General
adventures, bad weather, large bodies of water, explosions, fish, heated chases, heated arguments, disgustings, dreams, feelings!, comfortable silences, intense dialogues, intense contrasty beautiful earthy colors, the human body, people, psychological thrillers, philosophical quests, picking classes for next semester (but never keeping up with them), filling out forms, small elements of fantasy, complete utter plainness, phlegm, awkward childhoods, people who do not fit in, alternate worlds, dark/vulgar humor, dry funnies, getting lost in the mountains, scanning craigslist for free things, nighttime, whimsicality, science, crazies, art, shock art, aesthetics, hideouts, smarties, vessels and containers, words, wriggly trees, walking around in the woods, things that make me think, domestic rats
Music
Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Aimee Mann, Crystal Castles, The Decemberists, old Weezer, The Smiths, Samiam, The Flashing Lights, BT, Sasha, Kate Nash, Bjork, Jimmy Eat World, The Cranberries, Switchfoot, Maria Mena, Elliott Smith, Blink-182lol, MGMT, Coldplay and Rihanna and Beyonce, Feist, Jason Mraz, Patti Smith, The Jealous Sound, Modest Mouse, Sia, Jump Little Children, Lady Gaga, Placebo, Paramore, Linkin Park, Mr. Bungle, Radiohead, Portishead, Silverstein, Rilo Kiley, The Bird & the Bee, Paul Oakenfold, Conjure One, Niggy Tardust.
I don't care, so long as it's loud.
Movies
terrible Sci-Fi Channel originals, Proof, Dead Poets Society, Gattaca, Amelie, The Science of Sleep, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Waking Life, Tape, The Shape of Things, Jaws, Alice In Wonderland, Eagle vs. Shark, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Palindromes, The Fisher King, Jurassic Park, Becoming Jane, The Jane Austen Book Club, Humboldt County
Movies about space or dinosaurs or crazy people. Weird things.
Television
National Geographic shows, Nova, Planet Earth, the science channel, Fawlty Towers, The Simpsons, Family Guy, One Tree Hill, Arrested Development, Kid Nation, Mythbusters!, Elimidate, X-Files, Spongebob, great cartoons, autopsies and invasive plastic surgeries.
Books
The Cheese Monkeys (Chip Kidd), Franny & Zooey (JD Salinger), Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger), 400 Wood Boxes, Donuthead (Sue Stauffacher), Blubber (Judy Blume), Weetzie Bat (Francesca Lia Block), Young Adult Novel (Daniel Pinkwater), The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupery), The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath), The Body Artist (Don DeLillo), The L-Shaped Room (Lynne Reid Banks), Keith Haring's Journals
Coming-of-age novels, complex kid books, straightforward adult books.
Heroes
some little kids, certain professors, a couple buddies, Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes, Weetzie Bat