranco, Burzum, The Mars Volta, Cynic, Immortal, Iron Maiden, The Beatles, Morbid Angel, Death, Absu, Rush, Mourning Beloveth, Infernal Oak, Emperor, Vader, old Mayhem, King Crimson, Manowar, Insomnium, Amorphis, Anathema, While Heaven Wept, Misery Index, The Gathering, Vehemence, Grand Belial's Key, Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Gordian Knot, Candlemass, Destroyer 666, Primoridial, Old In Flames, Leviathan, At the Drive In, Moonsorrow, Opeth, Weather Report, Miles Davis, Dissection, John Coltrane, Anata, Black Witchery, Darkthrone, Taake, Dawn, Watain, Daylight Dies, Agalloch, Noctuary, Van Morrison, Morgion, Slayer, Evoken, Ulver, Arcturus, Ved Buens Ende, and various others
The Big Lebowski, Fargo, the Evil Dead trilogy, Jacob's Ladder, The Third Man, any succesful Shakespeare adaptation, Monty Python's Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, Office Space, Airheads, Jurassic Park, Take the Money and Run, the Star Wars Trilogy, random Star Trek movies, Being John Malkovitch, Waking Life, and whatever else.
No television here. In the rare moment that I am watching TV, it's usually just a DVD compilation of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Young Ones, Mr. Show, The Ben Stilller show, or whatever else.
Currently reading "The Pint-pulling Olympiad" by Roger Boylan and a collection of short fiction by Ron Currie Jr, also studying works by Flann O’Brien, Jonathan Swift, Martin McDonagh, Edward Said, Fredric Jameson, Anne-Marie Hourihane, Robert Mahony and Terry Eagleton, other favorites include: Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, David Mitchell, Nathaniel Mackey, Italo Calvino, John Milton, Feisal Mohammed, Walter Davis, Christine Brooke-Rose, James Joyce, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Shakespeare, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nick Hornby, Christoper Hitchens, Adrian Kinty, Anton Chekhov, Noam Chomsky, Malcolm McDowell, J.P. Dunleavy, Patrick McCabe, John Fowles, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Campbell, Jean Rhys, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, J.M. Coetze, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, William Blake, David Markson, Kurt Vonnegut, Roald Dahl, Franz Kafka, James Bill, Oscar Wilde Virginia Wolfe, T.S. Eliot, Bernard Lewis, Ezra Pound, Robert Browning, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, A.E. Houseman, William Words-words, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and various others
Larry David, Darren Guccione, Sebastian Dangerfield, Iron Maiden, Red Wallace, Samuel Beckett, Eric Johnson, my mom and Wotan