indie, postpunk, no wave, lo-fi, shoegaze, britpop, The Clash, Blur, The Pixies, Joy Division, New Order, The Slits, Public Image Ltd., Mission of Burma, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, Pavement, Galaxie 500, Jonathan Richman, The Cardigans, Bloc Party, The Bravery, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, La Laque, Metric, Asobi Seksu
media, design, Scooters, Vespa, Liberalism, Public radio, Russian intellectual history, urban planning, Cities, 1977, 1980s, Rickenbacker, indie, postpunk, no wave, lo-fi, shoegaze, britpop, wine, beer, Camel lights, weblogs, web standards, Apple, Macintosh, Flickr
Breathless, Pulp Fiction, Shaun of the Dead, Annie Hall, Run Lola Run, Metropolitan, Rushmore, The Celebration, Mulholland Drive, Donnie Darko, Chasing Amy, Amelie, Quadrophenia
Pushkin, Bakunim, Nabokov, Dostoyevsky, Douglas Coupland, Philip Roth, Rick Moody, Naomi Klein, Anna Karenina, White Noise, McSweeney's, This Side of Paradise, Lolita, The Catcher in the Rye, Cat's Cradle, Viking sagas