The Chicago Cubs, American poetry, buying cheap accessories, collecting random barware, Indian food, postcards, shoes that aren't wedges, playing croquet, thinking about Canada. And Tuesday afternoons.
Madeleine Albright, Jay-Z, John Cusack, and anyone cool.
Andrew Bird, Sigur Ros, Elliott Smith, M83, Jay-Z, Radiohead, The Shins, Portishead, Jurassic 5, The Spinto Band, Missy Elliot, Stars, Cat Stevens, Kelly Clarkson.
L'Auberge espagnole, Spy Game, Boondock Saints, La turbulence des fluides, Le Confessional, Gladiator, Batman Begins, anything with Jon Favreau (yes, including Elf), The Sting, L.A. Confidential. And all 3 Indiana Jones movies.
I can get addicted to any show available on DVD. But no, Tyler, that doesn't mean I want to watch 90210 with you.
Stuff by Thomas Friedman, because I am an awesome nerd. Also Frank O'Hara, Jeffrey Sachs, Carolyn Kizer and Nicholas Kristof. And VOX by Nicholson Baker.