Mindfucking, changing the world, quantum physics, agit-prop art, using the power for good, making out, post-apocalyptic survival, kittens.
Scientist-rockstars, superheroes, and baby pandas. And, please, a unicorn or two.Look out for "Rock Band Cometh: The Rock Band Band Story" coming soon to a television near you! For a sneak peak, check out the re-release of their groundbreaking music video (Rock Band Band invented the music vide): ..
REM, eels, Frank Zappa, The Long Winters, The Postal Service, Joni Mitchell, Mike Doughty, The Wrens, 60s folk music, protest rock, John Vanderslice, David Bowie, David Byrne, Ken Stringfellow, Soul Coughing, Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, Polyphonic Spree, Tegan & Sara, Minus 5, Mountain Goats, Sufjan Stevens, and all sorts of guilty pleasures like "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "We Built This City" and "Let The River Run."And all those Kelly Clarkson singles, but don't let that tarnish my AWESOMELY indie street cred.
Any scene featuring Harold Ramis, the 'Tiny Dancer' bit in Almost Famous, the RNA protein-synthesis Jabberwocky movie, Existenz, Waking Life, Toys, City of Lost Children, Annie Hall, Children of Men, North by Northwest, Dirty Dancing (no, really).
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (aka "Balatica"), America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Twin Peaks, anything about cosmology, NOVA episodes about quantum physics, Spaceghost Coast to coast, Fraggle Rock, Top Chef, So You Think You Can Dance (loves!!!), Lost, House, Granatomy, Primetime Medical Mysteries, Planet Earth (but only in HD) all those talking-head shows on VH1 (blatant self-promotion).
Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. Anything by Heinlein especially Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love. Anything about quantum physics. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. World War Z. Anything by George Carlin. How To Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce. Cruddy by Lynda Barry. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman. Anything about Woody Guthrie.
Woody Guthrie, Frank Zappa, Andy Kaufman, Lenny Bruce, Wonder Woman.