2-round election systems and campaign finance reform; Cheese and things that go with cheese; Coffee, sweet coffee; Dancing in inappropriate places and at inappropriate times; Exploring nooks, caves, and other such crevices; Finding new sushi places and playing with uneaten sushi while eating its sushi friends; Intelligent poetry; Looking for new music; Modern art that's better than something I could make while drunk; Reading classics and attempting to develop interests in authors who aren't dead yet; Red (yes, the color); Rugby; Soccer when Manchester United and Germany lose; Shiny objects; Stumbling upon architectural wonders; Trying and judging restaurants (French, New American, Japanese mostly); Wanderlust that fills my passport and empties my wallet
People who will hand me slow-drip coffee in the morning and Jameson anytime after noon. And someone with access to monkeys that I can play with. Never trust someone who doesn't like monkeys, but never trust a monkey.
A.C. Newman; Apples in Stereo; The Arcade Fire; Architecture in Helsinki; Beulah; Bishop Allen; Mr. Bowie; Camera Obscura; Cat Power; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; The Clientele; Clinic; Decemberists; Destroyer; Elliott Smith; The Fall; Gang of Four; Iron & Wine; The Kinks; The Magnetic Fields; Mirah; My Bloody Valentine; Mogwai; Neutral Milk Hotel; The New Pornographers; Of Montreal; Okkervil River; Pavement; Radiohead; Rilo Kiley; The Shins; Silver Jews; Six Organs of Admittance; Smashing Pumpkins; Stephen Malkmus; Sufjan Stevens; Talking Heads; Tapes 'n Tapes; The Velvet Underground; Wilco; Wire; Yo La Tengo
12 Angry Men; Almost Famous; Armadeus; Big Lebowski; The Decalogue; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Fight Club; The Graduate; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Pan's Labyrinth; Pride & Prejudice (BBC); The Princess Bride; The Royal Tenenbaums; Sideways; Usual Suspects; Trois Couleurs; Wonder Boys
The Colbert Report; The Daily Show; Family Guy; Flight of the Conchords; Futurama; L Word; Law & Order; Newsradio; The Office (US); Project Runway; Scrubs; Simpsons; Six Feet Under; Sopranos; South Park; Top Chef; Venture Brothers; The West Wing
More authors than books...Jane Austen; Dostoevsky; Dave Eggers; Jeffrey Eugenides; Euripides; James Joyce; Nabokov; Sharon Olds; David Sedaris
I don't believe in heroes.