32 x 32 charcoal gray dickies, thrift stores, hardware stores, craft stores, painting, making things, gore, sleaze, horror, sci-fi, guys in rubber monster suits, stop-motion animation, polymer clay, watching the same 6 episodes of mystery science theatre 3000 over and over again while sitting in my basement building things. ooh, and super important, breakfast foods.
nerds, geeks, weirdos, spazzs, goofballs, perverts, whackjobs, dingbats, freaks, crackpots, weiners, dorks, losers, and degenerates.
the Sonics, yo la tengo, lake holiday, the mummies, Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices, kleenex girl wonder, magnetic fields, ween, velvet underground, unrest, beat happening!, spiritualized, Link Wray, my bloody valentine, high on fire, ricky nelson, built to spill, pavement, teenage fanclub, neutral milk hotel, apples in stereo, sun records stuff, thee headcoats/ headcoatees......
science of sleep, my sweet satan, harold and maude, dirty john waters, basket case series, amelie, quadraphenia, blaxsploitation, universal monsters, ray harryhausen, revenge of the nerds, pee wee's big adventure, dark backwards, punch drunk love, danger: diabolik, hard boiled, battle royale, anyting touched by lucio fulchi, cemetary man, shakes the clown, day the earth stood still, holy mountain, santa sangre, i absolutely adore 70's porn trailors, in fact almost any pre-1985 horror movie trailer is pure enjoyment, old commercials, any video comps people make for me.
freaks and geeks, MST3K, strangers with candy, south park, daily show, curb your enthusiasm
ice haven by dan clowes, anything by john waters, outdated science books, if chins could kill by bruce campbell, anything by lloyd kaufman, comics: dork, eightball, dark knight returns, 70's and 80's justice league america, angry youth comics, magic whistle. magazines: ready made, rue morgue, cinema sewer, zines, juxtapoz.
amy sederis, ira glass, stephen colbert, and todd oldham