Music
More, please.
Favorite bands: Chad, The Cure; Watson, Mission of Burma
Post-punk: Mission of Burma, Fugazi, Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Wire, The Fall, Dumptruck
New Age: Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, Alex Degrassi, Pierre Bensusan, Ed Gerhard, Harvey Reid
Chad's hair bands: Racer X, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ratt, Dokken, Queensryche, WASP, Lynch Mob, TNT
Other assorted: Mighty Purple, Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, Radiohead, Primus, Bob Dylan, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Tool, Killing Joke, Marvin Gaye, Melvins, Royal Trux, U2 before 1990, Beck, Built to Spill, Cake, Days of the New, Mozart, Bill Withers, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk
Guilty pleasures: Moby, The Cars, DJ Rekha, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Tom Jones, big band music
Movies
Anything by Christopher Guest or Woody Allen, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Amadeus, The Party, An Everlasting Piece, Seven, Pi, the original Willy Wonka, Little Miss Sunshine, The Thin Man, The Crawling Eye, The Old Dark House, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Good Night and Good Luck, Ed Wood, Saw, pretty much any bad sci-fi or horror movie made before 1965.
Television
Nope.
It is an incredible waste of time. I mean, is Dancing With the Stars really worth anyone's attention? It probably contains subliminal messages: BUY HAMBURGER HELPER, BUY HAMBURGER HELPER
Books
Many.
Fiction: Anything by Umberto Eco, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Out of the Silent Planet trilogy, The Idiot and others by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Crystal Cave, Sherlock Holmes, I don't know, I could go on forever with this.
Non-fiction: John Adams, Mao the Untold Story, Zero, Fast Food Nation, Riding the Iron Rooster, This Band Could Be Your Life, again, etc, etc, etc.
Recent new reads I've enjoyed: The Historian, The Heretic's Daughter, Areas of My Expertise, House of Leaves.
Heroes
The semi-colon, which has persevered as a valuable and relevant bit of punctuation despite decades of misapprehension and ill use.
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