politics, design, coincidences, travel, free will, photography, urban planning, things that are the same and things that are different, movies, negative space, history, improv, subversion, television, pudding
enthusiasts, polymaths, dilettantes, geniuses, specialists
Talking Heads, Four Tet, Billy Bragg, Philip Glass, Pixies, Boards of Canada, Bach, XTC, Badly Drawn Boy, Throwing Muses, Balanescu Quartet, Cocteau Twins, Elvis Costello, Ulrich Schnauss, Raymond Scott, New Order, Peter Gabriel, Specials, Smiths
The Empire Strikes Back, Brazil, Lost in Translation, Citizen Kane, True Stories, Good Bye Lenin!, Harold & Maude, Until the End of the World, Out of Sight, Topsy-Turvy, Night on Earth, It's a Wonderful Life, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Funny Bones, After Hours, Hudsucker Proxy, Amadeus, Groundhog Day
The Wire, The Prisoner, Lost, (new) Battlestar Galactica, Twin Peaks, Mad Men, 30 Rock, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, St. Elsewhere, Arrested Development, Journeyman, Daily Show, NewsRadio, Star Trek (TOS/TNG/DS9), Paper Chase, Buffy, Amazing Race, Law & Order, The Office, Match Game
The Mezzanine, Low Life, Re/Search ..11: Pranks!, Snow Crash, Self-Reliance (Emerson), Impossible Vacation, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)