philosophy, philosophy of mind, writing and recording music, sociology, linguistics, human history as a science, economics, the outdoors, jurisprudence, paper marbling, progressive politics, the vegetary diet, duck boots, calling people "chump" or "jabroni," cloudy spring weather, bugs, gory surgeries, propositional logic, opening for margaret cho, getting dragged by trains, writing rock operas about one-night stands, floating down the potomac at night in the dead of winter, getting cavities filled without anesthesia, growing a mohawk on my leg, hyperventilation, my band, being kind, getting intimidated by other people, suicidal ideation, anything else enviable
haunted hayrides.
les savy fav, dio, belle and sebastian, the runaways, bad brains, of montreal, the wipers, air, the new pornographers, manowar, the arcade fire, the kaiser chiefs, elliott smith, the buzzcocks, camera obscura, et al.
nonfiction sample: jared diamond - guns, germs, & steel; marc hauser - moral minds; best american science and nature writing 2003-2005; temple grandin - animals in translation; george lakoff - moral politics; mary douglas - purity and danger; the consumer society reader; the routledge companion to aesthetics
fiction sample: virginia woolf, zora neale hurston, david foster wallace, don delillo, f. scott fitzgerald, charlotte bronte, edward gorey, zadie smith