things that rule. this may or may not include you. or me.
the nookie monster. Failing that, anyone who can tell me exactly how long it takes to cook a Steak in an easy-bake-oven. Seriously.
some stuff i listen to: Johnny Cash, Jawbreaker, Modest Mouse, The Bouncing Souls, Pavement, Snapcase, Quicksand, Wire, Buzzcocks, Sleater-Kinney, the arcade fire, smog, Violet femms, luna, Unwound, Nick Drake, Pixies, The Clash, The Magnetic Fields, Fugazi, Brian Eno, The New Pornographers, Karp, Tight Bros from Way Back When, The Shins, The Get Up Kids, Guided by Voices, Minutemen, Gang of Four, Les Save Fav, The Libertines, The Kills, New Order, Echo, Gnag of four, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Donnie Darko, Dodgeball, Lost in Translation, Bottlerocket, Rushmore, Zero Effect, Old School, Kill Bill, No Such Thing, the station agent, Blade Runner, Withnail and I, Close Encounters, Serenity, The Big Lebowski, Cube, le jette, most films on any Turner network.
History Channel, Science Channel, Comedy Channel. The Office. BattleStar Galactica.
Your Disgusting Head, America - the good people at the Daily Show. and a LOT of wierd science fiction books, which i consider to be research actually. Of note would be anything by Robert Heinlein and The Two Moons by James Hogan. Orson Scott Card has some pretty good stuff too.
Hogies; Grinders