J.S. Bach, Badfinger, Joan Baez, The Beatles, Amazing Blondel, Jacques Brel, Anne Briggs, Sarah Brightman, Harry Chapin, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, King Crimson, Jim Croce, Blossom Dearie, Sandy Denny, John Denver, Derek And The Dominos, Neil Diamond, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, The Eels, Alejandro Escovedo, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd, Steve Goodman, Dave Carter And Tracy Grammer, Jack Hardy, Ian & Sylvia, Burl Ives, Blind Willie Johnson, Leo Kottke, Gordon Lightfoot, Lindisfarne, Aimee Mann, John Martyn, Erin McKeown, Nellie McKay, Sarah McLachlan, Ralph McTell, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, Laura Nyro, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, The Pentangle, John Prine, Renaissance, Kate Rusby, Stephen Schwartz, Judee Sill, Simon And Garfunkel, Michael Smith, Steeleye Span, Stephen Sondheim, Cat Stevens, The Strawbs, June Tabor, Richard Thompson, Linda Thompson, Three Dog Night, Townes Van Zandt, Suzanne Vega, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Kurt Weill, The Who, Mason Williams, Paul Williams, Kate Wolf, Warren Zevon
Movies
Abbot And Costello, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Dario Argento, "Blade Runner", "Breakfast At Tiffany's", Ingmar Bergman, Charles Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, Zooey Deschanel, Disney Films, Jeanette MacDonald And Nelson Eddy, Blake Edwards, Federico Fellini, W.C. Fields, Bill Forsyth, Janeane Garofalo, Terry Gilliam, Alfred Hitchcock, Jeunet And Caro, Danny Kaye, Stanley Kubrick, Veronica Lake, Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, Val Lewton, "The Lion In Winter", David Lynch, The Marx Brothers, Hayao Miyazaki, "Picnic At Hanging Rock", "The Pink Panther", Vincent Price, Peter Sellers, Moira Shearer, Preston Sturges, The Ritz Brothers, "The Adventures Of Robin Hood", "The Third Man", Old Universal Horror Films, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder
Television
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Blackadder, Black Books, Daria, Dead Like Me, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Arrested Development, Angel, Doctor Who (before it got Americanized), Extras, Father Ted, Haibane Renmei, Rik Mayall And Adrian Edmondson, Mr. Bean, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Muppet Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, My Name Is Earl, The Office (both versions), Peep Show, Penn And Teller's Bullshit, Star Trek: The Original Series, Red Dwarf, Scrubs, That 70's Show, Tru Calling, The Twilight Zone (original series), Wonderfalls
Books
"A Confederacy Of Dunces", "Catch-22", "Don Quixote", "The Dubliners", "Watership Down", "The Great Gatsby", Douglas Adams, Richard Adams, Alan Bennett, Ray Bradbury, Bertolt Brecht, William S. Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, Don Miguel De Cervantes, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Chekhov, Peter Cook, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, T.S. Eliot, Ian Fleming, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, James Goldman, Edward Gorey, Graham Greene, Thomas Harris, Joseph Heller, Garrison Keillor, James Lileks, Alan Moore, Edgar Allan Poe, Dennis Potter, Terry Pratchett, Tom Robbins, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Shenkman, Neil Simon, Marshall Terry, James Thurber, John Kennedy Toole, Sue Townshend, Kurt Vonnegut, William Shakespeare
Heroes
Nihili nisi divinum stabile est. Coetera fumus. (Nothing is stable if it is not divine. The rest is smoke.)
- inscription from Mantegna's painting of St. Sebastian
I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.
- Leonard Cohen
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
- James Thurber
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue ... and it's a pretty odd sort of virtue at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
- Voltaire
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me,
Sign was painted, it said private property;
But on the back side it didn't say nothing.
This land was made for you and me.
- Woody Guthrie
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
- Siddhartha Buddha
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
- Aeschylus (by way of Robert Kennedy)
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"CATS," he said eventually. "CATS ARE NICE."
- Terry Pratchett, "Sourcery"
About me:
The purpose of life is, seemingly, to reproduce and then to die. In my 28 years I have managed to fail at many of my goals, and although I am destined to (eventually) accomplish one of these tasks preordinated to living matter, the other is looking like a distinct impossibility.
My Web site and blog are being redesigned and may or may not be back any time soon. Go ahead and visit www.jonathandewbre.com and see if I've made any progress.
Who I'd like to meet: Somebody willing to agree that the correct phrasing of this question is "WHOM I'd like to meet."
Yes, I got married. But we didn't have a traditional wedding, just went to the courthouse with family, and dinner after. So, a lot of people didn't know. Still love ya, don't worry!
Well, I prefer Brussel Sprout because its more city specific, also they are small, green and leafy and not so popular, I felt like they needed some love and appreciation. I mean cmon, everyone loves Belgian Waffles! :-)
Yes, we went to the Tuesday show. I thought it was OK - Sting was kind of half-assing it. But I was also kind of falling asleep - still jet lagged. Did you like it? We got free tickets so I can't really complain I guess.
