words, sentences, paragraphs, writing, reading, french theory (esp. the feminist/post-structuralists), visual rhetoric, numbers, photography, music, poker, the 70s, courtroom proceedings, hotels, travelling and some other stuff i can't remember right now.
the cure, white stripes, band of horses, the national, cold war kids, muse, pixies, red house painters, radiohead, verve, sonic youth, bauhaus, joy division, spiritualized, slowdive, bread, beegees, patsy cline, linda ronstadt, jeff buckley, pj harvey, led zeppelin, billie holiday, etta james, ella fitzgerald, drive like jehu, leonard cohen, yokodeathray, velvet underground, queens of the stone age, etc.Check out my 70s mix on finetune (love love love this!)
donnie darko, the royal tenenbaums, life aquatic, confessions of a dangerous mind, fargo, raising arizona, hurly burly, the hours, cabinet of dr. kaligari, wizard of oz, la dolce vita, clueless, killbill2, waiting for guffman, requiem for a dream, the shining, streetcar named desire, breakfast at tiffany's, most of tarantino's work, edward scissorhands, the nightmare before christmas, 2001: A Space Odyssey, dracula (w/gary oldman of course), apocalypse now, repulsion, spirited away, crash, you and me and everyone we know, etc.
snow
any or most things by: clarice lispector, anne carson, julia kristeva, helene cixous, virginia woolf, gertrude stein, milan kundera, tolstoy (just read anna karenina--what a fucking genius!), maurice blanchot, charlotte bronte, jeanette winterson, hermann hesse, georges perec, roland barthes, anais nin, henry miller, jean rhys, don delillo (esp. white noise), dostoyevsky, camus, anne sexton, marilynne robinson, knut hamsun, nadja by andre breton, J.K. Huysman, toni morrison, faulkner, fitzgerald, hemingway, ted hughes so many more.
batman, anne carson, virginia woolf, edward r. murrow