Geekery and nerditude, comedy, video games, comics, being vulgar and uncouth, cartoons, Shakespeare, poetry, literature in general, silent films, movies, musics, boozin', cigarettes, Paul Weller, Batman, Jay Johnston, Phantasmagoria, Phantasmagoria: The Musical!, kicking ass at trivia games, your mom jokes.
YOUR MOM.
Paul Weller, The Jam, The Specials, The Style Council, The Beat, General Public, Dave Wakeling, Elliott Smith, Al Green, Elvis Costello, Joy Division, Aimee Mann, Adam Ant, The Clash, New Order, Badly Drawn Boy, Bob Dylan, DEAN MARTIN
A Fish Called Wanda, About a Boy, The Royal Tenenbaums, Harold & Maude, Ordinary People, The Big Lebowski, Lawrence of Arabia, Magnolia, The Magnificent Seven, MASH, Nashville, On The Waterfront, Modern Times, The General, Sherlock Jr., Dangerous Beauty, L.A. Confidential, The Great Escape, Cat Ballou, Coming to America, Rio Bravo, High Noon, anything by Kenneth Branagh, anything by Woody Allen, and I am a total sucker for baseball movies.
BANACEK, Slings & Arrows, Arrested Development, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Show, The Kids in the Hall, The Vacant Lot, The Upright Citizen's Brigade, and cartoons in general, though especially Jay Ward toons and oldschool Looney Tunes.
Lots and lots. Catch-22, East of Eden, Tender is the Night, A Moveable Feast, Absalom Absalom, The Moon is Down, Death in the Afternoon, This Side of Paradise, The Sun Also Rises, The Winter of Our Discontent, High Fidelity, and any biography about Nicholas Romanov II. I'm a fucking dork.
Veronica Franco . Also Hallie Flanagan and anyone else who told HUAC to piss off.