comic books, interesting music, philosophy, tumor-initiating cells, tennis, beer, mystical texts, adeno-associated viruses, trader joe's, indian food, bronchio-alveolar stem cells, pipetting...TOTAL PROTONIC REVERSAL
Beatles, Beach Boys, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Flaming lips, Eagle*Seagull, Broken Social Scene, Sonic Youth, Fiery Furnaces, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, Caribou, Talking Heads, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Of Montreal, The Shins, Olivia Tremor Control, The Zombies, Donnovan, David Byrne, Brian Eno, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, Belle and Sebastian, sooo many others.
Squid and the Whale, comic book adaptations in general, Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Wes Anderson stuff, The Graduate... i don't really want to list all the films i've enjoyed over the years
The Office (both), The Venture Brothers, Curb your Enthusiasm, Entourage, The Tick, TWIN PEAKS so very much, Seinfeld, Carnivale, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, Arrested Development, The State, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, Home Movies, Stella, Heroes, South Park
The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Animal Man, The Long Halloween, Timequake, Confederacy of Dunces, Candide, Canterbury Tales, Honest to God, Kierkegaard: Either / Or, Fear and Trembling, Unscientific Postscript; Der Antichrist, The Geneaology of Morality, Augustine's Confessions, Erec et Enide, The Consolation of Philosophy, The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor, The Dark Knight Returns, Breakfast of Champions, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, The Essential Tillich, The Sandman series, The Watchmen... others
anyone who tries their damndest to act unselfishly in spite of any good reason to do so.Also, the Green Lantern is the greatest superhero ever.