Cooking toe-curling food, geeking out, my vinyl collection and fantasizing about becoming a dj, speaking Russian, ginger candy, strong coffee and chain-smoking, bones, bugs and other things that give people the willies

Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, Modern Lovers, Dr. John, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Emerson Lake and Palmer, King Crimson, Radiohead, Syd Barrett, Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Staples Singers, The Shins, Bit Shifter, BS 2000, Susumu Yokota, Scientific American

Kung Fu Hustle, Shaun of the Dead, Old Boy, All Wes Anderson flicks, blaxploitation flicks, Moog, Hero, Happiness of the Katakuris, In the Mood For Love, City of Lost Children, I Heart Huckabees, Adaptation

Cook's Tour, 30 Days, Best Week Ever, Stella, Iron Chef, Arrested Development, Chapelle's Show, The OC, Sex and the City, Heatvision and Jack (though technically only a pilot was ever made), Six Feet Under

Me Talk Pretty One Day, What Einstein Told His Cook, The Orchid Thief, Kitchen Confidential, Jitterbug Perfume