The usual I guess ... hanging out w/friends, going to movies, reading, sitting alone in my messy one-bedroom apartment with the shades drawn and drinking. Actually, that last part isn't true. My apartment's a studio.
Jesus and Einstein ... wait, no ... I'm lying. Everyone says that.
In no particular order ... Bob Dylan (I like him young, old, acoustic, electric, hell I can even tolerate his mercifully short-lived born-again stuff. Favorite albums are probably Blood on the Tracks and Highway 61), Elvis Costello, The Beach Boys, The New Pornographers, The Pixies, Guided by Voices, The Heartless Bastards, Radiohead, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire, The Beatles (ever heard of them?), The Rolling Stones (particularly when they were on smack), Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Darkness, CCR, Tom Petty, The Breeders, Yo La Tengo, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, The Ramones, Stevie Wonder, The Cribs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Death Cab, Tegan and Sara, Social Distortion, Prince, Teenage Fanclub, Beastie Boys, Toadies, Weezer, Sleater-Kinney, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails, Liz Phair, Cheap Trick, R.E.M., Smokey Robinson, The Police, The Jackson Five, Neil Young, Tom Jones, Foo Fighters, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Elliot Smith, The Flaming Lips, The Kinks, Violent Femmes, The Decemberists, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams, Queens of the Stone Age, The Velvet Underground, U2, Lavender Diamond
I'm gonna be a total nerd and start with the silent era ... Sunrise, City Lights, The General, Modern Times, Intolerance, M, Nosferatu, Ivan the Terrible ... and now the talkies ... Duck Soup, Sullivan's Travels, His Girl Friday, To Be or Not to Be, The Lady Eve, It Happened One Night, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Casablanca, Citizen Kane (controversial choice, I know), Third Man, The Trial (welles version), Red River, Notorious, Psycho, Vertigo, Rope, His Girl Friday, Snow White, Rio Bravo, Roman Holiday, Singin’ in the Rain, The Searchers, Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole, Sweet Smell of Success, Touch of Evil, All About Eve, Pickup on South Street, Underworld U.SA., The Apartment, Some Like it Hot, On the Waterfront, Written on the Wind, Imitation of Life ... Now for the foreign movies ... La Strada, The Bicycle Thief, I Vitelloni, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, Breathless, My Life to Live, Masculine Feminine, Band of Outsiders, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Wages of Fear, Diabolique, Smiles of a Summer Night, Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Persona, Scenes From a Marriage, Cries and Whispers, Los Olvidados, Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Floating Weeds, Tokyo Story, Blow Up, Last Tango in Paris, The Conformist ... And now everything else ... Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Five East Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens, Carnal Knowledge, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Being There, Last Picture Show, MASH, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville, Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, Godfather 1 and 2, The Conversation, French Connection, The Exorcist, Apocalypse Now, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull,Butch Cassidy, The Sting, The Wild Bunch, Badlands, Days of Heaven, This is Spinal Tap, Bananas, Animal House, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Big, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands and Wives, Bullets Over Broadway, Deconstructing Harry, American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters, Blow Out, Amadeus, Indiana Jones (all three), ET, Melvin and Howard, Do the Right Thing, The Decalogue, The Red, White, and Blue trilogy, Blue Velvet, Something Wild, Paris Texas, Platoon, Casualties of War, The Big Red One, After Hours, Wall Street, Working Girl, Broadcast News, Parenthood, LA Story, Stranger Than Paradise, Back to the Future 1 and 2, Goodfellas, Aladdin, Malcolm X, Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Terminator 1 and 2, Die Hard trilogy, Lethal Weapon, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, A Few Good Men, The Player, Short Cuts, Schindler’s List, Dazed and Confused, Ed Wood, Chasing Amy, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, Leaving Las Vegas, The Big Lebowski, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, Flirting with Disaster, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wet Hot American Summer, Citizen Ruth, Election, Sideways, Boys Don’t Cry, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Lost in Translation, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tanenbaums, City of God, Donnie Darko, Anchorman, 40 Year Old Virgin, Head On, Squid and the Whale, ETC.
Simpsons, Seinfeld, Larry Sanders Show, Mr. Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, The Office (both versions), Conan, Arrested Development.
The Great Gatsby (I mean it's got "great" right there in the title), Huck Finn, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Iceman Cometh (okay, technically those are plays), Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay, American Pastoral, The Corrections, Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Brief Interviews w/Hideous Men, Consider the Lobster, Oblivion, Winesburg Ohio, Lolita, Pale Fire, Absalom Absalom, Calvin and Hobbes collection, The Trial, The Centaur, White Noise
Superman, Batman, Wonderwoman, etc.