Chess, Music, Skateboarding, Conspiracy Theories, Nutty Belief Systems (ie Scientology, Astrology et al), Literary Theory, Shakespeare, Babies, Skepticism, Reality Television, TiVo, Manual Pads, Devolution, Deconstructionalisticisms, Music Trivia, Mozzarella Sticks, Gadgets, Futurism and Science Fiction
Dinner Party: Phil Dick, Freud, Darwin, Hendrix, Miles, and....
Hog Lady, The Jesus Lizard, Jim O'Rourke, Palace Music, Magnolia Electric Company, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Beethoven, The Smiths, Love & Rockets, The Melvins, Black Sabbath, Earth, Steel Pole Bathtub, Cocteau Twins, Hendrix, Low, Funkadelic, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Glrnaap, Bauhaus, Monster Magnet (Spine of God!), Four Horse, Public Enemy, The Pharcyde, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Eric Dolphy, Philip Glass, The Vapors, Six Finger Satelitte, Trans Am, Devo, Tom Petty, Zappa/Beefheart (Bongo Fury!), Fugazi, Zeni Geva, Air, Dali's Car, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Flaming Lips. I could go on and on...
Blade Runner, Taxi Driver, Spinal Tap, Vernon Florida, The Graduate, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Maltese Falcon, Star Wars (all of 'em), Star Trek, The Search for Animal Chin, Logan's Run, Starship Troopers, CQ, Vanilla Sky, Barjo, All the Mamet pictures, Harold and Maude, Lost Skeleton of Cadavera, The Golem, American Psycho, any good poker/gambling movie.
Degrassi Jr High and Degrassi High, Lost, The Office, Buck Rogers, The Daily Show, Bringing Home Baby, Star Trek TNG, House Hunters, Property Ladder, any really bad reality show, Jeopardy, The Soup, Threshold, Washington Week, The McLaughlin Group, The Newshour, WKRP in Cinncinati (why don't they show reruns of this!), NeXt, The Simpsons (of course).
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Great Gatsby, Valis, Hamlet (ok, not a book), Flowers for Algernon, Frankenstein, The Sun Also Rises, The Waste Land (ok, also not a book), Norton Anthologies, If On A Winter's Night, A Traveler, Difficult Loves, I Am Alive and You Are Dead, almost anything by Philip K. Dick, especially A Scanner Darkly, Dr Bloodmoney, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Slaughterhouse Five, American Psycho, 1984.
John Cardiel, Stanley Fish, Jacques Derrida, Freud, Darwin, Philip K. Dick, Natas.