Traveling, art, acting, writing, improvising, comedy, insane conspiracy theories, photographing, walking, warm climes, getting well, Mexico (my home), Spain, Argentina, Indochina.Possibly the best commercial ever made.
Anyone who can sincerely revel in the beauty of it all and then laugh at the utter gayness of reveling in the beauty of it all.
TALKING HEADS!!!! Stevie Wonder, Wilson Pickett, Ornette Coleman, Townes Van Zandt, Roky Erickson, Ennio Morricone, Juana Molina, M83, X Ray Spex, Bonnie Prince Billy, Sonic Youth, As Mercenarias, Karen Dalton, Nick Cave, Willie Nelson, Erase Errata, Devo, Mothers of Invention, Eno, Bowie, Hot Machines, MAWATRO, Los Blackos Lipos, The Slits, Captain Beefheart, Vicente Fernandez, Galaxie 500, Blonde Redhead, Prefuse, Animal Collective, The Kinks, Bongwater, Los Tigres Del Norte, Bo Diddley, Ike and Tina Turner, Otis Fucking Redding, The Breeders, Nick Drake, Television, Pavement, Sun City Girls, Lightning Bolt, Chavela Vargas, Los Panchos, Melt Banana, Elvis Costello, Wu Tang, Edan, Sugarcubes, The Scissor Girls, SPIDER, At The Altar of the Cosmic Unicorn
Oh, you've opened up a can of worms here, friend: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Cache, Funny Games, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, Dead Man, The Squid and the Whale, The Exterminating Angel, Mon Oncle, Pierrot Le Fou, Alien, Modern Romance, Three Women, Two Lane Blacktop, Barry Lyndon, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, My Best Fiend, The Conversation, Bullitt, Dog Day Afternoon, Harold & Maude, The Sting, Chinatown, The Long Goodbye, California Split, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Minnie and Moskowitz, Opening Night, Chinese Roulette, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween, The Shining, Days of Heaven, Badlands, Paper Moon, Key Largo, Paris Texas, Out of the Past, The (original) Bad News Bears, A Picnic at Hanging Rock, Videodrome, Scanners, The Hidden, Morvern Callar, Mulholland Drive, Dr. Strangelove, The President's Analyst, Wet Hot American Summer, The Third Man, Some Like It Hot, Duck Soup, Love and Death, Talk To Her, Law of Desire, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, Volver, Repo Man, The Highway Patrolman, Blue Demon y Los Campeones Justicieros
League of Gentlemen, The Wire, Snuff Box, The Mighty Boosh, The Office, Six Feet Under, I Shouldn't Be Alive, Voyagers, Frontline, Daily Show, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor is one of the best writers I've ever read), Helter Skelter, La Reina Del Sur, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Psychotic Reactions & Carburator Dung, Tropic of Capricorn, A Void, Chicago: City on the Make, Never Let Me Go, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller. Also The Believer Magazine and Harper's on a regular basis.
Anyone who can guide me into a more organized existence.