Reading, writing, music, ghosts, swimming, skating, Anglophilia, Hong Kong, urban exploration, comics, movies, TV, Berlin, Francophilia, fashion, knitting, animal welfare, Johnny Damon, Loveline, sushi, southern food, true crime, boating, art brut, writing real letters on actual stationery, Aubrey Beardsley and Erté drawings, Guy Bourdin photographs, looking through other people's windows, rubbernecking.
Interesting (but not in a perverted way) Chicagoans.
St. Etienne, Stereolab, Ivy, I Am the World Trade Center, Ima Robot, The BeeGees, The Spinners, Duran Duran, Outkast, Guns n' Roses, The Hollies, Badfinger, Tears for Fears, Blondie, Cheap Trick, Squeeze, Cousteau, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Elvis Presley, Dionne Warwick, Franz Ferdinand, Sly and the Family Stone, Blur, Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie, Scissor Sisters, Nellie McKay, Roxy Music, Tears for Fears, Morrissey, ELO, Al Green, Al Stewart, Marvin Gaye, The Sundays, Pulp, Daft Punk, Iggy Pop, Kate Bush, The Divine Comedy, Van Halen, My Morning Jacket.
Wet Hot American Summer, Amelie, Pretty in Pink, Labyrinth, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Virgin Suicides, Alice in Wonderland, His Girl Friday, Harold and Maude, The Haunting, Crybaby, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Velvet Goldmine, Clerks, The Mayor of the Sunset Strip, Trekkies, American Movie, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, My Life As A Dog, Eternal Sunshine, Shaun of the Dead, Sixteen Candles, Carnival of Souls, Ed Wood, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Henry Darger and the Realms of the Unreal, Boogie Nights.
The Office, AquaTeen Hunger Force, Gilmore Girls, America's Next Top Model, any PBS reality series, Reno 911, The State, Austin Stories, Freaks and Geeks, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Adventures of Pete + Pete, Arrested Development, Big Love.
Donna Tart, Joyce Carol Oates, Patrick McCabe, Roddy Doyle, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Brett Easton Ellis, J.D. Salinger, Roald Dahl, John Bellairs, George Orwell, Shannon Olson, Lynda Barry, Gwen Zepeda, Edith Wharton, Laurie Notaro, Appleby House, the Adrian Mole series, L. M. Montgomery, The Bell Jar, Shot In the Heart, H.P. Lovecraft, Edward Gorey.
Johnny Rotten, Debbie Harry, my high school English teacher, my grandpa.