General
Billiards, making faces at myself in mirrors, evaluating you all and myself, finding loopholes in systems, people watching, singing in the car, expanding my comfort zone, trivia, road trips, interrogations, immersing myself in absurd situations, nutrition, excessive research on impractical notions, trying to increase the frequency of the peaks among the drudgery....
Music
is something you people take way too seriously. Jesus fucking Christ. Having said that: Neutral Milk Hotel, Crash Test Dummies, various Dax Riggs bands, Belle and Sebastian, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Strokes, Willie Nelson, Jethro Tull, Joel Plaskett, Led Zeppelin, Bright Eyes (hate his voice though), Sam Cooke, NIN, Jim Croce, Guns N' Roses, Janis Joplin, KMFDM, Pink Floyd, Violent Femmes, Bob Dylan, Rush, Chris Cornell, Ben Harper, Queen, Outkast, Kris Kristofferson, David Bowie, Lynrd Skynrd, Leonard Cohen, David Allan Coe, Simon and Garfunkel, Magnetic Fields. Assorted classic country (Cash, Hank Jr.), rap (Tupac, N.W.A.), bluegrass (Leftover Salmon, Earl Scruggs), hair metal (Def Leppard, Skid Row), and local SoLa stuff (Mattrock, Bones, Figs). If it's good, I will at least appreciate it. If it's not...well, sometimes that has value also. Anything with a banjo, fiddle, or dulcimer pleases my inner hillbilly.
Movies
are enjoyable wastes of time better spent in other ways. Some good/entertaining ones are: Meet the Feebles, Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Varsity Blues (haw!), Amelie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Moulin Rouge, Star Wars, Eternal Sunshine, Big Lebowski, Garden State, Office Space, Princess Bride, Suicide Kings, Boondock Saints, Sin City, Crash, Big Fish, Snatch, Wizard of and Return to Oz, Sneakers, An Evening w/ Kevin Smith, Labyrinth, Grizzly Man, Braveheart (shut up), Red Dawn, American Movie (and Coven), Willow, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Bad Santa, Pan's Labyrinth
Television
is ass. Except for: (Mostly on DVD): Northern Exposure, college football, Queer As Folk, Futurama, Sex and the City , Family Guy, Freaks and Geeks, The Simpsons, Are You Being Served?, King of the Hill, the History Channel (etc.), South Park, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Scrubs, Drawn Together, Penn and Teller: Bullshit!, Arrested Development, Mr. Show, Deadwood, Chapelle’s Show, Rome
Books
Only the Good Book for me! Really, though...any Neal Stephenson, Tolkien, Asimov, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment, Wheel of Time series, Walden, Ender's Game, On Liberty, Raptor, Animal Farm, Hitchhiker's Guide, Crashing the Party, A Million Little Pieces/My Friend Leonard, most classical political theory, Weis and Hickman, Grendel, Dr. Seuss, R.A. Salvatore, Mark Twain, The Alchemist, A Confederacy of Dunces, the Outlander series...
Heroes
Us, including but obviously not limited to: Rusty Miller, Trey Parker, Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Paine, Penn Jillette, Jamie Fraser, Mark Cuban, Doug Stanhope, Willie Nelson, Thomas Jefferson, Major N. Alan Clark, Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Zappa, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Nader, Brian Warner, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Rob Sheridan from demonbaby.com. Villains: Them, and the same disclaimer applies: Franklin Roosevelt, Lincoln, and Lyndon Johnson. George Clooney, Kathleen Blanco, Michael Moore, Tom Benson, Paris Hilton, Jesse Jackson, the entire staff of Fox News, and all the rest of you. Too many to list.