Politics, pop culture, literature, film, philosophy, serial killers, not having children, not getting married, conversation, argumentation, puppies and snakes. Drinking. Drinking black and tans. Drinking whisky. Eating. A lot.
Dictators (Eastern European preferably, but will settle for North African), assholes, people I don't want to punch, radical intellectuals, conservative intellectuals, raccoons and Tilda Swinton. Also, anyone who is funny and likes to make fun of people. Including me.
Weezer, The Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus, Pavement, The Killers, The Joggers, Miles Before, Liz Phair, Ani DiFranco, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pansy Division, The Beatles, Buddy Holly, The Smiths
RAN, The Shining, The Tin Drum, Throne of Blood, Cries and Whispers, Bride of Chucky, Showgirls, Election, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Dancer In The Dark, Solaris, The Sacrifice, Rashomon, Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau, not Disney), Seed of Chucky, eXistenZ
Strangers With Candy, Picket Fences, History Detective, Law and Order, Murder She Wrote, shows about serial killers
As I Lay Dying, Go Down Moses, Light In August, Mrs. Dalloway, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, The Defense, Lolita, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Barabbas, Midnight's Children, The Tin Drum, Flannery O'Connor, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Red Harvest, Everything Is Illuminated, Specimen Days, Middlemarch, Mysteries, Halldor Laxness
Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner and The Thing (And William Faulkner's thing)