Books: Catcher in the Rye, Any John Grisham, Brave New World,
Around the World in 80 Days, Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger,
The Mysterious Stranger (the short story), 1984, Timequake has had
a profound effect on my thinking
poetry of all sorts, such as Housman, Stephen Crane, John Keats,
Yeats, Frost, Bruce Bond,
Movies: GoodFellas, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Back to the
Future, Pale Rider, Clockwork Orange, Rebel Without a Cause, Hook,
History of the World Pt. 1, The Talented Mr. Ripley,
Shows: Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development, The Simpsons,
American Dad, Mighty Boosh, Rocko's Modern Life, Burn Notice,
Community, Lost, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother, American Pickers,
Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Monk, Fraiser, awkward,
Music: all of it (exception being opera)
but some of my favorites include:
LCD Soundsystem, The White Stripes, Pink Floyd,
The Beatles, The Black Keys, The Kills, Woolfy, Cream, Tom Petty,
The Beastie Boys, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse,
Eric Clapton, Electric Six, Dr. Dog, !!! Outkast, Woolfy, Kasabian,
Moby, Slow Static, Starfucker, Queens of the Stone Age, The Eagles,
Coldplay, Reggie Watts,
Cake, Drake, Justice, Conway Twitty, The Eagles, Leonard Cohen, Led
Zeppelin, Diana Ross, R.L. Burnside, Amy Winehouse, Metronomy,
Queen, Traveling Wilbury's, Steve Miller, Muse, XX, The Kills, Yeah
Yeah Yeah's, Spooky Folk,
Death in Vegas, Hot Chip, Garth Brooks, Gorillaz, RJD2, Mos Def,
Mister Heavenly, Jesus and Mary Chain, Flaming Lips, Frank Sinatra,
Calvin Harris, Simon and Garfunkel, Spice Girls, Salt n Peppa, Dead
Weather, The Virgin Wolves and numerous others..
Food: Mexican and Italian (Chinese buffets also rock)