Driving my pick-up truck listening to "Captain Jack" by Billy Joel is pretty much one of my favorite things in the universe. I also like public radio A LOT namely - This American Life ( why won't you have me??!!) , Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, and The Sound of Young America. I like nicknames, also. Like "Brains" or "Hot Rod". Also, I think Chinese people and Jews are pretty much totally the same deal, just like Germans are Japanese, Phillipinos are Italian, and Koreans are Polish. It's so obvious, I don't think I need to explain.
Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant, Kyle Pilkington
Bettye Swann. Al Green. Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Wonderful, CocoRosie, Fela Kuti, Carole King, and...JOURNEY!!! SURVIVOR!!! STAN BUSH !!! get the fuck into that nonsense. Pretty much anywhere between sad soul songs and power ballads...
Elling, I Was Born But..., Ghengis Blues, Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Safe Men, You Can Count on Me, The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Pride and Prejudice (UK miniseries), Rubin & Ed, Shaun of the Dead, The Transformers Movie, First Blood, all the Leathal Weapon Movies, ditto for Die Hard, Million Dollar Baby, Back to the Future, Man on Fire, Closer, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Fallen Angels, Chungking Express, Tampopo, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Shower, Dead Man, Mystery Train, George Washington, Joe the King, Gone With the Wind, The Great Escape, Brazil, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Departed
Freaks and Geeks. The Office (UK and US). Simpsons, FLCL, Evangelion, Arrested Development, Mr. Show, Fawlty Towers, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, Rome, BlackAdder, Northern Exposure, Ab Fab, I Claudius, Planet Earth. Deadwood is the greatest show ever made.
Catch 22, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House, Slaughterhouse Five, Hey Rube! Idiot Proof, What's the Matter With Kansas? The Kite Runner, To Kill a Mockingbird, My Less than Secret Life, Possible Side Effects, Naked, Don't Get Too Comfortable, Lolita, Confederacy of Dunces, Birds of America, The Sound and the Fury, Another Country, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, I Capture the Castle, His Dark Materials series, The Phantom Tollbooth, 21 Balloons
HST, Ira Glass, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, Baron Von Steuben