crafty endeavors, music, midcentury modern design, rolling rock, reading, NPR, netflix, saloon piano, peanut butter, art history, moderate democrats, scottish accents, wanting tattoos but being too scared of my mom to get one, taking pictures, the beach, ira glass, readymade magazine, laughing until i can't breathe, max fischer, heifer international, sitting in rittenhouse square, sleeping, dane cook, autumn, off-color humor, desperately wanting a flat pak house , drinks served out of coconuts, hugging, coffee, interior decorating, giant cheeseburgers, conan o'brien, travelling, rocking out at concerts, camping, right-justified things, pretending to be smart, eugene mirman, overthinking everything in my life, browsing at the bookstore and then buying everything on half.com, pizza, craftster, talking in the voice of estelle costanza, drinking beers after work in the summer, mike birbiglia, museums, david sedaris, conga lines, looking into people's windows, staring at the ceiling, christmas.
i'm mainly more into albums than bands, but safe bets are: belle and sebastian, brendan benson, bob dylan, quasi, beulah, arcade fire, the lucksmiths, looper, the rondelles, andrew wk, magnetic fields, the streets, rolling stones, yo la tengo, elephant 6 bands, apples in stereo, kings of convenience, bf5, sloan, elliott smith, steely dan, tmbg, cat power. recently...
annie hall, anything wes anderson (the life aquatic being last in line), so i married an axe murderer, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the godfather (I & II), lost in translation, the great outdoors, stanley kubrick, reality bites, burt reynolds movies, american beauty, ghostbusters, fight club, zoolander, the graduate, don't look back, indiana jones, amelie, manhattan murder mystery, about a boy, willy wonka, singles, pretty in pink.
curb your enthusiasm, the simpsons (back when the writers still had integrity), seinfeld, gilmore girls, cosby show reruns, nature shows (especially about natural disasters or life on the serengeti), nanny 911, design on a dime, family guy, anything about the paranormal (especially aliens), my so-called life, the office (uk), fishing with john, basically any reality show where i can pass judgement on people who are in situations i've never been in, blue planet, the x-files.
catcher in the rye, middlesex, a prayer for owen meany, franny and zooey, the amazing adventures of kavelier and clay, david sedaris, still life with woodpecker, the fountainhead, crime & punishment
conan o'brien, bob dylan, stuart murdoch, holden caulfield, phil hartman, dr. jack j. spector (my modern art professor), stephen cramer