Playing music and scavenging for junk
Artists and musicians.
Klaus Nomi, Adam and the Ants, Shocking Blue, The Runaways, Yoko Ono, Black Sabbath, Devo, cabaret voltaire, sigue sigue sputnik, the flying lizards, GG Allin & The Jabbers, gang of four, demented are go, muddy waters, Grace Jones, Nina Hagen, Television, Divine all Surf music.
Anything by O. Henry, David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs.