Staring at screens, "suckling the glass teat," cathode rays, liquid crystal displays, retinal fatigue, NINTENDO.
Dirty Three (favorite band ever), Nick Cave, Low, Devics, Klaus Nomi, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Nina Simone, Neko Case, Eleni Mandell, Janis Joplin, Rilo Kiley, Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, The Cure, The Smiths, Morrissey, Johnny Cash, Portishead, Massive Attack, Saint Etienne, Franz Ferdinand, The Faint, The Need, The Orphans, The Drags, The Mae Shi, The Sadies, The 88, The New Pornographers, Sleater-Kinney, Radiohead, Cat Power, Decemberists, Mary Timony, Skinny Puppy, Coil, Swans, Autechre, Neurosis, Drive Like Jehu, Black Heart Procession, Belle and Sebastian, Blonde Redhead, Mirah, Momus, Mingus, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Magnetic Fields, The Pogues, Holly Golightly, Thee Headcoatees, Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Hot Butter, Scissor Sisters, Fairport Convention, Antony and the Johnsons, Be Good Tanyas, etc. etc. etc.
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Heathers, La Jetée, Memento, Clue, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Muppet Movie, The Cheerleaders, Mulholland Drive, The Jerk, Cannibal! the Musical, The Wizard of Oz, The Big Lebowski, The Breakfast Club, Sneakers, Bullets Over Broadway, LA Story, Chinatown, Wayne's World, Anchorman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shaun of the Dead, THE APPLE
The Simpsons, Futurama, 24, Gilmore Girls, Arrested Development, Grey's Anatomy, Mr. Show, Blackadder, Saturday Night Live, South Park, Twin Peaks, Good Eats, A Cook's Tour, No Reservations, Iron Chef, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under (R.I.P.), Weeds, Oz, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: CI, The Sopranos, Monk, House
Pale Fire, anything else by Vladimir Nabokov, Septuagenarian Stew, Slaughterhouse Five, A Confederacy of Dunces, Cryptonomicon, City of Quartz, Finnegan's Wake, The Loved One, The Crying of Lot 49, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mme. Bovary, Anna Karenina, Breakfast of Champions, Ask the Dust, The Stranger, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Life of Pi, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Gallery of Regrettable Food, Harry Potter, and many more!
Tavis Werts. Jack Bauer.