Boston Red Sox (turns out that faith is rewarded, Nation!). Broadway Show League (Go PlayWorld!). Chasing pigeons.
John Lennon
The Beatles, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash, Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, John Prine, Roy Orbison, Kate Bush, Sinead O'Connor, Parliament Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, Sly and the Family Stone, Neil Young, Van Morrison, David Bowie, U2, Jonathan Richman, Wildman Fisher, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Big Joe Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Captain Beefheart, Louis Jordan, Slim Gaillard, The Who, Gram Parsons, Leonard Cohen, Carmina Burana, Leisure Class.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Grapes of Wrath, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Laughton), Raging Bull, 8 1/2, Wings of Desire, East of Eden, Gods and Monsters, Ed Wood, Godfather I and II, Dracula and Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein, A Night at the Opera, The Bank Dick, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Thin Man, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, The Right Stuff, Lolita, Prick Up Your Ears, Hair, Help!, The Road Warrior, Down by Law, Born Into This, Quills, Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau), Roshomon, The Entertainer, The Misfits, The Man Who Would be King, The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, It's a Wonderful Life, Field of Dreams, To Kill a Mockingbird, On the Waterfront. . .
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. Major Mudd, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Bullwinkle and Rocky, The Banana Splits, The Kopy Cats, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Delphi Bureau, Baretta, The Odd Couple, Sanford and Son, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Millenium, American Gothic, Blackadder, The Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous, Mrs. Mouth, Ken Burns docs and American Experience on PBS, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Soup/Talk Soup, Unsolved Mysteries, Cops, America's Most Wanted, anything hosted by Bill Kurtis, Baseball Tonight.
A Confederacy of Dunces, Seymour:An Introduction, Burr and Julian (both Gore Vidal),Rule of the Bone (by Russell Banks), The Cider House Rules, Lord Malquist and Mister Moon, Dracula, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Expectations, Chekhov's short stories, Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Ragtime, Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane, The Dharma Bums, Post Office, Guilty of Everything, Paul Revere's Ride, Devil in the White City,Summer of '49, Letters to a Young Poet, Notes on a Cowardly Lion.
Jesus Christ, Wm Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Chas Bukowski, Howard Stern, Anton Chekhov, EA Poe, WB Yeats, RM Rilke, Dylan Thomas, Nathnl Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Ginsberg Kerouac Burroughs Huncke Corso Snyder Matz Wieners, JD Salinger, Lenny Bruce, Gore Vidal, Philip Larkin, ee cummings, H.D., G. Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Bert Brecht, Tom Stoppard, Joe Orton, Steven Sondheim, Teddy Roosevelt, James Dean, Bobby deNiro, Meryl Streep, David Rabe, Sam Shepard, Brendan Behan, Bill Kurtis, Bernie Carbo, Sun Ra, The Silver Surfer.