| General | Playing my guitar, seeing live music, playing and watching baseball, politics stop a nation's beating heart. | | Music | The Advantage, the Aislers Set, the Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Beulah, the Blow, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Bruises, Built to Spill, Circulatory System, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Cure, Death Cab for Cutie, Dismemberment Plan, Elf Power, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Juan Garcia Esquivel, the Essex Green, the Fiery Furnaces, the Flaming Lips, Flin Flon, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Grandaddy, Guided By Voices, GBV!, GBV!, Incredibad, INXS, The Islands, Jenny Lewis, Juliana Hatfield, Justin Heathcliff, The Late BP Helium, early Liz Phair, Loquat, the Magnetic Fields, the 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, the Gothic Archies, Stephin Merrit, Malajube, the Masters of the Hemisphere, Marshmallow Coast, Mates of State, the Microphones, Mount Eerie, Midnight Oil, the Minders, Minibosses, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Of Montreal, Will Oldham, the Olivia Tremor Control, Pixies, the Police, the Postal Service, Quasi, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rico Mastrodonato, Rilo Kiley, Robert Pollard, the Shins, Simon and Garfunkel, Sloan, SLOOOOOAN!, Smashing Pumpkins, the Smiths, the Softies, Soul Coughing, Soundgarden, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Supergrass, Thelonious Monk, They Might Be Giants, Throw Me The Statue, Tiny G, Tom Petty, Travis Morrison, U2, the Unicorns, the Walkmen, Weezer, Weird Al Yankovic, the Who, the Wrens | | Movies | i heart huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Election, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, The Naked Gun, Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers, Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Once, and oh so many more | | Television | LOST, How It's Made, Mythbusters, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Big Love, The Sopranos, The Bob Newhart Show, M*A*S*H, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Police Squad! | | Books | Books, yes, I do read books. RIP David Foster Wallace. | | Heroes | Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, Roy Lichtenstein, Miranda July, Ben Gibbard (even more so now that he's marrying Zooey Deschanel), Mahatma Gandhi, Bill Murray |
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