ann gale, audrey hepburn, bottlecaps, christopher walken, coffee, college radio, david lynch, diamanda galas, dorothy parker, driving, edward gorey, epistemology, equality, farscape, floccinaucinihilipilification, frida kahlo, gene krupa, hair dye, hats, henry rollins, hondas, iggy pop, incense & peppermints, j.d. salinger, journals, johnny the homicidal maniac, john singer sargent, julie taymor, kevin spacey, knitting, linguistics, london, lou reed, lucian freud, matthew lesko, mike mignola, mixtapes, oceans, painting, parliaments, pearls, peter jennings, PIRATES, pulling legs off spiders, road trips, rosie the riveter, sic transit gloria mundi, solipsism, spelling things correctly, stanley william hayter, steve buscemi, sunsets, sweaters, t.s. eliot, tarnation, thai food, theda bara, typewriters, unrequited love, verlaine, victorians, vintage dresses, vorpal swords, wayne thiebaud, wes anderson, world travel, writing.
led zeppelin, modest mouse, son house, jolie holland, the beatles, wilco, fugazi, crooks & nannies, patti smith, godspeed you black emperor!, the shins, bad company, eliott brood, blonde redhead, black keys, kaizer's orchestra, all girl summer fun band, björk, simon & garfunkel, radiohead, pinback, neil young, the white stripes, the candy bars, neko case, morrissey, talking heads, the rapture, rilo kiley, the pixies, yeah yeah yeahs, regina spektor, the theatre fire, pj harvey, the innocence mission, .....and you will know us by the trail of dead, the replacements, tom waits, vue, johnny cash, beck, the rolling stones, calexico, x, desaparecidos, ac/dc, something that rhymes with 'shmetallica'
lost in translation, coffee & cigarettes, the royal tenenbaums, donnie darko, the cabinet of dr. caligari, amélie, ghost world, almost famous, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, léon [the professional], a prairie home companion, grosse pointe blank, meeting people is easy, harold and maude, it's a wonderful life, memento, spinal tap, rushmore, say anything, better off dead, bbc's pride and prejudice
LOST.....also mythbusters, iron chef, jeopardy, farscape [r.i.p.], and anything featuring alton brown. god, i'm a big dork.
a moveable feast [hemingway], pilgrim at tinker creek [dillard], all other annie dillard books, middlesex [eugenides], all works of dorothy parker, all works of pablo neruda & rainer maria rilke, white noise [delillo], the girl's guide to hunting and fishing [bank], the god of small things [arundhati roy], the great gatsby [fitzgerald], the melancholy of anatomy [shelley jackson], a heartbreaking work of staggering genius [eggers], lullaby [palahniuk], survivor [palahniuk], all harry potter books, lies and the lying liars who tell them [franken], if on a winter's night a traveler [calvino], all works of e.e. cummings, one hundred years of solitude [gabriel garcia marquez], the air-conditioned nightmare [henry miller], the grapes of wrath [steinbeck], travels with charley [steinbeck], house of leaves [danielewski]
leonard bernstein, leonid brezhnev, lenny bruce and lester bangs.
also
adam savage & jamie hyneman.