Smoking, doing things that make me want to quit smoking, recently soccer(played poorly), whitewater rafting, basketball(also unimpressively executed), watching baseball, drinking while bitching about everyday life, eating stuff, pretending to be an environmentalist, determining how the Pixies have affected all modern music
Malcolm Gladwell, Robert McNamara, Mike Davis, Thom Yorke, Ira Glass, Diego Maradona, David Milch, Cornell West, bell hooks, JP Sartre, and Toonces the driving cat.
Pixies, Radiohead, Leonard Cohen, The Pogues, DJ Shadow, Air, Paul Simon, Tricky, P-Funk, Hieroglyphics, Junior Senior, Otis Redding, Journey(at least I admitted it), Dr. Octagon, Yo La Tengo, Otis Redding, The Streets
Fight Club, Bamboozled, Bull Durham, DiG!, Dogville, The Sting, anything by P.T. Anderson, Network, Fog of War, I Heart Huckabees, anything by Spike Lee, Infernal Affair, Big Fish, anything by Richard Linklater (but NOT the Bad News Bears remake), Garden State, Philadephia Story, The Corporation, anything written by Charlie Kaufman, Before Sunrise, Last Days of Disco
Sports Night(fuck you ABC), Deadwood, Lost, Ali G, West Wing(fuck you John Wells), Simpsons, Carnivale(fuck you HBO), Scrubs, Arrested Development(fuck you FOX)
The Known World, Cadillac Desert, Travels with Charley, Scanner Darkly, Nickled and Dimed, Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Tipping Point, The Stranger, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Culture of Fear, Lonesome Dove, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Hitchhikers Guide, Johnathan Livingston Seagull