Likes
Books
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
- Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- On the Road by Jack Keroac
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (Well, at least the first six books, anyway...)
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Suburban Nation: The Rise of Urban Sprawl and the Death of the American Dream by Duany, Pleter-Zybek, and Speck
- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
- All Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Gallic War by Julius Caesar
- And, of course, the collective Calvin and Hobbes works by Bil Waterson
Music
- Led Zeppelin
- Depeche Mode
- Massive Attack
- Nine Inch Nails
- Pink Floyd
- Apollo Sunshine
- Handsome Boy Modeling School
- Deltron 3030
- Orbital
- Kosheen
- BT
- Tori Amos
- Blur
- Lamb
- New Order
- Garbage
- Travis
- The Gorillaz
- Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
- Ashley MacIsaac
- Aphex Twin
- Bjork
- Tricky
- Goldie
- Grooverider
- Roni Size
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Paul van Dyk
- Peter Gabriel
- David Bowie
- Dhol Foundation
- Basement Jaxx
- Portishead
- Belle and Sebastian
- Poe
- Juno Reactor
- Jurassic 5
- Junkie XL
- Zero 7
- Thievery Corporation
- Federico Aubele
Places I Have Been (And Actually Stopped and Looked Around)
Yamerica (and Canada)
- Boston, Massachusetts
- New York City. New York
- Washington, DC
- Montreal, Quebec
- Chicago, Illinois
- Badlands National Park
- Mount Rushmore
- Jackpot, Nevada (the best-named place ever)
- San Francisco, California
- Los Angeles, California
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Grand Canyon
- San Antonio, Texas
- Houston, Texas
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Walt Disney World
- Orlando, Florida
- Miami, Florida
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Columbus, Ohio
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Toronto, Ontario
- Seattle, Washington
- And, of course, all over New England
The UK
- London...and not just the touristy parts either. I've been to Croydon too. Not that that's anything to be proud of.
- Bath
- Winchester
- Glastonbury
- Manchester
- Glasgow
- Stirling
- Edinburgh
- St. Andrews
- Nottingham
- St. Albans
- Cambridge
- Gibraltar