Soccer, getting angry when renovating my house, landscaping, ripping off new music, Starbucks, sleep, spending large amounts of cash on seamingly worthless repairs (cars, house, pets, etc.), architecture, architecture, architecture ...
Aquaman. Team Zissou. The cast of California Dreams. California Raisins. People who still like to 'raise the roof'. The cat on the hot tin roof. The Tin Man. Rin Tin Tin. Rikki-Tiki-Tavi. Tiki Bob. Bob the Builder. Bob Barker. A carnival barker. A cruiseship captain. Captain Steubing. The Skipper. The millionaire (and his wife).
Year of the Rabbit, Figurines, Failure, She Wants Revenge, Papa Vegas, Death Cab for Cutie, Depeche Mode, Postal Service, Brand New, Bloc Party, The Killers, M83, Muse, Morcheeba, Portishead, Kent, Earlimart, Gorillaz, Massive Attack, Scratching Post, New Order, Jurassic 5, Travis, Garbage, Snow Patrol, The Ataris, Metric, Client, Emiliana Torrini, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, Thom Yorke, Frou Frou
Fight Club. Pulp Fiction. Unbreakable. 7even. Super Size Me (stop eating that shite people). Beautiful Girls (the best almost-sick-and-wrong romance story ever). Indiana Jones. Star Wars. Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2. Garden State. The Goonies. LA Confidential. The Matrix. The Usual Suspects. Sixth Sense (get this; the kid sees dead people!). Almost any John Hughes movie from the eighties. Anything dorky and Sci-fi.
Battlestar Galactica (coolest show in space). Lost. Scrubs. Significant Others (R.I.P.). My Name is Earl. Grey's Anatomy. Over There (R.I.P.). 24. CSI. Anthony Bourdain. Gilligan's Island.
Freakonomics. Cryptonomicon. Purple Cow. Band of Brothers.
Most heroes remain nameless (deep!). Some people that I admire: Teddy Roosevelt, Martin L. Gore, Steve Wynn (not the 'Higher Love' guy), Leonardo DaVinci, that painter who cut off his ear, Dad, Aquaman, Tony Little and his hair. James Dicks - for showing me the way to financial freedom. Boxcar Willie. Zamfir.