World cuisine, world history, BBQ (the food, the cooking method, and the apparatus), video games, Master Chief, NOLA Jazz Fest, almost anything playing at the American Cinematheque, poetry and fiction, the L. Ron Hubbard Life Museum on Hollywood Blvd., religions and cults in general, Disneyland, natural history museums, and some other stuff.
Anybody who enjoys indulging in infantile or irreverent humor, and/or appreciates the deliciously absurd or ridiculous. Oh, and anybody with similar tastes in any movies, books, music, etc. who may have recommendations for me - drop me a line!
LuxuriaMusic.com, Nina Simone, Ennio Morricone, The Smiths, '60s-'80s Bollywood, surf music, exotica, The Beach Boys, The (original) Meters, Al Green, Os Mutantes, Bessie Smith, Serge Gainsbourg, Hugo Montenegro, Billy Holiday, James Brown, The Beatles, almost all New Orleans brass, blues, funk and soul, and jazz, Memphis/Delta blues, Klezmer, stuff with banjos.
David Lynch, stop-motion animation, marionation, Mario Bava, all of those E.A. Poe adaptations with Vincent Price, Stuart Gordon, Kung Fu, '60s-'80s Bollywood, Spaghetti Westerns, etc. Specific: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Once Upon a Time in the West, Blue Velvet, Eyes without a Face, Castle Freak, Black Devil Doll from Hell.
History Channel, all of the non-anime programs on Adult Swim, Iron Chef, Simpsons, The Prisoner, The Singing Detective, Bonanza! Various real-life murder programs featured on Court TV.
All of Roald Dahl's children's stories, Virginia Woolf, E.A. Poe, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, the Brontes, P.G. Wodehouse, Naughty fiction from past eras. Specific: Mrs. Dalloway, Return of the Native, Villette, Wuthering Heights, The Master and Margarita, The Monk, blah blah blah blah.
Brian Wilson. Robert Crumb. Ben Cartwright.