edification, the pursuit of amusement, other humans, coffee, laughter, wordplay, binge-drinking, the ocean, science and technology, neoteny, strategery, making noise, children's drawings, mountains, overthrowing the bush admin, passing out on the train, photographing things, urban decay, skateboarding, denmark, the intraweb, chess, all things india, the nba, thai food, alaska, produce, boardgames, not having a car.
oh, i don't know. maybe someone who can hold my interest longer than oh wait what's that shiny thing over there
OF LATE: deerhoof! joanna newsom! broadcast, ravel/debussy, stravinsky, jaga jazzist, caribou, broken social scene, blonde redhead, iron and wine, sufjan stevens, hayden, belle/sebastian, ALWAYS: pavement!, stereolab, elliott smith, bjork, lips, rufus wainwright, the shins, wilco, tortoise, the kinks, my bloody valentine, sea and cake, american analog set, grandaddy, sam prekop, fiery furnaces, sonic youth, dinosaur jr, radiohead, sigur ros, aphex/squarepusher...beatles, 80's mope-rock, old 80's/90's hardcore, old punk, early hip-hop, old reggae, 40's-60's jazz (trane, miles, et al), rare funk 45's, overrated indie-band-du-jour... your favorite band sucks.the spamallstars(.com!) are a fun band to see.
pan's labyrinth! anything old or black and white. (seriously, anything!) wes anderson flicks, eternal sunshine, being malkovich, kubrick, lynch, quirky french flicks (toto le hero, anybody?), kurosawa, john waters, cannonball run, willy wonka, early jackie chan, von trier, matthew barney, political docs, old b-flicks (see: cannonball run)
nba, ifc, meet the press, daily show, robot chicken, aqua teen, knight rider, alf, CHiPs
authors: tom robbins!, edmund white, augusten burroughs, h.s. thompson, bukowski, fitzgerald/hemingway, hesse, celine, vonnegut, sartre/camus, kafka, rand, salinger, chomsky, krishnamurti, zinn, sedaris, eggars, subversive leftist propaganda...
edison, mom, the dalai lama, wayne coyne, miles, stravinsky, my 9 year-old niece, bjork guddmonsdottir, john stockton, the lord our saviour jesus christ, ray nagin, roger lodge.