Abandon building, urban decay, social structure, appropriation, things forgotten, sad dads, romantic comedy, Bodie CA, Painting from the 1890s, remembering beaches much more fondly then they deserve.
People who are not too much cooler then me. People who don't html out their myspace page. People who don't know how to lie to me. Anyone who knows what happened to Daddy in his Deep Sleep.
Carl
Michio Kaku
and these guys
Band of Horses, Bjork, Bran Van 3000, Brittle Stars, Carissa's Wierd, Centro-Matic, The Contours, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Daddy in his Deep Sleep, Debbie Dean, Lesley Gore, The Long Winters, Eddie Holland, Brenda Holloway, Joe Jackson, Lewis, Lulu, Meatloaf, Melanie, Midlake, Moonbabies, Moxy Früvous, Okkervil River, Rivulets, Rush, The Seekers, Shearwater, Dusty Springfield, Barrett Strong, The Three Degrees, Unbunny, Ween, Mary Wells, Shannon Wright, My Bad, I really want to like Campfire Girls but they've only ever been able to write one good song.
Blazing Saddles, Chances Are, Cherish, Clue, Dancer in the Dark, Donnie Darko, Labyrinth, Henry Fool, Ivan’s XTC,Nights of Cabiria, Space Camp, Roman Holiday, Talk to Her, This is Spinal Tap, Young Frankenstein
The Big Bang Theory, The Venture Brothers, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, News Radio, Quantum Leap (even though I apparently don't love it enough to understand the end of the series), The Closer, Top Chef, Lost.
1,000-Mile Summer, Fountainhead, Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Richard Misrach's Golden Gate, River Teeth, Spring Snow, Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
Lebbeus Woods, Tibor Kalman, Nikola Tesla