Art, Music, Movies and OTHER NOTIONS, such as --
Janis, the B-52's, Green Day, Stephen Trask, Steve Reich, John Lennon, Robert Buckley, classical composers, Billy Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, John Lennon, Jackie Wilson, Ray Charles, James Brown, Aretha, Wilson Pickett, Stevie Wonder, Ronnie Spector, Rev. Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Roxy Music, Eno, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Henry Rollins, Natalie Merchant, Devo, Klaus Nomi, Blondie, Wall of Voodoo, Bob Marley, Annie Lennox, Garbage, Bjork, Beck, Joy Division, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie, DeVotchKa, Tracy Chapman, The Pretenders, New Order, Charlatans U.K., Fleetwood Mac, Culture Club, Pet Shop Boys, Outkast, Linkin' Park, Amy Winehouse, Corinne Bailey Rae, the Offspring, The Transplants, Coldplay, All American Rejects, The Strokes, Lily Allen, John Mayer, Rob Thomas, Daniel Powter, The Raconteurs, The Fray, Maroon 5, Matchbox 20, Dropkick Murphys, Plant Life, etc...
The Circus, Harold and Maude,... Basically anything by Charles Chaplin, Hal Ashby, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, George Cukor, Mel Brooks, George Roy Hill, Stephen Chow, Zhang Yimou, Tetsuya Nakashima... -- with Clara Bow, Theda Barrow, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Paulette Goddard, and of course Marilyn, to name but a few. Plus, Edward Scissorhands, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Curse of the Golden Flower, Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls), The Lodger, Some Like it Hot, The Professional, Lock , Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, North by Northwest, Ed Wood, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Kung Fu Hustle, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Butch Cassisdy and the Sundance Kid, Slaughterhouse Five, House of Flying Daggers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Road Warrior, Shaolin Soccer, Finding Neverland, Ballad of a Gunfighter, True Romance, V for Vendetta, Bridge to Terabithia, Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure...
Reboot, Gunslinger Girl, Henry Rollins, CARLOS MENCIA, Babylon 5, The Graham Norton Show, Cowboy Bebop, Ninja Warrior on G4, Attack of the Show, wrestling is cool, Adult Swim (northrop), Beast Wars, South Park, Star Trek (the original T.V. show)... but usually don't watch regular t.v. Can't handle the commercial breaks. I miss my TiVo.
Ernest Hemmingway, Che Guevarra, William S. Burroughs, Frank Herbert...