popular culture, unpopular culture, bad weather, bleeding hearts, skinny wrists, science fiction, amazing finds at used record stores, wearing winter clothing in the summertime, 1940s elegance, 1950s notions of innocence, 1960s mod, 1970s glam rock, 1980s video games, 1990s grunge, traveling, chocolate as treatment for heartbreak, self-destruction, living in oblivion, 1980s sci-fi movies that feature teens living in post-apocalyptic urban settings, beautiful bruisers, bondage, breaking into abandoned buildings, camping it up, coffee, cold hearts, creepy alternative religions, cults, david cronenberg, disco pigs, dreams, ennui, experimental drug horror stories, fashion, fragility, fun with escapism, genderbending, glamour, graffiti, hybristophilia, icicles, independant film, insomnia, keytars, kittens, leopard print scarves, loophole how are you?, lucid dreaming, medical art facilities, narcolepsy, nerdy sweaters, photography, plastic surgery, queer cinema, ribcages, really tasty sushi, siamese twins, sleeping disorders, splatter horror, storms, street art, surreal beauty, synthesizers, tainted love, the romance of technology, twisted humor
Writers, artists, day-dreamers, contagious optimists, strangers with candy, muses, deviants, grotesque beauties, societal aliens, dance machines, vodka tasting party hosts, poetic masochists, photographers, music producers, librarians, comedians.
This is a list of all-time favorites, the first chunk being somewhat in order. I'm hesitant to list any new artists under "favorites" because I want my oppinion to stand the test of time (at least a year).
Black Books, Veronica Mars, Jam, Jaaaaam, Nip/Tuck, Starved, The Office (US +UK),Teachers (UK), Arrested Development, Masters of Horror, Degrassi (all of them), Queer As Folk (UK + US), Coupling (UK), 21 Jump Street, Out Of This World, Twin peaks, Freaks & Geeks, Wonderfalls, The L Word, Subterranean/120 Minutes, Freddy's Nightmares, almost anything on VH1 Classic (especially The Alternative) or on FTV (though I don't think we have that in the U.S.)
Namedropper & Thin Skin by Emma Forrest, everything by Nick Hornby, The Rules of Attraction (and almost everything else)by Bret Easton Ellis, Lolita by Nabokov, anything by Oscar Wilde, anything by William Gibson when i'm in the mood, Sarah by JT Leroy (heh), Christiane F., The Adrian Mole Diaries, Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill, Sex, Drugs, &; Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
Sometime I will update this with a full list of favorites..
Bernard Black