BANTER!!! Why are so many people banter-challenged? I heart good, random-references, sarcasm and wise-assedness - banter! I also love design in all forms - art, fashion, architecture, landscaping. Music, animals, plants, home repair. Playing with language. The word FUCK, and equally innocous things that people choose to find offensive, when there are real offenses going on in the world.
Christopher Guest, David Cross, Christopher Moore, Judi Dench, Mike Holmes, John Lennon, Frank Lloyd Wright, and George W Bush (in a dark alley).
I'm into jazz and blues these days... Billy Holiday, Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Robert Johnson, etc. I like little pieces, the best pieces, of many genres. Folk and new wave and classic rock and hip hop and industrial and more. Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Sade, Death Cab, Depeche Mode, Jeff Buckley, Fleetwood Mac, old Michael Jackson, Public Enemy, Bob Marley, David Grey, Radiohead, Sarah McLachlin, etc.
Blood Diner! Sword and the Sorcerer, Freaks, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Beauty, all things Christopher Guest (Spinal Tap, Best in Show, etc). Sleepaway Camp, Weird Science, The Jerk, Color Purple, Repo Man, Shakespeare in Love, The Royal Tennenbaum's, Beastmaster, Clash of the Titans
Big Love, Rome, Six Feet Under, The Daily Show, Project Runway, Law & Order, Clean Sweep (so satisfying, for us obsessive compulsive types), Forensic Files, National Geographic shows, the History Channel
Lamb - the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (and everything else by Christopher Moore), Transmetropolitan (comic), The Shipping News, Natural History of the Senses, The Last Unicorn, The Giving Tree.
Christopher Guest, Eames, Frank Lloyd Wright, Erte, Joni Mitchell, Jon Stewart