i don't believe in beatles, i just believe in me.
a continuum of music, witty banter, urbanity, sarcasm, large words, correct punctuation, time travel, nostalgia, introversion, maintaining decorum, strong cocktails, the obscure, advocating the violent overthrow of popular trash culture, baseball, random thoughts/conversations, premiership soccer, beer, coffee, british culture, girls, pandas, girls who like pandas, magnum p.i. reruns, mustaches (both novelty and genuine), conspiracy theories, eschatology, antiziganism, enturbulation, punctilio, quantum physics, the universe, the end of the world, the quest for encyclopedic knowledge, the queen's english, sketch comedy
polymaths, writers, neurotics, artists, introverts, reclusive geniuses, child prodigies, eccentric billionaires, people lacking pretense.
Oh, and these dudes.
"talking about music is like dancing about architecture." - steve martin
pop! indiepop, bitpop, britpop, swedepop, power pop, dreampop, chamber pop, classic alternative, classic soul and funk, non-shitty electro, idm, mashups, new wave, shoegaze, garage, disco (italo and otherwise)
elvis costello, kleenex girl wonder, graham smith, the smiths, morrissey, the replacements, matthew herbert, husker du/sugar/bob mould, ben folds five, the clash, squeeze, the cure, destroyer, the psychedelic furs, xtc, jens lekman, justice, vitalic, mylo, air, devo, depeche mode, broken social scene, the lucy show, le concorde, kings of convenience, erlend oye, ariel pink, the clientele, the national, long winters, new order, gang of four, wire, the ramones, cocteau twins, siouxsie and the banshees, roxy music, the fixx, rjd2, the go! team, oingo boingo, echo and the bunnymen, prefab sprout, chameleons, russian futurists, eno, talking heads, lloyd cole, scritti politti, the sundays, the futureheads, belle and sebastian, the jam, jim o'rourke, abc, the ocean blue, islands, the new pornographers, the fucking champs, gary numan, daft punk, basement jaxx, phoenix, cassius, annie, aztec camera, peter gabriel, ratatat, cut copy, klaxons, mstrkrft, alan braxe & fred falke, girl talk, jacques lu cont, someone still loves you boris yeltsin, sally shapiro
stanley kubrick, pt anderson, wes anderson, martin scorsese, the coen brothers, mel brooks, john landis, robert altman, werner herzog, john hughes, kevin smith, bill murray, harold ramis, will ferrell, steve carell, peter sellers, burt reynolds
anchorman: the legend of ron burgundy, the big lebowski, blazing saddles, caddyshack, casino, there will be blood, fargo, fletch, ghostbusters, the back to the future trilogy, kill bill vol. 1 and 2, a clockwork orange, 2001: a space odyssey, fitzcarraldo, koyaanisqatsi, big trouble in little china, see you next wednesday
lost, the office, 30 rock, magnum p.i., curb your enthusiasm, intervention
britcoms, half of the programming on the discovery and history channels, specifically mythbusters, man vs. wild, the universe and shows about hitler.
vonnegut, salinger, kafka, bret easton ellis, steve martin, oscar wilde
compendiums of random knowledge, history books, theoretical nonfiction (nonfiction about theoretical events and scenarios, that is), true crime
steve martin, harold ramis, david letterman