Lit. Movies with profound meanings, hot sex, guns and bombs, or dark humor. People who pack heat. Fashion and Travel Magazines. Pro-Anorexia websites. Beer. Driving other people's cars. Wearing other people's hats. Showering in strange bathrooms. Music that wakes me up in the morning. Tea and Toast. Cigarettes. Window shopping. Small, shiny objects. Being offensive. Old things that break and work again. Being offended. Embellished stories that are not quite lies. Sexual harassment. Long drives. Trespassing. & spacing out.
Matadors, feuding Appalachians, and writers of things that don't suck.
Anything that tells a story; Dylan, Floyd, Petty, the Stones, Waits, Lou Reed, White Stripes, Van Morrison, the Kinks, Radiohead, and a lot of ooold shit I won't get into. Anything that bids me shake my ass when drunk; funky beer music and select forgotten 80's cock rock. And anything with an appropriate tone for scromping, namely Mazzy Star, Otis Redding, and Portishead. 90's rock no one talks about anymore (of course), and the classics- Chuck Berry, Leadbelly, Cash, and Buddy Holly. Anything done well, Dire Straits, The Pixies, Fiona Apple, Bad Company, and this list is entirely too long....
Full Metal Jacket, All About Eve, Almost Famous, Office Space, Best In Show, Amelie, Scotland PA, Tombstone, American Beauty, Fight Club, Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Stand By Me, Fear and Loathing, Life Is Beautiful, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Graduate, Eternal Sunshine, Gone With The Wind and this list is entirely too long.
Lately it's The Riches and Big Love, roving gypsies and polygamists just do it for me I guess. Oh and the dog insists we watch Animal Planet.
The Sun Also Rises, Lolita, Different Seasons, The World According To Garp, Wuthering Heights, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fear and Loathing, Any and all Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Plath, Nabokov, Hunter Thompson, Joan Didion or Bronte sisters. Great Expectations, Grimms and Anderson Fairy Tales, Fight Club, Alice In Wonderland and the Looking Glass, Catcher In The Rye & Nine Stories, The Hobbit, Rain Makes Applesauce, and Beloski Stays Home. NEVER ask an english major this question.
Joan Didion, Hemingway's Brett, "Jolene", Medea, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hunter Thompson, Hamlet, and Mary Kate Olsen.