Digital filmmaking, travel, experimental theater, dance, Velcro, media criticism, stainless steel, old Pathé films, Vespas, tom stoppard plays, noel coward plays, cole porter songs, pre-1950s photography, Pina Bausch, Big Sur, Nouvelle Vague icons, Isamu Noguchi, pulp art, Bertolt Brecht, red hook
Fellow dilettantes
David Bowie, Cole Porter, Charlie Parker, New Order, Django Reinhardt, Steve Reich, Radiohead, Mum, Astor Piazzolla, Pink Martini, Duke Ellington, Blonde Redhead, Tom Waits, Blur, Nico Muhly, Pulp, Heiner Goebbels, Antony & the Johnsons, Ladytron, Count Basie, Erik Satie, The National, Beck, Ella Fitzgerald, Sufjan Stevens, Belle & Sebastian, Emily Haines
Roman Holiday, 400 Blows, Labyrinth, Now Voyager, Fallen Angels, In the Mood for Love, Wet Hot American Summer, Sunset Boulevard, Donnie Darko, Gaslight, Empire Strikes Back, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Infernal Affairs, Rebecca, Gimme Shelter, Cinema Paradiso, The Lady Vanishes, Withnail and I, Double Indemnity, Secretary, Irma Vep, Une femme est une femme, My Neighbor Totoro, Le Samourai, The History Boys
Arrested Development, Lost, Project Runway
The Razor's Edge, Lolita, Gut Symmetries, The Art of Travel, Hamlet, The Invention of Love, Handwriting, American Pastoral, On the Road, Private Lives, Paris to the Moon, New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Disgrace, Angels in America, The Year of Magical Thinking, Little Black Book of Stories, Everything Is Illuminated, A Year in the World, The Pillowman, The History Boys, poems by Stanley Kunitz, Carol Ann Duffy, C.P. Cavafy, A.E. Housman, Horace, Catullus.
Hayao Miyazaki, Charles and Ray Eames, Nick Kristof, Cole Porter