Zach, NPR, watching documentaries, cooking, zombies, self-diagnosing myself with incurable diseases, zach-chini, sloths, crossword puzzles, collecting vinyl, "working" on my car and being manly, stickers, drinking $3 Dos Equis "monster beers", watching Martha Stewart holiday specials with James, raccoons, speaking Latin, sewing, electric blankets, Russia, dancing badly, overanalyzing things, cutting my hair, spooning, being alone, wine, the way books smell, cinnamaroll, making mix tapes, my daschund, Super Nintendo Jeopardy, Jezebel, fall, leaves, robots, swings, breaking into abandoned houses, making buttons, dishes that are shaped liked food, hairspray, peeling dried glue off my fingers, very large sunglasses, waffle house, paddleball, chopsticks, cleaning, listening to the rain, Scattergories and Scrabble, dinosaurs, good car karma, accidentally setting my hair on fire, MadLibs, antiques, all African-American Primitive Baptists churches, playing bass, my job, croquet, snowforts, cigarettes, mysteries, driving my car, warm laundry, postcards, night time, polaris, black coffee, moogs, flavored popcorn powder, fresh-cut grass smell, eskimos, lambchop, cupcake, and love.
Old Crow Medicine Show, Ronin, The Liars, The Exploding Hearts, Buddy Holly, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, ILYBICD, The Moldy Peaches, Little Wings, Smog, The Unicorns, The Faint, The Postal Service, The Black Keys, The Misfits, Tiger Army, The Ramones, Sigur Ros, RadioHead, The Velvet Teen, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker, Death Comes to Matteson, Mineral, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, Billie Holiday, Stuck Lucky, Sinatra, PS, Iron and Wine, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Jets to Brazil, The Decemberists, Q and not U, Kind of Like Spitting, The Northern Lights, Christie Front Drive, The Weakerthans, Les Savy Fav, Mogwai, Godspeed, Daniel Johnston, The Zombies, The Silver Jews, A Silver Mt. Zion, The Shins, The Pink Spiders, Outkast, Xiu Xiu, The Rachels, Black Heart Procession, Kissing Tigers, Last days of April, The Stills, the Rocky soundtracks, Lightning Bolt, Black Soul Choir, Michael Acree, Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club, Pinback, Le Tigre, Paper Moon, Nico, Bonnie Prince Billie, Eno, Glossary, Polvo, The Cars, Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, Talking Heads, Television, Lucero, !!!, The Mountain Goats, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Handsome Family, Wolfparade, T-Rex, Black Mountain, The Pink Mountaintops, Island, Calexico, Wilco, The Castanets, SJ and the Props, Eno, The Fruitbats, Dion, Leonard Cohen, Creech Holler, The Young Livers, Freezepop, Catfish Haven, The Animals, Tarkio Omnibus, Of Montreal, The Slackers, Jerk With a Bomb, Jerry Lee Lewis, Animal Collective, Elekibass, Lederhosen Lucil, Smog, blahblahblah
Sometimes I watch the History Channel. Or informercials. Oh, and the Food Network, the Dinosaurs TV show that used to come on, and House!
Salinger, Murakami, Camus, Sartre, Wilde, Hemingway, Huxley, Bantock, Nietschze, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Palahniuk, Corso, Yeats, Cassidy, Vonnegut, Miller, Joyce, Heller, too many others to list- anyone with a brain that stimulates my brain.
Marlon Brando, Johnny Cash, J.D. Salinger, Egon Schiele, Darren Arronofsky, the man at Waffle House.