Music:
J-Pop, Duran Duran, film music, Sigur Ros, Roxy Music, The Shins, Beatles, Muppet songs, Enon, Of Montreal, Gomez, Guster, Bright Eyes, Supergrass, Jolie Holland, Rufus Wainwright, Jimmy Reed, Tweaker, Ultra-Lounge, Pixies, David Sylvian, Beck, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Starlight Mints, Lisa Germano, Rachmaninoff, Bing Crosby, Neil Finn, Radiohead, Gershwin, Skip James, Bowie, Mendelssohn, Ludwig Van, Julie Andrews, standards, Wu Tang, Benny and Bjorn, music to prepare your taxes by
Movies:
My family's special movies are After the Fox, Wonder Man, and High Anxiety. For me personally? Lawrence of Arabia, Mary Poppins, Star Wars, Amélie, Rushmore, Woody Allen, Albert Brooks, A Clockwork Orange, Rear Window, Hudsucker Proxy, Muppet movies, Tampopo, Fassbinder, Tommy Boy, Joe vs. the Volcano, Cool Hand Luke, Bedazzled (the first one), What a Way to Go, The Girl Can't Help It, The World of Suzie Wong, epic fantasies, Louis Malle, Indiana Jones, Tarkovsky, Star Trek, A Guide for the Married Man, A Christmas Story, old Pippi Longstocking, have you seen that movie where Jason Bateman is dying of cancer and C. Thomas Howell and Jonathan Silverman go on a road trip with him? -- movies other than that one.
Television:
Venture Brothers, Star Trek with special consideration given to Deep Space Nine, Dexter, 'Allo 'Allo, Spongebob, I Dream of Jeannie, MGM Parade, The Two of Us, Magnum P.I., The Office, Simon and Simon, syndicated crime dramas like Columbo, Law & Order, Monk, Psych, House, West Wing reruns, X-Files, cooking shows, Battlestar Galactica, Full Metal Alchemist, FLCL, The Wonderful World of Disney, The Colbert Report, many ridiculous Krofft properties, Love American Style, vintage game shows, Wonder Woman, The A Team, I think I realize that I prefer hour-long episodic programming to half-hour shows with only a handful of exceptions
Books:
Edward Gorey, Michael Chabon, S.J. Perelman, Rilke, James Joyce, Dave Eggers, Billy Collins, Calef Brown, Ursula LeGuin, Dostoevsy, Julia Kristeva, Douglas Adams, Haruki Murakami, Dang!, Jordan Crane, biographies, psychology, literary criticism, Donna Tartt, The Phantom Tollbooth, Optic Nerve, history, WWII, elitist admission: difficult reading makes me feel smart, less elitist admission: I read Star Trek novels
Heroes:
Admiring people is so gauche these days.