wombats, Boggle, poutine, bagpipes, cheese, music, Scrabble, music snobbery, skipping rocks, foreign languages, yard sales, singing, musique non-stop, undersea creatures, fishing boats, oceans, rivers, streams, brooks, onomastics, words, word puzzles, Keytars, pointless road trips, my obese cat, My other cat, bad movies, plaid, good movies, theramins, pomegranates, garbage and its artistic properties, curling, marsupials, power failures, playing the bass, playing the recorder and crumhorn, making cheesy electronic music on my ancient computer, stopping by the woods on a snowy evening
Oh, and maybe Ewan McGregor.
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The Stills, Jamie Lidell, !!! (aka Bork Bork Bork), Mu, Nine Inch Nails, Francis Poulenc, the Editors, Kraftwerk, Dead Kennedys, Shostakovich, Ellen Allien, Mission of Burma, Schubert, Editors, Glenn Gould, Interpol, Beethoven, Wire, Out Hud, Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, Miss Kittin, Alfred Yankovic, T.Raumschmiere, Anthony Holborne, Iggy Pop, Clinic, Adult., Cabaret Voltaire, The Smiths, Coldcut, U.N.K.L.E., Josquin des Pres, Suicide, Big Country, Joy Division, Simian, Palestrina, The Cure, Plastilina Mosh, XTC, Simple Minds, The Pixies, Radiohead, TV on the Radio, Arnold Schoenberg, the Andrews Sisters, Radio 4, Siouxsie, Love of Diagrams, the Cinematics, Maximo Park. pretty much anything on DFA, Shitkatapult, bpitch control etc. music that my friends and co-workers like to call "shitty, gay-ass techno," Mopey British bands, preferably those who unabashedly rip-off Gang of Four. Lately I've been grooving to Cole Porter & Irving Berlin tunes and stuff by the Gershwins.
Brazil, Heathers, Jules et Jim, Time Bandits, Being John Malkovich, Strangers on a Train, Santa Sangre, the Empire Strikes Back, Princess Bride, Erik the Viking, Children of Men, Sunshine (the Danny Boyle one, but the Ralph Fiennes one is awesome too), Trainspotting, The Seventh Seal, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Breaking the Waves, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Zardoz, Shaun of the Dead, The Hebrew Hammer, Herzog, Bergman, Truffaut, Hitchcock, Terry Gilliam, Fear of a Black Hat, The Last Dragon, movies featuring submarines and/or large-scale disasters.
Mr. Show, the Simpsons, Robot Chicken, Family Guy, South Park, The Ben Stiller Show, Kids in the Hall, Firefly, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, The Incredible Hulk, and I FUCKING LOVE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE!
Non-fiction books about linguistics, cultural anomalies, and nerdy stuff in general. Fiction: Running With Scissors, Middlesex, anything by Sarah Vowell, Harry Potter, The Metamorphosis, Jude the Obscure, Lemony Snicket, Green Eggs and Ham, Eats Shoots and Leaves, White Teeth, Ethan Frome, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, The OED, Stuff by Camus (cuz I'm like so cultured n smart n shit), Laura Ingalls Wilder, David Sedaris, Jerzy Kozinski, Kurt Vonnegut, Christopher Moore. Currently obsessed with Neil Gaiman.
Peter Hook, Ludwig von Beethoven, Jamie Lidell, Aquaman, Your Mom