film, music, reading, writing, finding kick-spots, vintage synthesizers, all things analog, caffeine, fake-lunchmeat tacos, jaw harps, lo-fi pop songs, sushi, Pabst Blue Ribbon, good bourbon, Fisher-Price camcorders, circuit bending, dive bars with excellent jukeboxes, 45rpm records, the Peddler's Mall, ferrets, cockatoos, woolly sea beasts.
Paul Westerberg/The Replacements, Wilco, Elvis Costello, Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard, Husker Du, Yo La Tengo, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Fall, Hayden, LUCKY PINEAPPLE, D.W. BOX, BAD BLOOD, VRKTM, THE COMMONWEALTH, PONTY'S CAMPER, THE DUBIOUS DUO, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Nick Drake, Weezer (the 1st two albums), The Nips, The Who, Tom Waits, Beck, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, The Sonics, DEVO, The Flaming Lips, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Petra Haden, The Decemberists, Antony and the Johnsons, Captain Beefheart, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jim O' Rourke, John Fahey, Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, Daniel Johnston, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Television, Silver Apples, Bruce Haack, Kraftwerk, Die Doraus und Die Marinas, German new wave, The Wipers, Sonic Youth, Bonnie Prince Billy, People Under the Stairs, MF Doom, Dr. Octagon, The Coup, Kate mixes, The Kinks, Neil Young, Mission of Burma, John Cale, Plastic Ono Band, Joy Division, etc etc etc
Lynch, Herzog, Cassavetes, Kubrick, Scorsese, Linklater, Von Trier, Welles, Sergio Leone, Fellini, Tarantino, Rodriguez, Soderbergh, Korine, Raimi, Fincher, Judd Apatow, Tim Burton, Alfonso Cuaron, Inarritu, Cronenberg, Gondry, Romero, Wes Anderson, etc. Favorite movies of all time: Blue Velvet, Ghostbusters, Night of the Living Dead & Dawn of the Dead, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Dr. Strangelove, Dead Ringers, Rushmore.
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Penn and Teller: Bullshit, Da Ali G Show, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks, Fishing with John, Squidbillies.
The Proud Highway/Fear in Loathing in America, The Rum Diary (HST), The Road (McCarthy), House of Leaves (Danielewski), Dubliners & Ulysses (Joyce), The Crying of Lot 49 & Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon), Lolita (Nabokov), Middlesex (Eugenides), The Black Dahlia and My Dark Places (Ellroy), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera), High Fidelity (Hornby), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers), The Floating Opera, End of the Road, Lost in the Funhouse (Barth), Sexus & Black Spring (H. Miller), Glimpses (Shiner), The Time Traveler's Wife (Niffenegger), Hunger (Hamsun), The God Delusion (Dawkins), The Terror Timeline (P. Thompson), anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver's poetry, A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), and lots of other pretentious English-major shite.