music, books, comedy, beer, coffee, tea, spicy food, cities and their dive bars, pop culture, cop-show snobbery, saltines, biking, cardigans, oxford shirts, blazers, angst, rubber bands, evocative weather
Jarvis Cocker, David Patrick Kelly and Lester Freamon
Pulp, The Kinks, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Who, Blur, Neil Finn, Neko Case, Neil Young, The Replacements, Roxy Music, XTC, Elvis Costello, Big Star, X, Jon Brion, The Band, Wilco, Rilo Kiley, Nick Lowe, Quasi, John Coltrane, Randy Newman, Steely Dan, Art Brut, Charles Mingus, The dB's, Fairport Convention/Richard Thompson, Jellyfish, Jason Falkner, The Rolling Stones, The Bee Gees, Supergrass, Cheap Trick, Ted Leo, The Velvets, Teenage Fanclub
Shoot the Piano Player, The Warriors, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wet Hot American Summer, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Big Lebowski, Quick Change, Jaws, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sideways, Anatomy of a Murder, The Third Man, Touch of Evil, Blow Out, Brick, The Wicker Man, The Ice Harvest
The Wire, Arrested Development, Lost, Project Runway, The Daily Show, South Park, Seinfeld, NewsRadio, Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, MST3K, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Conan O'Brien, The State, 30 Rock, The Office (UK and US)
I've been getting into detective/crime/noir fiction lately. Always up for a good rock book too. (Favorites: Robert Gordon's It Came From Memphis and Andy Miller's Village Green Preservation Society book) I also like fiction writers such as Chabon, Updike, Woolf, etc. And the occasional sensibly minded lefty harangue.