Movies, music, reading and writing, and SPORTS!!!
Afghan Whigs, Agent Orange, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Aqualung, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Band of Horses, David Bazan, Belle & Sebastian, Beulah, Brendan Benson, Buffalo Tom, Built to Spill, Calexico, Neko Case, Centro-Matic, the Circle Jerks, the Comas, Crystal Skulls, Cub Country, the Damned, Death Cab for Cutie, the Decemberists, Rocco Deluca and the Burden, the Descendents, Dinosaur Jr., Nick Drake, the Dream Syndicate, Eagles of Death Metal, Explosions in the Sky, Firehose, Five Eight, Franz Ferdinand, Robert Gomez, Jose Gonzalez, Guided by Voices, the Gutter Twins, Harley Poe, Homemade Knives, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Mason Jennings, Will Johnson, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Gary Jules, Damien Jurado, Kite Flying Society, Ben Kweller, Ray LaMontagne, Mark Lanegan, the Living End, Longwave, the Long Winters, Man or Astroman, Bob Marley, Doug Martsch, Midlake, Rhett Miller, the Misfits, Mudhoney, My Morning Jacket, Nada Surf, the National, Mike Ness, Nirvana, the New Pornographers, Oasis, Old 97s, Pearl Jam, Pedro the Lion, Pilot Speed, the Pixies, Robert Pollard, the Raconteurs, Joshua Radin, the Redwalls, the Replacements, Damien Rice, Rogue Wave, Josh Rouse, Aaron Schroeder, Screaming Trees, the Sex Pistols, Shellac, the Shins, David Shultz, Skytone, Elliott Smith, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Southern Culture on the Skids, South San Gabriel, Spoon, Nico Stai, the Strokes, Sun Kil Moon, the Supersuckers, Tenacious D, the Thrills, Tilly and the Wall, the Toy Dolls, Travis, T.S.O.L., the Twilight Singers, Verbena, Rocky Votolato, M. Ward, the Western States Motel, Whiskeytown, the White Stripes, Wilco, Wintergreen, Wolf Parade, X, and Pete Yorn.
Aliens, Amadeus, American History X, Animal House, Army of Darkness, Big Fish, the Big Lebowski, Black Hawk Down, Blue Velvet, Boogie Nights, Bubba Ho-Tep, Clerks, Cool Hand Luke, Cop Land, Creepshow, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Dazed and Confused, Dead Alive, Dead Poet's Society, Ed Wood, Evil Dead I and II, The Exorcist, Fargo, Full Metal Jacket, Goodfellas, The Green Mile, Halloween, Jaws, L.A. Confidential, Mallrats, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Napoleon Dynamite, Night of the Hunter, Night of the Living Dead, O Brother, Where Art Thou, Platoon, Pan's Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Return of the Living Dead, Royal Tenenbaums, Shaun of the Dead, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Sin City, Sling Blade, The Squid and the Whale, Stand By Me, The Thing, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects, and Wild at Heart, to name a few.
I am a disciple of Sportscenter. The only primetime series I watch weekly is Lost (and I am way behind on that). I also watch a ton of sports, Seinfeld re-runs, the Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Adult Swim (Venture Bros., Robot Chicken, etc.), and a lot of crap on the Sci Fi Channel. I am also addicted to all things MMA (UFC, the Ultimate Fighter, Pride, IFL, WEC).
I just finished No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, and I am about to read another of his novels, Blood Meridian. Some of my favorite books are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain), Anthem (Ayn Rand), Choke (Chuck Palahniuk), Different Seasons (Stephen King), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Geek Love (Katherine Dunn), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), In God We Trust...All Others Pay Cash (Jean Shepherd), Jaws (Peter Benchley), Meg (Steve Alten), 1984 (George Orwell), On Writing (Stephen King), Salem's Lot (Stephen King), The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) and Watership Down (Richard Adams). Plus, I love anything and everything by Christopher Moore, Joe Lansdale, and Chuck Palahniuk. I know, an eclectic list to say the least.