Things I Love
all things Music (playing, writing, listening)
Anime
Music Videos
Anime Music Videos
sleeping, or not sleeping
Good Movies
Effects Pedals
Guitar Stores
shows of the musical and local variety
Daniel Johnston - Mask
Hella - Biblical Violence
John Frusciante - Going Inside
Liars - The Other Side Of Mt. Heart Attack
Xiu Xiu - Clowne Towne
Presidents of the United States of America - Some Postman
favorite bands: My Bloody Valentine, The Red Robot, Polite Sleeper, Dreamend, Panda and Angel, Green Rifle, Green Hills Alone, Some Bye Sea, Junius, The Eloi, Duologue, Red Pony Clock, In the Rye, Wow and Flutter, Voltage, Liars, Nirvana, John Frusciante, Against Me!, Less Than Jake, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Neil Young, Didley Squat, Cold War Kids, Drew Danbury, Casio Casanova, BARR, Kimya Dawson, Mogwai, Akira Yamaoka, The White Stripes, Cat Power, Bouncing Souls, Radiohead, Xiu Xiu, Tom Waits, Daniel Johnston, Ween,
other bands i really dig: Murder By Death, Belda Beast, Giant Mirrors, Beat Happening, Television, Boyd Rice, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pixies, Lou Reed, The Vaselines, An Angle, Antlerand, Brilliant Red Lights, La Dolce Vita, Everything, Secret Stolen, The Eames Era, The Tremula, Taughtme, History Invades, S, Parts and Labor, Final Fantasy, Roy, Snow Cuts Glass, Bob Dylan, Interpol, They Might Be Giants, Godspeed You! Black Emporer,
a while ago, someone told me a joke that if any movie could be described as surreal, weird, or dreamlike, then i would eat it up. they were pretty much right.
Anything by these film makers:
David Lynch
Jim Jarmusch
Wes Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Satoshi Kon
Hal Hartley
Michel Gondry
also: just about anything that Sudio 4C writes, Donnie Darko, Eraserhead, Perfect Blue, A Scanner Darkly, Trust, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cat Soup, Henry Fool, Darjeeling Limited, Punch-Drunk Love, Angel's Egg, Pi, Naked Lunch, The Science of Sleep, Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer, Down by Law. documentaries about bands are pretty neat as well.
the best american shows ever are Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, The Critic, and Futurama. PROVE ME WRONG!!!
some other good shows are Heroes, My Name is Earl, The Office, How I Met your Mother, Scrubs, Chowder, and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
anime is better than regular tv. some of my favorites include:
Azumanga Daioh, Urusei Yatsura, Minami-Ke, FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Serial Experiments Lain, Lucky Star, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Boogiepop Phantom, Ergo Proxy, Ah! My Goddess, Eureka Seven, Trigun, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
if you're bored enough to look, here's a list of most of the anime i've seen. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/MyAnime/?user=tedbannana
i've enjoyed everything i've read by Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Phillip K. Dick, Animal Farm, The Giver, The Feed, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, House of Leaves, Brave New World, The Perks of Being a wallflower, Ender's Game, and book about or written by bands and musicians.
Comics/Manga: The Maxx, Sandman, Watchmen, Sin City, Creature Tech, Bone, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Azumanga Daioh, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Maison Ikkoku, Urusei Yatsura.
Solid Snake, Strike Truckston, Cliff Edge, Sgt. Fightmaster, and the Green Lantern. Kyle Rayner to be specific. "gay 90's mask" and all...