musak, reading, running, taking photos, talking politics, watching hockey, travel, eating, realpolitik, being contrary, finding out stuff

the hives, the books, will oldham, emmylou harris, jean grae, jay-z, james taylor, air, the verve, the roots, johnny cash, digable planets. the mighty mos, zero 7, zeppelin, joni mitchell, neil young, bjork, sanjeev & karuna, k.d. lang

the manchurian candidate (w/murder she wrote), crouching tiger hidden dragon, forrest gump, in the name of the father, billy madison, royal tenenbaums, napoleon dynamite, THE ANCHORMAN, team america (fuck yah!)

cross-fire, the mclaughlin hour, any show who has Christopher Hitchens as a guest, star-trek (all of them), father ted, the office, harvey birdman attorney at law, BBC World

i married a communist, the russian album, scar tissue, dr. zhivago, steppenwolf, the collapse of globalism, reflections of a siamese twin, voltaire's bastards (anything by john ralston saul), the missionary position (most anything by Chris Hitchens), the days of salt and rice, homage to catalonia