hairdressing, photography, arts & crafts, bicycle riding, kickball, dark beer, rainy days, sex, motorcycles, board games, photo booths, wooden jewerly, red wines, sewing, crossword puzzles, beards and body hair, freaks, geeks & carnies, astrology.
mostly sad bastard music and hair bands: morrissey, nina simone, springsteen, lucero, tom waits, kings of convenience, leonard cohen, the smiths, johnny cash, buddy holly, iggy pop, prince, dax riggs, antony & the johnsons, cat power, evan dando, herman dune, thievery corporation, the flaming lips, journey, the hold steady, ratatat, ani difranco, phoenix, cocteau twins, sufjan stevens, steely dan, rufus wainwright, murder by death, saul williams, jeff buckley, belly, cursive, pj harvey, sondre lerche, yoko ono.
films by francois ozon, michel gondry, errol morris - henry and june, secretary, pi, the legend of billy jean, anything with james spader or willam dafoe, cannibal the musical, everything's illuminated.
anthony bourdain's no reservations, arrested development, lost, perfect strangers, the wonder years
sarah waters, david sedaris, daniel quinn, sylvia plath, robert pirsig, salinger, tom robbins, henry miller, chuck klosterman, anne sexton
jon stewart. i want him to whisper political satire in my ear all night.