Bad Badtz Maru, boxing, Buster Keaton, comics…er, graphic novels, Coney Island (Early 1900s), Edward Gorey, family & friends, Frida Kahlo, hockey (Go Wings), Indie 103.1, Jeet Kune Do & Savate, L.A. artists, London UK, Mac computers, Niagara (Detroit artist), old radio (e.g., Jack Benny), plays (e.g., David Mamet, August Wilson), progressive politics, small business, Soviet-era memorabilia, sushi & sake, video games on my PS2, volunteer work, yoga & qi gong
I'm ten years late to the Chris Morris game but better late than never.And of course, Mr. Maurice Moss
At the Drive-In, Arcade Fire, Bauhaus, Big Band Era (e.g., Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington), Billy Bragg, Bob Mould, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Danzig, Electric Six, Eminem, Frank Black, Guns N' Roses, Interpol, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Ladytron, Leonard Cohen, Liz Lysinger, LL Cool J, Metallica, Misfits, Morrissey, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Old Crow Medicine Show, Otis Redding, Patsy Cline, Peter Murphy, Radiohead, Rammstein, Run DMC, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sleater-Kinney, Swollen Members, Talking Heads, The Clash, The Cure, The Faint, The Holy Fire & Nick Marko's solo work, The Kinks, The Magnetic Fields, The Pixies, The Pogues, The Sex Pistols, The Sisters of Mercy, The Smiths, The White Stripes, Tom Waits, trashybootylicious hip-hop/funk to shake it to, Wilco
2001: A Space Odyssey, A History of Violence, Akira Kurasawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Alien & Aliens, Ashes and Diamonds, Blue Velvet, Breaker Morant, Casablanca, Coen Brothers, Death Race 2000, Die Hard, Duck Soup, Dumbo, Eve's Bayou, Evil Dead & Army of Darkness, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, Female Trouble, High Noon, Hot Fuzz & Shaun of the Dead, Jaws, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Luis Bunuel, M. Night Shyamalan, Manhunter, Metropolis & M, Modern Times & City Lights, Neil LaBute, Punch Drunk Love, Raging Bull, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Robocop, Session 9, Star Wars & Empire & Jedi, Steamboat Bill Jr. & The General, Strike!, Sunset Boulevard, The Godfather 1 & 2, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Loved One, The Matrix, The Road Warrior, The Seventh Seal, The Thing (Carpenter), Track 29 & Don't Look Now, Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch), Withnail & I, Woody Allen, Y Tu Mama Tambien
Current: BBC World News, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives, Entourage, Jeopardy, PBS travel shows, South Park, The Daily Show/Colbert Report, The IT Crowd, The Office (US), The Simpsons, Ugly Betty, Old: A History of Britain, Alan Partridge, 'Allo 'Allo, Anything by Chris Morris, Blackadder, Coupling, Cowboy Bebop, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, Jeeves and Wooster, Kids in the Hall, Monty Python, Mr. Show, Oz, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, The Office (UK), The Young Ones, Trigun
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, Alan Moore, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, David Sedaris, Douglas Adams, EC Comics (e.g., Tales from the Crypt), Edgar Allen Poe, Frank Miller, Geek Love - Katherine Dunn, Graham Greene, Harry Potter, Jhonen Vasquez, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, Life and Loves of a She-Devil - Fay Weldon, Lobster Boy, Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov, Lord of the Flies - William Golding, Main Street - Sinclair Lewis, Misquoting Jesus - Bart Ehrman, Neil Gaiman, Neuromancer - William Gibson, Nonfiction (e.g., WWII, religion), Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (I cry every time), Ray Bradbury, Red Dragon - Thomas Harris, Ripliad by Patricia Highsmith, Stephen King, The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen, The Joke - Milan Kundera, The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham, The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
People who stand up for their beliefs and act on their principles, no matter what the consequences. Unless their beliefs go against mine. Then screw them.