Culture, linguistics, advertising... things that make you think... art, movies, music, food and what-not
David Cross because he is the funniest person alive! or DAVID BLAINE because he is magic... for real!!!!
Modest Mouse, Pixies, Spoon, The Shins, Postal Service, Outkast, The Beatles, Elliot Smith, J5, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hot hot heat, Southern Culture on the Skids, Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Clap your hands say yeah, The Rapture, Metric, The Sounds, Wilco, Rufus Wainwright, Belle and Sebastian,, Antony and the Johnsons, Edith Piaf, The Smiths, Kings of convienence, the White Stripes, The Cure, The Delgados, the Moldy Peaches, Death Cab, The Sounds, Ani Difranco....
The Life Aquatic, A Very Long Engagement, Garden State, Love me if you Dare, FAHRENHEIT 9/11, the Royal Tenenbaums, Ameli, Bottle Rocket, Virgin Suicides, Freeway, Requiem for a Deam, Ghost World, Dogma, The Princess and the Warrior, Waking Life, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, the Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Lost in Translation. The Dreamers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Thank you for smoking, V for Vendetta, Junebug
Pushing Daises, the Daily Show for educational purposes, Nip/tuck and Gossip Girl for pure trash entertainment, Six Feet Under, most of my favorite shows end up getting cancelled like Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Home Movies....
Chuck Palahniuk, David Sedaris, and i really love Beat writers like Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsburg, william Burroughs, Richard Brautigan, Capote is also quite delightful.