bowling, British Ilses (including their invasion of the US...via culture), comedy, creating fictional media empires, diners and greasy spoons, forms of media, observing the redundancies in my own profile, more bowling

(Other than the Beatles the following artists are ones of which I likely only know between a couple of songs to a couple of albums for, but it’ll give you a pretty good idea what kind of music I like and/or what kind of music I’d make if I were so inclined):, The Beatles (esp. Rubber Soul, Revolver, and the [White Album]), Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds (Five), Chuck Berry, The Buggles, The Buzzcocks, Cake, The Cars, Ray Charles, The Clash, Elvis Costello (early stuff), Creedance Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Feist, Fountains of Wayne, Franz Ferdinand, Vince Gauraldi, The Hives, The Kinks, Ben Kweller, Tom Lehrer, ? and the Mysterians, Little Richard, The Monkees, OK Go, Tom Petty, Elvis Presley, The Ramones, The Redwalls, The Sex Pistols, Spoon, Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, The Thrills, Vampire Weekend, The Velvet Underground, The Violent Femmes, Weezer, Weird Al Yankovic, The White Stripes, The Who, Amy Winehouse, Frank Zappa (songs with lyrics), Warren Zevon, The Zombies., British Invasion, early 70s AM pop, garage rock, indie rock, indie pop, lo-fi, new wave, punk, rock ’n’ roll, rock ’n’ roll as played on the piano., If you put on WFNX in Boston or KDLD in LA then they’re probably playing something I dig too., Also: Although I prefer melody to rythym, I love songs that chug (for example "Hey Bulldog" by the Beatles or "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" from the Wings album "Band on the Run").

The 40-Year Old Virgin, Airplane, Annie Hall, American Pop, The Aristocrats, Back to the Future trilogy, Big Fish, Casablanca, The Cameraman (1928), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), Comedian, Contact, Dumb and Dumber, E.T., Forrest Gump, A Hard Day's Night, Harry Potter (series), Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Hot Fuzz (even better than Shaun of the Dead), It's a Wonderful Life, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Man on the Moon, My Fellow Americans, 1984, Napoleon Dynamite, North By Northwest, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ratatouille, School of Rock, Shaun of the Dead, Space Cowboys, Spiderman 2, Star Trek (series), UHF, Wayne's World, When Standup Stood Out, movies with Boston or the British Isles in them., Favorite Directors: Brad Bird, Alfred Hitchcock, Buster Keaton, Wes Anderson, Woody Allen

Animaniacs, Arrested Development, Battlestar Gallactica (re-boot), The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Ernie Kovacs, Family Guy, Get Smart, Green Acres, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Looney Tunes, Malcolm in the Middle, Mr. Bean, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Muppet Show, Newsradio, The Office (US), Red Dwarf, Ren and Stimpy, Saturday Night Live, Scrubs, SCTV, Seinfeld, The Simpsons (c.1992-1998, although I've seen an episode here and there from about 2003 on and it seems to be getting pretty good again), South Park, Star Trek (DS9 especially. That show is far and away one of my biggest influences as a storyteller. It's the only television series I saw from the night it premiered to the night it ended. That said, my first exposure to Star Trek was TNG and TOS, so I've been checking out TOS-Remastered. Enterprise didn't impress me at first, but it's really grown on me in the past couple of years. I think it was the creators attempt to redeem themselves after VOY.), 30 Rock, You Can't Do that on Television, YouTube (it's not really television, but there's some great old stuff there).

I like almost any book I actually bother reading. I also like reading the work of people I know because I’m a decent editor., Around the World in Eighty Days, Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat (my first Buster Keaton biography), The Catcher in the Rye, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time, Forrest Gump, Guru: My Days with Del Close, Hipster Handbook (I would have bought it but I couldn’t convince the clerk I was going to read it ironically), Improvise.: Scene from the Inside Out, Lennon (by Ray Coleman), Live From New York, The Mezzanine, Michael Caine: Acting on Film, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Of Mice and Men, Persepolis, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (it’s a really good book on television, especially writing), my notebook and my sketchbook., Comic Strips: Calvin and Hobbes, Funky Winkerbean, Authors: Chris Van Allsburg, I used to read things by Dave Barry, Roald Dahl (Disappointed that he was an Anti-Semite, but I loved his books as a child, especially if illustrated by Quentin Blake), I liked Sarah Vowell’s Partly Cloudy Patriot, Take the Cannoli, The Wordy Shipmates, and Assassination Vacation (in that order from good to great)., I really should read more.