Good comedy. Booze. Burlesque girls. Browsing book stores. The occassional nacho.
Pink. Rachael Ray. Busy Phillips. Kat Von D. Amy Schumer. Mary Lynn Rajskub. Elisha Cuthbert. Diablo Cody. Maura Tierney. Anyone with pretzels to share. Oh, and this chick:Flixster - Share Movies
Pink Floyd, Breaking Benjamin, Tool, Simon and Garfunkel, The Postal Service, Old 97s, Louis Prima, Dean Martin, Norah Jones, Iron and Wine, Carbon Leaf, Static X, The Who, Goldfinger, Bill Withers, Foo Fighters, Elton John, The Shins, Ray Charles, Regina Spektor, Kasey Chambers, Johnny Rivers, Whiskeytown, Eve 6, Amy Winehouse, Blue October, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, Wheatus, Coldplay, Nat King Cole, Chevelle, Shiny Toy Guns, Death Cab For Cutie, The Bravery, Peter Bjorn and John, Spoon, The Fratellis, Rob Zombie and a shitload of other angry white-boy music. And Pink. She loves me.
Love me some crappy horror movies! Oh, and Scorcese, Kubrick, Spielberg, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Cameron Crowe, Michael Mann, Mary Harron, Errol Morris, Jonathan Lynn, Adrian Lyne, anything written by Steve Martin, et al.
Dexter. The Office. House. Californication. Arrested Development. The Sopranos. Undeclared. Tales from the Crypt. Futurama. CSI. Monster Quest. The Simpsons. The X-Files. Soap. The Big Bang Theory. Lucky Louie. Law & Order: SVU. Mr. Show. Deadwood.
I'll read me some Jerry Stahl, Bret Easton Ellis, John Irving, Tim O'Brien, Steve Martin, Stephen King, Stewart O'Nan, Raymond Carver, John Steinbeck, Michael Connelly, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Lehane, Ron Carlson, T.M. McNally, A. Mannette Ansay, Susan Minot, Andre Dubus, Richard Matheson, James Ellroy, Augusten Burroughs, Jeff Lindsay, Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy, and then some, including those rotting UK corpses Austen, Dickens, and Joyce, plus that master of American minimalism Hemingway, who proved he truly believed in brevity by cutting his life short with a shotgun blast to the brain-pan.
Robert Schimmel.