Professional nerd in San Diego. I'm not hip, but I know people who know people who are.
Obscure music, live music, dinner parties, bocce, dark beer, red wine, movies, pulp sci-fi and fantasy novels, coffee shops, sleeeping in, news, KC Style BBQ, cooking, spicy food, politics, economics, international affairs, arguing, travel, free wireless internet, home recording, guitar modification, mix CDs, arts & crafts bungelows, chess, trivia, web comics, irony, sarcasm
Suicide girls, beer snobs, liberals, moderates, conservatives that can be brought to the side of truth, Stuart Murdoch, Bill Clinton
Belle and Sebastian, Elliot Smith, REM, Radiohead, Iron & Wine, Chisel, Mogwai, Sebadoh, Wilco, Sun Volt, Old 97s, Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Broken Social Scene, The Pixies, The Shins, Smashing Pumpkins, Television, The Decemberists, The Walkmen, Jonathan Fire*Eater, Joy Division, David Bowie, Neil Young, Nirvana, The Delgados, The Thrills, DJ Shadow, Jurrasic 5, Heatmiser, XTC, The Feelies, The Go-Betweens, New Pornographers, The Postal Service, Clem Snide, Death Cab for Cutie, Billy Bragg, Rilo Kiley, The Arcade Fire, Elvis Costello, Liars, The North Atlantic, My Bloody Valentine, The Lucksmiths, The Physics of Meaning, Matt Pond PA, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Supergrass, Blur, Ballboy, Wire, Interpol, Norfolk & Western, The Beatles, The Who, Rolling Stones, Brian Eno, Guided By Voices, The Frankfurt School, The Constentines, The Secret Machines, Galaxie 500, Yo La Tengo, Stereolab, The Unicorns, Luna, Talking Heads, The Constentines, My Morning Jacket, The Chemical Brothers, Refrigerator, Clean, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Waking Up With Robots, Franklin for Short, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., Jets to Brazil, Metric, Wolf Parade, Bob Dylan, Stars, The Gilded Age (http://www.the-gilded-age.com)
Chinatown, Starwars, Monty Python, Memento, Secretary, Time Bandits, Brazil, Rushmore, Saved, Fahrenheit 9/11, LOTR, Fletch, Airplane I and II, Top Secret, Clerks, Mallrats, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 2, Bullit, Cool Hand Luke, The Great Escape, The French Connection, Waking Life, Dazed and Confused, Royal Tannenbaums, Slacker, Being John Malkovich, Alien(s), Three Colors (Red, White, Blue), Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Amelie, The Station Agent, Barcelona, Kicking and Screaming, Dr. Strangelove, Taxi Driver, The Untouchables,
Tour de France, NBA, NFL, NCAA basketball, World Series of Poker, Chapelle's Show, Daily Show, Colbert Report, South Park, Good Eats, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, CNN, ESPN 8 "the ocho", World Cup, Overhaulin, The Office, My Name is Earl, Battlefield Britain,
Vonnegut (anything, but esp. Slaughterhouse 5), Neal Stephenson (cryptonomicon, quicksilver), Kafka (the Trial, Metamorphasis), Milan Kundera (anything), George R.R. Martin, Salinger (Catcher in the Rye), Ian Flemming (any 007 book), Norton Juster (Phantom Tollbooth),
FDR, George Brett, Steve McQueen, Bill Murray, MLK, my parents