Tennis, Scrabble, Classics, Demolished Cityscapes, the Q&As at belleandsebastian.com (why does MySpace sometimes automatically insert a semicolon after ampersands?); attempting to analyze Tony Soprano's dream sequences, malapropisms
Roger Federer, Gaius Julius Caesar, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Moltisanti, Pallas Athena, Joss Whedon, Wikipedia, Eleanor Friedberger, Ken Jennings, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Arcade Fire, At the Drive-In, The Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Built to Spill, The Cure, The Decemberists, Dismemberment Plan, The Fiery Furnaces, The Get Up Kids, Godspeed You! Black Emperor; Guided by Voices, The Hold Steady, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Pornographers, Pavement, The Police, Radiohead, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Sleater-Kinney, Smashing Pumpkins, Spoon, The Streets, Sufjan Stevens, Tori Amos, The White Stripes, Wilco, The Wrens, Yo La Tengo
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974); Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941); Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai, 1991); Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2005); The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971); Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003); Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990); The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939); Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984); Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950); Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976); Three Colors: Blue, White, Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993-4)
HBO: The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Rome, Big LoveOTHER: Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Twin Peaks, The Office (British & American), Futurama, Cracker, Northern Exposure
Homer, Ovid, Vergil, Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Dante, Hugo, Tolstoy, Fitzgerald
Soy Bomb