Obligatory "Things"

Okay, so apparently the unofficial rule of blogs is that you need to do a things you like/don't post... at least when you have nothing else to write. Well, I don't want to go into a deeper entry right now, so here ya be:

"Good" Things:

• Movies: Contact, Office Space, Spirited Away, Empire Strikes Back, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, The Matrix, A Night at the Opera (okay, anything Marx brothers,) The Pink Panther movies, Slap Shot, Grand Prix, Clerks, Office Space, Being John Malkovich
  
• TV: Simpsons, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Aqua Teen Hungerforce, World Poker Tour, Daily Show, Nova, Nature, Poirot, Beavis & Butthead, Scientific American Frontiers, Futurama
  
• Music: Joe Satriani, Paul Oakenfold, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Steve Vai, Antonin Dvorak, The Clash, The Suburbs, Jamiroquai, Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, Mozart
• Books: Douglas Adams, Neal Stephenson, Tolkien, William Gibson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frank Herbert, basically anything sci-fi or fantasy... "modern" fiction that has a story. Excessive analyzation of literature bores me... I read primarily for fun.
• Food: red-sauce Italian, Mexican, steak!, Indian, anything off the grill, my chili
  
• Champ Car, Formula 1, MotoGP, Ferrari, Porsche, Road America
  
• HDTV, DVD's, PS2
  
• Subtlety and wit (except when trying to decipher women...) :)
  
• Learning and objectivity
• Paul Reed Smith guitars
• The First Amendment
  
• Lewis Black, Ron White, Al Franken, Larry the Cable Guy, Conan O'Brien
• Monty Python
  
• Hockey, Tennis, Cycling
• those road signs that indicate curves ahead
• hot summer evenings by a pool with no bugs
  
• Lake Superior
• Coronas with lime
  

Things I don't care for so much:

• Movies: most "chick" flicks, anything with Sylvester Stallone, Triplets of Belleville, Driven
  
• Music: rap, "new" country (Willie Nelson is good), pop, barber shop, bands that don't have a guitar
  
• Closed-minded people, extremists of any kind (religous, political, etc.), pundits, Bill O'Reilly, Ralph Nader
  
• IRL!, NASCAR (I have seen a couple good NASCAR races, but most put me to sleep...)
• politicians who don't understand technology but yet try to control it for corporations
  
• political correctness (i.e. some court in California tried to outlaw the terms 'master' and 'slave' for computer hard drives)
• LLB's (left lane blockers), Suburbans, automatic transmissions, straight roads
• mornings, Mondays, unfulfilling work, meetings
• Budweiser
• mosquitoes

Okay, that's about all I can think of right now...