live music, WNYC, gin martinis, beer, bourbon, shoes, jeans, cheese, meat, science, my dog Doris, Minnesota Twins, all things and people Midwestern
cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sacks of monkey shit! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?Jason Ball and Ari Techner.
Joanna Newsom, Ratatat, Regina Spektor, Sunset Rubdown, BBQ, Les Sexareenos, Amy Winehouse, Man Man, Islands, old Bonnie Raitt, Clem Snide, Johnny Cash, Mazarin, WHY?, Spoon, Will Oldham, Cat Power, Tapes 'n Tapes, Love is All, Art Brut, The Fiery Furnaces, Fiona Apple, Crooked Fingers, Broken Social Scene, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, Patsy Cline, Castanets, Mel Gibson and the Pants, The Wrens, The Microphones, Andrew Bird, Mirah, Low, Whiskeytown, The Unicorns, The Band, Keren Ann, Blonde Redhead, Tom Waits, Dungen, Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, Archer Prewitt, The Buddyrevelles, Animal Collective, AC Newman, New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, My Brightest Diamond, Black Mountain, Tammi Camaro, etc etc
Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Magnolia, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, License to Drive, The Graduate, Almost Famous, Mulholland Drive
Twin Peaks, Jeopoardy, pretty much any Bravo reality show
Breakfast of Champions, Catcher in the Rye, Wind Up Bird Chronicle, The Fortress of Solitude, Morrison & Boyd, US Weekly (shut up)