BIBLE, GOD, JESUS of NAZARETH... Kieslowski, Rohmer, Allen, Godard, Takeshi, Bergman's films. IPOD. Bukowski, e.e.cummings, Byron's poems. Friend's Bookstore. The 80's. Tragic comedies. Anti-heroes. Showtime Boxing. Cheever, Updike, Carver, Barthelme, Chekhov, Borges's short stories. Beating the house odds at Craps. Western Philosophy. UFC. Edward Gorey. Writing. Rothko's paintings. Ayn Rand's manifestos. Tom Wolfe's essays. Paul Johnson, Allan and Harold Bloom's intellect. Lenhert Green's card magic. The Dog Whisperer. Jungian and birth order psychology. Underdogs. Flaws. Virtues. Tragic characters. Flash animation. Ware, Clowes, Moore's comics. Bi-Partisan Politics. Buffalo Wings, Pho, Sushi, Chili Burgers, Red Stripe Beer. Starbuck's Machiato. Peet's latte. Faking jazz or rock guitar. Unpretentious people. Telemundo.
God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit (in form). Eve. Martin Scorsese. Harold Bloom. Dennis Prager. John Updike. Beat Takeshi
Yo La Tengo, M83, Luna, Belle and Sebastian, Galaxy500, The Magnetic Fields, My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon, The Flaming Lips, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Mogwai, Grandaddy, The Wrens, The Microphones, Roger Moon, Dinosaur Jr, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, The Jayhawks, Interpol, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, U2, Taking Back Sunday, The Get Up Kids, Saves The Day, Suzanne Vega, Ricky Lee Jones, Abra Moore, The Hollies, Styx, The Who, The Beatles, The Stones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Caetano Veloso, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, Bird, John Coltrane, Luiz Bonfa, Bill Evans, Afrika Bambaattaa & the Soul Sonic Force, The Roots, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Erik Satie, Beethoven, Claude Debussy Wagner, Phillip Glass, and oh...Rebelde.
FOREIGN: Kieslowski's Color Trilogy, The Double Life of Veronique, Persona, Contempt, Jules Et Jim, 400 Blows, The State of Things, Il Postino, Fireworks, Habla Con Ella, All About My Mother, The Kung Fu Hustle, Happy Together, In The Mood For Love, Eric Rohmer's Morale Tales, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Breathless, A Band Apart, L'Avventura, The Knack, Snatch, Shawn of The Dead.
DOMESTIC: A Woman Under The Influence, The Graduate, Buffalo '66, The Godfather Trilogy, All About Eve, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Election, Boogie Nights, Rushmore, The Royal Tannenbaums, Adaptation, Casablanca, Harold & Maude, Julien Donkey Boy, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotlessmind, Lost In Translation, Deer Hunter, Touch Of Evil, Psycho, Raging Bull, Good Fellas, Pulp Fiction, Jaws, E.T., Omen, Rocky I, Woody Allen's Pre -79 Films.
ANIMATION: Iron Giant, The Fox and The Hound, Beauty and The Beast, A Ghost In The Shell, The Incredibles, A Charlie Brown Christmas.
INDULGENCE: Any Marx Brothers Film, Rocky III-V, Master of The Flying Guillotine, Any Peter Seller Film, Sixteen Candles, The Lost Boys.
Lost, The Office (BBC), Ali-G show, Discovery, History Channel, Dateline, VH1 80's & 90's, The Dog Whisperer. Animal Planet. Showtime Boxing. Scare Tatics. TBN movies. Infomercial greats of Tony Little (the Gazelle exercise equipment).
FICTION: Middlemarch, The Catcher in the Rye, Atlas Shrugged, Notes From the Underground, Madame Bovary, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth, Death In Venice, Old Man Goriot, Far From the Maddening Crowd, The Great Gatsby. Rabbit Run installments. Trust Me. Couples. The Ground Beneath Her Feet. White Noise.
NON-FICTION: The Bible, Intellectuals, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Kings I&II, Euthyphro, Thinking For the Second Time, Mere Christianity, Mindhunter, My Life in Art, The Art of War, Idiot's Guide to Craps.
PLAYS: Othello, Perestroika, The Rhinoceros, The Glass Managerie, Glengary Glen Ross, Blithe Spirit, Death & The Maiden, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya.