arts, sciences, usage, progress, tolerance, sensual indulgence, superlatives, the crisper drawer, memes, halves, the left, dorkdom
hot, cool, and dorky
jim o'rourke and his myriad incarnations, the once legendary steve albini, post rock (a la thrill jockey), math rock (slint), depression rock (modest mouse), wimp rock (microphones), diatribe rock (the fall), soul-baring rock (xiu xiu), rock 'n soul (hall & oates), laptop (fennesz), idm (boards of canada), blip-hop (prefuse 73), free jazz (ornette coleman), hard bop (mingus), minimalism (steve reich)...
blade runner, a clockwork orange, 2001, holy grail, seven samurai, the seventh seal, evil dead 2, xanadu, annie hall
poop
salinger, vonnegut, hesse, dostoevsky, twain, dick, the divine comedy, man and superman (act 3 at least), dune, a brief history of time, neuromancer, the ugly american, harper's, the atlantic...