fiction, writing, movies, Buddhist psychology, Taoism, feminism, autodidacticism, Dinosaur Comics, Bellen, being ahistorical, lifting the veil, my orb, tasteless jokes, the poignantly mundane, trying too hard, birch wood furniture, This American Life, Bob Ross, books, prose, unexpectedly heartfelt communication, hastily leaping from airplanes, unobstructed love, my posture, psychoanalyzing my cat, being morose, crippling self-awareness, high school English teachers, being brave, not being a Utahraptor, identification with the Supracosmic and Metacosmic void of primordial emptiness that is consciousness itself, puppies, eating spiders, naive idealism, post scripts, loyalty, friendship, wooden blocks, reckless positivity
Freddy Kreuger
Antsy Pants, Architecture in Helsinki, Band of Horses, Beat Happening, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, Beulah, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Chin Up Chin Up, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Daniel Johnston, The Feelies, The Figurines, Great Lake Swimmers, Jeffrey Lewis, Jolie Holland, Kimya Dawson, Magnetic Fields, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, The Microphones, Moldy Peaches, The Mountain Goats, My Morning Jacket, Of Montreal, Okkervil River, Palace Brothers, Pants Yell!, Paul Baribeau, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Wilco
Adaptation, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Hedwig, Reservoir Dogs, Pi, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Labyrinth, Storytelling, Mysterious Skin, Broken Flowers, 3 Extremes, Suicide Club, 3 Iron, Audition, Little Miss Sunshine, Cube 1-3, Lost in Translation, Elephant Man, Five Senses, A Very Long Engagement, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Weird Science, The Squid and the Whale, Happiness of the Katakuris
Mystery Science Theater, The Office, The Colbert Report, Conan, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The L-Word, 24, Arrested Development, Home Movies, Weeds, Dexter, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Haruki Murakami, Salinger, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Antoine de St. Exupery, Jean Dutourd, Dan Chaon, David Sedaris, Amy Hemple, Stephen Crane, Aimee Bender, Alexander King, Tillie Olsen, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., lots of different short story and flash fiction writers