books, cooking, music, drinking good alcohol with great friends, video games, zen, the tao
supervillains, itinerant samurai, the Muffin Man
Air, Apples in Stereo, The Arcade Fire, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds, Beulah, Blonde Redhead, Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Diana Krall, The Eels, Elliot Smith, The Fiery Furnaces, Fisher, The Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, The Futureheads, Interpol, Jeff Buckley, Iron and Wine, Jem, JSBX, Keane, Kleenex Girl Wonder, The Magnetic Fields, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pavement, The Pillows, The Postal Service, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams, Sahara Hotnights, The Shins, The Smiths, Spoon, Thievery Corporation, Tori Amos, Weezer, Wilco, Yann Tiersen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, Zero 7, and tons more
Garden State, Lord of the Rings, High Fidelity, Ghost in the Shell, Spirited Away, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Snatch, Amélie, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Kill Bill, Love Actually, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Heroes, Arrested Development, Deadwood, Weeds, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veronica Mars, Firefly, Lost, Scrubs, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Invader Zim
Ishmael, Stardust, American Gods, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Way of Zen, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby
Thich Nhat Hanh, Noam Chomsky, Wolfgang Puck, Jack Kerouac