Music:
Guided by Voices (anything that Robert Pollard releases under any name), Wire, Brit Invasion (more of a Kinks & Who guy than Beatles & Stones guy), Headcoats, Headcoatees, Holly Golightly, Billy Childish, Brian Jonestown, The Dears, Spacemen 3, Hot Snakes.
Movies:
Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, early Fellini, all Billy Wilder (even the shitty ones), early-mid Godard, Italian neo-realist... De Sica mostly....anything with farts and boobs too.Recent Favorites: "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" 1961 Carl Reisz. "Forbidden Games" 1952 René Clément. "Hot Rod" 2007 Akiva Schaffer. "The Decameron" 1971 Pier Paolo Pasolini. "The Holy Mountain (New Print)" 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Television:
The Wire The Office (UK and US) Arrested Development Freaks and Geeks Twin Peaks The Sara Silverman Program
Books:
My All Time Favorites (Right Now) "Babbit" - Sinclair Lewis "Cannery Row" - John Steinbeck "South of No North" - Charles Bukowski "Mildred Pierce" - James M. Cain "Keaton" - Tom Dardis "The Beautiful and the Damned" - Fitzgerald "Filth" - Irvine Welsh "Truffaut Hitchcock"
Heroes:
Billy Wilder Robert Pollard Stan Laurel Dear