News, the nonfiction of daily reporting. The truth is most shocking. Nudity, perverseness, fetishism, weird crime, the overpowering human urge to be naked, and the comic effects of these impulses gone awry.
We would like to meet our fellow weirdos, especially those with a good sense of humor.
Calliope music, of course. Also Tom Waits, Chuck E. Weiss, Scissor Sisters, Alice Cooper, Iggy & the Stooges, Adam Ant, Gary Glitter, the Sex Pistols, the New York Dolls, Mott the Hoople, GWAR, the Tubes, Talking Heads, David Byrne, Dead Kennedys, Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips
Pink Flamingos, Lust in the Dust, Polyester, Mondo Trasho, Female Trouble, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Nightmare Alley, Big Fish, Lustful Addiction, The Female Animal, The Greatest Show on Earth, Naked Jungle, A Touch of Evil, Piano Teacher, Belle du Jour, Secretary, Borat, Spinal Tap, Team America (esp. the puppet sex--too funny)
Carnivale, Cirque du Soleil, Anything that plays on the absurd, like South Park
Mott the Hoople, Naked Lunch, Nightmare Alley, Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself, anything by Edward Gorey, The Piano Teacher
P.T. Barnum, John Waters, David Lynch, Marshall McLuhan, Andy Kaufman