writing, wandering/exploring, cats, rain, rooftops, woods, mountains, Eclipse Phase, Japanese culture, Chinese history + current events, French anything, taking pictures of street art, predicting the future (with sci-fi, not tarot cards), leftish politics, the nigh-impossible search for good Mexican food in Boston, hoppy fucking beer, wine of the red sort, oulipos, languages, people watching, fashion, analog synthesis, anglo-saxon+celtic art & culture, artificial intelligence, Burning Man, cheese, drinky dancing in darkened bars, diseases, dreams, electric bass, esoterica, Firefly, folklore, graphic design, great lakes, green, insects, industrial design, magical realism, paranoid systems, philology, physics, pie, rain, robots, rooftops, scandinavia, space exploration, spiders, staying out late, strategy games, typography, veggie/piscatarian cooking, hiking, Swiss Army knives
Time travelers from the future.
the Pixies, Frank Black, J.S. Bach, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Johnny Cash, Cranes, the Cure, the Faint, Clinic, the Hives, Iszoloscope, Covenant, Freezepop, the Dresden Dolls, Devotchka, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Rasputina, Massive Attack, Roots Menuva, MIA, Mimetic, Four Tet, Monolith, the Sugarcubes/Bjork, Amon Tobin, Radiohead, Dead Prez, Tricky, the Vines, the Arcade Fire, Re:Agent, Alec Redfearn, Reverend Glasseye, Prospero, the Murder City Devils, Offwhyte, :wumpscut:, Icelandic wailing (Sigur Ros, Mum), TMBG, Mission of Burma, Lard, Gogol Bordello, Squarepusher, The Cramps, The Cure, Bowie, Dresden Dolls, Death in Vegas, April March, Wire, Golem
Bleu, Jean-Luc Godard, anything Guy Ritchie (Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels), the Coen Brothers (Milller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski), Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Coffee & Cigarettes, Ghost Dog), Hero, Crouching Tiger, Pi, Memento, Insomnia, Kama Sutra, The Terrorist, Se7en, House of Flying Daggers, Serenity, usually Tim Burton (though he's been a bit off his game lately), Takashi Miike (Audition, Visitor Q, Ichi the Killer), Ninja Scroll
Don't watch it, but some things are worth watching on DVD. Things that have been known to blow my skirt up include: Twin Peaks, Cowboy Bebop, Farscape, Firefly, Aqua Teen Hungerforce, Hellsing, Lain, Angel, Invader Zim, Samurai Champloo
Gravity's Rainbow, Schismatrix, Man in the High Castle, Vineland, Borges, Vurt, Illuminatus, William S. Burroughs, Eileen Gunn, Tatterhood, GRRM, Ken MacLeod, Harry Mathews, Margaret Atwood, Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen), Elisabeth Vonarburg, Jonathan Strange & Mister Norrell, The Four Agreements, Robert Zubrin
Comics: the Invisibles, Preacher, Enki Bilal
Mom & Dad, Dr. Quentin Young, Studs Terkel, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward R. Murrow, the EFF, Charles Goodyear (developer of the vulcanization process), Frank Black, Robert Zubrin