My favorite things are movies, food, my family, travel, getting something good for dirt cheap, exercising, eavesdropping, looking at art, people-watching, heckling the TV with friends, clothes, the outdoors, bloopers, The Onion, the perfect sandwich, squirrels.
People who do what they say they're gonna. My own villa in Capri, Italy.
Beck, Herbert, J.J. Cale, PJ Harvey, Madlib and Stones Throw stuff, Dan the Automator, Mike Patton, Cibo Matto and their solo/side things, High Llamas, Steely Dan, Gorillaz, Talking Heads, John Lurie, Marc Ribot, Creedence, Anita O'Day, bossa nova, Serge Gainsbourg, the Land of Chocolate theme, anything funky, space rap
Airplane!, The Baxter, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Brick, Children of Men, Funny Face, Kicking and Screaming (1995), Marie Antoinette, Read My Lips, Singin' in the Rain, The American Astronaut, 13 Going on 30, Barcelona, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Days of Heaven, Tampopo, Donnie Darko, Mr. Jealousy, Down With Love, In July, The Naked Gun movies, The Big Lebowski, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz. I like a ton of movies, can't remember the rest.
The Office, Simpsons reruns, Strangers With Candy, Mr. Show, Spaced, The Soup, No Reservations, Rome, The Amazing Race, Friday Night Lights, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, Project Runway, Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks, and lots of the crap on the Food Network.
Anything by Anthony Bourdain, David or Amy Sedaris, Andrew Weil, Steve Almond, Bill Bryson, Melissa Bank, Hunter S. Thompson, Cintra Wilson, Alice Munro, Shirley Jackson. But Enough About Me by Jancee Dunn. Snake 'N' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret and other comics by Michael Kupperman.
Oh Sandwich, how can I stay mad at you?