Music:
in a recent playlist: a band of bees, AFI, adam & the ants, the ark, art brut, B-52's, bad religion, behavior, beulah, billy bragg, black 47, buck, the clash, the coral, cayote shivers, cub, cut copy, d generation, the decemberists, dee-lite, doves, dramarama, the epoxies, the figgs, the figurines, flesh for lulu, the format, ghostland observatory, housemartins, husky rescue, incredible moses leroy, islands, jens lekman, les sans culottes, less than jake, little ones, arterciopelados, magnapop, me first and the gimme gimmes, mike tarantino, palomar, the pipettes, pixies, ramones, say hi to your mom, shout out louds, sleater-kinney, social distortion, spoon, ted leo, tmbg, tsar, vibrators, x
Movies:
delicatessen, LA story, the big lebowski, rushmore, lots of lynch, run lola run, amelie, say anything, princess bride, heathers, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, trainspotting, raising arizona, real genius, my blue heaven, buckaroo banzai, beetlejuice, mystery men, iron giant, air guitar nation
Television:
twin peaks, buffy, dr who, the prisoner, project runway, star trek, south park
Books:
confederacy of dunces, on food and cooking: science and lore of the kitchen, the moon is a harsh mistress, on the road, tristam shandy, fup, surely you're joking, mr. feynman!, skinny legs and all, amazing adventures of cavalier and clay, the whole oz series, mort, gentlemen prefer blonds, high fidelity...