Music, dancing (poorly), books, baseball, Chicago, old buildings, cooking, aesthetics, asthetics, polydactyl cats, style.
Time travel allowed, where needed: Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Yulia Tymoshenko, Jay Chandrasekhar, Uli Herzner, Vladimir Tatlin, Joshua Abraham Norton, Brandon Small, Alber Elbaz, Matt Caracappa, Brian Stack, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jamie Isaia, Lakshmi Mittal, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Tristan Farnon, Bill Drummond, Alfred Jarry, Shigeru Miyamoto, Kai Ryssdal, Ray Harryhausen, Scott Schuman, George Herriman.
The Motors, Ribbon Fix, The Knife, Le Knight Club, Chic, Grace Jones, David Banner, Saint Etienne, Scarface, Michael Mayer, T.I., Donna Summer, Brian Eno, The Avalanches, The Clash, Larry Levan, Timbaland, Ludacris, New Order, Prince, Girls Aloud, Fugazi, Alan Braxe, Mannie Fresh, Jacques Lu Cont, Markus Guentner, Ulrich Schnauss, Nile Rodgers, Carl Craig, Juno Reactor, Gerling, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Ash Ra Tempel.
The Big Lebowski, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Yojimbo, Local Hero, Death Race 2000, The Last Picture Show, Badlands, Last Night, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Apartment, Blow-Up, Anaconda, Re-Animator, Kairo (Pulse).
Project Runway, the Colbert Report, 24, Frisky Dingo.
Geoffrey O'Brien, Thomas Pynchon, Guy Davenport, John Irving, Haruki Murakami, Jim Bouton, John Steinbeck, Vladimir Nabakov, James Joyce
I, I wish you could swim. Like the dolphins, like the dolphins can swim.