Face-melting guitar solos, nap-taking, driving around recklessly, using Microsoft Excel for good and evil, music, thunderstorms, dinosaurs, fabric softener, strangers, robots of all kinds, and that's mostly it.

I can't keep this section up to date with the ever-changing landscape of my personal musical zeitgeist, so I'm not going to even bother trying.

The Truman Show, Stranger Than Fiction, Office Space, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Matchstick Men, Good Night and Good Luck, Being John Malkovich, Donnie Darko, I Heart Huckabees, Fight Club, The Royal Tenenbaums, This is Spinal Tap, Bridget Jones' Diary, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Closer, Thank You For Smoking, Sin City, Kill Bill, and a whole lot of others that I know I'm forgetting.

Arrested Development, Scrubs, The Office, Six Feet Under, The Muppet Show, Entourage, Chuck

You mean authors? Of course you do... Chuck Klosterman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dave Eggers, David Sedaris, Shel Silverstein