making people laugh, writing, drawing, graphics, painting, bookmaking, watching movies (especially ..aries or low-budget indies), brushing my teeth, beating people at 80's trivia games, wearing flip flops, reading, collage, randomness, listening to music in my car, co-hosting radio shows, being in love, playing the tambourine, helping friends with relationship issues, mexican food, sushi, sarcasm, searching for giant squid, hiking, biking, white water rafting, TRAVELING, not motorcycling, hugging and kissing.
Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Zach Galifianakis, Craig Ferguson, Janeane Garofolo, Parker Posey, Beck, Tracy Ullman, Mike Meyers, Sarah Silverman, Johnny Depp, Maggie Gyllenhaal, the inventor of the Hot Pocket, Paula Scher, Quentin Tarantino, guys with receding hairlines, William Shatner, people who actually enjoy KJLS, the monkey on your back and Sofia Coppola.
air, arcade fire, alkaline trio, fiona apple, AH HA, tori amos, asobi seksu, audioslave, badly drawn boy, DAVID BAZAN, BAND OF HORSES, beatles, ben folds, BECK, belle and sebastian, pat benetar, BEN FOLDS FIVE, andrew bird, frank black, BLONDIE, BRIGHT EYES, brmc, bush, blood brothers, blonederedhead, bloc party, david bowie, johnny cash, cat power, cake, chemical bros, chinese stars, CHRIS CORNELL, COLDPLAY, the cranberries, DDIHC, the darkness, dandy warhols, death cab for cutie, deftones, denali, depeche mode, decemberists, doves, DURAN DURAN, eisley, the elected, the eels, enon, ENYA, the faint, feeder, feist, ella fitzgerald, flaming lips, foo fighters, fugees (shutup), franz ferdinand, garbage, go!team, GIANT DRAG, guster, ben harper, harry connick jr, head automatica, HLC, hot hot heat, INTERPOL, incubus (before they went tits up), idlewild, I&W, IVY, jurassic 5, jimmy eat world, ELTON JOHN, JACK JOHNSON, KILL BILL VOL 1&2 soundtracks, the killers (love/hate), keane, kaiser chiefs, love is all, libertines, AIMEE MANN, kylie minogue, bette midler (again, shutup), minus the bear, joni mitchell, MODEST MOUSE, muse, my hotel year, NADA SURF, the notwist, oasis, ok go, oh no! oh my!, outkast, paloalto, phantom planet, PEDRO THE LION, PHOENIX, PIXIES, POLYPHONIC SPREE, THE PRETENDERS, THE POSTAL SERVICE, q and not u, QUEEN (my all-time favorite band), RADIOHEAD, raveonettes, razorlight, rilo kiley, rolling stones, the shins, THE SOUNDS, SPARTA, smashing pumpkins, spinto band, SPOON, sublime, SIGUR ROS, snow patrol, sahara hotnights, scissor sisters, ELLIOT SMITH, smoking popes, THE STARS, the strokes, sufjan stevens, MARIA TAYLOR, tenacious D, the thrills, tom petty and the heartbreakers, john vanderslice, von bondies, butch walker, WEEZER, the walkmen, WOLF PARADE, pete yorn, the zombies...
SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER, About Schmidt, Young Frankenstein, Donnie Darko, Conspiracy Theory, Cinema Paradiso, Shakespeare in Love, Romeo and Juliet, Amelie, Empire Records, Moulin Rouge, Great Expectations, Kissing Jessica Stein, Home For the Holidays, Trainspotting, Day of the Triffids, Postcards From the Edge, Edward Scissorhands, Dawn of the Dead, Fried Green Tomatoes, Seven, The Ring, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Some Like it Hot, Grumpier Old Men, Garden State, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Lost In Translation, The Virgin Suicides, Fight Club, Hearts in Atlantis, Tommy Boy, The Shining, The Graduate, The Leprechaun (all of them, hilarious), Sense and Sensibility, Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, High Fidelity, Waynes World 1 & 2, Childs Play, Jerry Maguire, Party Girl, Shawshank Redemption, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Reality Bites, Sideways, Lovely and Amazing, Little Miss Sunshine, Oh in Ohio, Stranger than Fiction, Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic, Strangers with Candy (the movie)...
STRANGERS WITH CANDY, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks(before they cancelled them, bastards), Undeclared, The Office, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, pretty much anything on Adult Swim, THE SOPRANOS, Sex and The City, Entourage, The Daily Show, COLBERT REPORT, Cold Case Files, NOT LAGUNA BEACH, American Justice, PRIMETIME WITH JIMMINY GLICK, SNL (back in the good ol' days), COMEDIANS OF COMEDY, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Golden Girls, CSI, LATE NITE WITH ZACH (thank god for youtube.com), THE SARAH SILVERMAN PROGRAM, WEEDS, BOSTON LEGAL...
The Cheese Monkeys (chip kidd...every graphic design student should read) I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (amy sedaris...my comedic hero) Wigfield (amy sedaris, stephen colbert, paul dinello...ridiculously funny) Everybody Poops (taro gomi...very insightful) Holidays on Ice, Barrel Fever and Naked (david sedaris...need i say more) The Road Less Traveled and People of the Lie (m. scott peck...very helpful) Microserfs (douglas coupeland...you were right mr. smith, a must-read) Shopgirl (steve martin...sincere and funny). obviously i'm a big fan of non-fiction. How To Be Good (nick hornby...insightful and humorous) anything NOT by Bill O'Reiley, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity or any other uber-conservative FUCK.
Everyone who has moved me by words or actions to change something about myself for the better. The list is too damn long to type out.