| General | Hanging out with my wife, making picture shows, watching picture shows, reading books (even some that don't have pictures), listening to my iPods. Yep, that covers just about everything. | | Music | The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, U2, Foo Fighters, Beastie Boys, Ryan Adams, Amy Winehouse, The Roots, OutKast, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Radiohead, The Shins, Wilco, Beck, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Jon Brion, Thomas Newman, David Holmes, The Rolling Stones (pre-1980), John Coltrane, Elvis, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, many many many more | | Movies | The Godfather, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, Boogie Nights, Out of Sight, Mean Streets, Kicking and Screaming (1995), Apocalpyse Now, Pulp Fiction, Magnolia, Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing, Citizen Kane, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Horse Feathers, The Departed, Children of Men, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Sherlock Jr., The General, The Bank Dick, Heat, High Fidelity, Fargo, Blood Simple, Zodiac, The French Connection, All The President's Men, Taxi Driver, Fletch, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Grindhouse, American Beauty, The Limey, City Lights, A Band Apart. | | Television | Current: The Office (US), The Daily Show, 30 Rock, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Scrubs, My Name Is Earl, This American Life, Heroes, The Riches. Off the air: SportsNight, Veronica Mars, Arrested Development, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Office (BBC), Undeclared, You Bet Your Life, The Cosby Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, MASH, The West Wing (Sorkin seasons), Seinfeld, Friends, The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Sopranos, early SNL, You Bet Your Life. | | Books | Anything by Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris, Chuck Klosterman, Nick Hornby, Jonathan Franzen, Peter Biskind, David Mamet, Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert. | | Heroes | The Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, Orson Welles, P.T. Anderson, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, John Lennon, Zach Galifianakis, Judd Apatow, Larry David, Kevin Smith, and all the people who wrote those books up there. |
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