Art history, popular culture, social satire, and fake irony (is it dead?).
A night guard at the salon de refuses
Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Meat Puppets, Dean Martin, Miles Davis, Music Video, J.S. Bach, Etta James, Django Reinhardt, Willie Nelson, Today's Sounds, Chicago Art Ensemble, Thelonius Monk, Damon Kerr Bostrom, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Todd Rundgren, Tiny Tim, Spike Jones, Brian Eno, Le Petomane, Don Ho, Jonathan Richman, Cole Porter, Domenico Scarlatti, Duke Ellington, Georg Philipp Telemann, Frank Sinatra, George Jones, and the Nairobi trio.
Greaser's Palace, Duck Soup, The Magic Christian, Pecker, Little Big Man, Nosferatu [both silent and Herzog/Kinski versions,] and How the West Was Fun.
Banana Splits, Lidsville, Jeopardy, Dick Cavett Show, Great American Dream Machine, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Get Smart, The Avengers, and Batman.
Favorite writers - John Steinbeck, Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Robbins, Tom Wolfe, Alan Watts, William S. Burroughs, Elmore Leonard, Stephen J. Gould, and Daniel Pinkwater.
Paul Cezanne, Paul Gaugin, Paul Reubens, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Marcel Duchamp, Aaron Passmore, Alphonse Mucha, Alberto Vargas, Auguste Rodin, Rockin' Jellybean, William Bouguereau, David Hockney, Rene Lalique, Joseph Cornell, Vincent Van Gogh, Stephen J. Gould, John La Farge, Mark di Suvero, Maxfield Parrish, Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene, Ansel Adams, Ashlee Simpson, and Emo Phillips...