Music, dancing, hot tubs, wine, cooking, yoga, lit, travel, making fun of yuppies at bars, sushi, Chinese, international trade, politics, economics, general socialite stuff...
Chairman Mao, Bob Barker, Dubya, Conan O'Brian, and Paris Hilton of course.
Ugh (orgasmic ugh, not a the disgusted one): Mark Farina (anything), De La Soul, Tribe, The Cure, Bob Marley, The Black Keys, Jimi Hendrix, DJ Shadow, Ming & FS, Derrick Carter, Thievery Corporation, Aphex Twin, Basement Jaxx, Bjork, Peace Orchestra, St. Germain, Atmosphere, Common, Eyedyea & Abilities, The Pharcyde, The Roots, Mos Def, Daft Punk, Dangerdoom, Manu Chao, Los Amigos Invisables, old MJ, Bowie, Prince, Doves, Beck, The Rolling Stones, Al Green, Portishead, Radiohead, DJ Heather, Louie Vega, and The Mars Volta.
I heart with a vengence: The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Kill Bill I/II, Gone with The Wind, Mean Girls, High Fidelity, Lost in Translation, Old School, Amelie, Clerks, Pulp Fiction, Snakes on a Plane, and Casino.
While I believe that television is truely evil...I am addicted to it. I love: Arrested Development, Entourage, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Da Ali G Show, America's Next Top Model (I'm being honest here), Y & R, Days of Our Lives, Lost, The Simpsons (before season 11), and Sex and The City
Anything written by: Nabokov, Alice Walker or Salman Rushdie. I have also recently read: The Kite Runner, Reading Lolita in Tehran, A Million Little Pieces (did not like this, I just had to read it because of the hype), Memoirs of a Geisha, Siddartha, Running with Scissors, First They Killed my Father, Breakfast of Champions, Time Quake, Me Talk Pretty One Day...I try to do one book per week in the summer
My Dad is my personal hero. I love my daddy, he is truely a great man among men. A socialist, union member, organic food lover, salmon smoker, hardcore walker, BMW fanatic...Minnesota man.