General
Laughing, enthusiasm, cute things, creepy things, things that are creepy and cute simultaneously, stories, banjo, harmonica, reading the dictionary, film, animation, indie comics, photography, improv, zines, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, MBTI, WFMU, Don Hertzfeldt, A Softer World, Adolf Wolfli, memento mori, Todd Barry, Victor Borge, Jack Handey, George Carlin, Quentin Crisp, Paul Beatty, Amy Sedaris, Rhys Darby, David Rakoff, Woody Allen, Phoebe Gloeckner, Charlie Kaufman, Eugene Mirman, Steven Wright, Michel Gondry, Jack Lalanne, Norm MacDonald, Shel Silverstein, Flight of the Conchords, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Gracie Allen, Bill Bailey, Dorothy Parker, college-ruled composition books, this american life (npr), old-timey radio plays, Salvador Dali, George Grosz, Juan Gris, Edvard Munch, Paul Cezanne, Honore Daumier, Vincent van Gogh, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Mitch Hedberg, Bill Hicks, David Sedaris, Margaret Cho, Ricky Gervais, Chris Rock, Aziz Ansari, Daniel Kitson, catapults, Groucho Marx, sock monkeys, art deco, cubism, semicolons, em dashes, Demetri Martin, Charles Chaplin, Miranda July, Gary Larson, scruffy pretty guys, humility, sincerity, courage, integrity, constructive pessimists, constructive optimists, vegetarians, tortoise coitus (literally), mushrooms (the food), pineapple, cherries, kiwis, green grapes, nectarines, navel oranges, tangerine juice, pink lady apples, the left wing.
Music
Beck, MIA, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Richard Hell, Television, Buzzcocks, Jonathan Richman, Modern Lovers, Queen, David Bowie, Lee Hazlewood, Killdozer, Peggy Lee, Bjork, Nirvana, Zombies, Charles Mingus, Beatles, James Brown, Melanie, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Joy Division, Elvis Perkins, Meat Puppets, Flight of the Conchords, Deerhoof, Radiohead, Architecture in Helsinki, The Hives, Jeff Buckley, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Aaliyah, Kelis, Mary J. Blige, D'angelo, Erykah Badu, Black Flag, Sex Pistols, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest, Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Patsy Cline, 70s punk, irish folk, show-tunes, and minimalist booty-shakers.
Movies
Synecdoche New York, Let the Right One In, The Conformist, Barry Lyndon, 2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Love and Death, Grizzly Man, Babe, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, Badlands, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Buffalo '66, Cabaret, Carnal Knowledge, Modern Times, City Lights, The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Blue, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Breaking the Waves, Dangerous Liaisons, Fight Club, Ghost World, I Stand Alone, Leaving Las Vegas, Lilya 4-Ever, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Meaning of Life (Monty Python), City of God, Wings of Desire, Network, The Princess Bride, Punch-Drunk Love, Rushmore, Schindler's List, Fight Club, The Color Purple, Slacker, Taxi Driver, This is Spinal Tap, Time of the Wolf, Happiness, Palindromes, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Dark Knight, and on and on.
Television
Books
The New Oxford American Dictionary, Catch-22, The Stranger, Lolita, 1984, Bluebeard, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Galapagos, Mother Night, Hocus Pocus, Slapstick or Lonesome No More, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, Song of Solomon, Sula, Jimmy Corrigan, The Frank Book, Eightball, Ghost World, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Perry Bible Fellowship, Charles Bukowski, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Simic, Langston Hughes ...
Heroes
My mom and Kurt. :-)