music, theater, writing, cooking, popular culture, travel, intellectual conversations, inane and silly conversations
fun unpretentious people with a good mixture of seriousness and sillyness
Bjork, Radiohead, Tool, Sleater-Kinney, Stereolab, Television, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Fugazi, Bob Dylan, Parliament, Stevie Wonder, Death Cab, Breeders, The Beatles, American Analog Set, Modest Mouse, Gillian Welch, Tom Waits, Iron and Wine, Johny Cash, The Shins, David Bowie, Midnight Movies, Elliot Smith, Cat Power, The Cure, Talking Heads, Nick Drake, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Midnight movies, Pinback, Le Tigre, Neko Case, Dios Malos, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, Susanna Baca, and Ruben Blades
Spirited Away, Mulholland Drive, Being John Malkovich, Rashoman, Akira, Donnie Darko, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, Raising Arizona, Princess Mononoke, Abre Los Ojos, Todo Sobre mi Madre, Secretary, Amelie, Neverending Story, Goonies, Annie Hall, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Six Feet Under, The OC (cheesy but oh so fun), The Iron Chef, Arrested Development
Orwell, Delillo, Huxley, Bukowski, Vonnegut, Sandra Tsing Loh, Joyce Carol Oates, Rushdie, Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, Ionesco, Arrabal, Pinter, Shakespeare, Suzan-Lori Parks, Zadie Smith, Dahl, Where the Wild Things Are, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and tons of other stuff
If I said Che Guevara am I going to be mysteriously investigated by the government? But seriously, probably Bob Dylan, Bob Fosse, and the amazing actors, actresses, and theater artists of Yuyachkani in Lima, Peru.