Life, love, and art... That's about it though."Hear No, See No, Speak No," Lee Harvey Roswell 2006, from the Slapstick series.
Anyone introduced by Rod Sterling.
Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, JellyRoll Morton, Bert Williams, The Residents, Ornette Coleman, Mike Patton's many bands, Secret Cheifs, Gottschalk, Astor Piazzolla, the ladies and gentlemen of Tin Pan Alley , Tom Waits, Billie Holiday, Bessie smith, Leadbelly, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Blind Melon Jefferson, Son House, Sleepbomb, all the fellas who came out of Sun Records, Memphis Jug Band, Nick Cave, Maia Banks, Gaucho, Michael Gira, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Screamin Jay Hawkins, PJ Harvey, Syd Barrett, Tony Clifton, Rosin Covin, The Yard Dog Road Show, Gooferman, Triclops, The Vaticans, Extreme Elvis, Extra Action Marching Band, Octomutt, The Hobogoblins, Squirell Nut Zippers, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, ect...
George Melies (cinema's first man on the moon) Fellini's La Strada, Nights of Carabia,Clowns and 8 1/2, Buster Keaton's The General,Navigator, and Steamboat Bill Jr., all the short films of Fatty Arbuckle with Buster Keaton and Al St. John, W.C. Fields' Your Telling Me, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, and his Mack Sennett short films, Charlie Chaplin, especially his short films, Harry Langdon, early Laurel and Hardy, Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped, Todd Browning's Freaks, Ingmar Bergman, Roberto Begnini films, Zero Mostel, with Gene Wilder in Rhinocerus, Andy Kaufman's Breakfast with Blassie, Woody Allen, Croenenberg's Naked Lunch, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Clint Eastwood's Bird with Forrest Whitaker (I cry everytime), Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Up for Grabs,ect..."Painting Myself Into a Corner," Lee Harvey Roswell 2006, from the Slapstick series.
You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marxs, The Honeymooners and Jackie Gleason's other television work, Sid Ceasar, John Cleese's Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, the old Warner Bros. The Burns and Allen Show, The Twilght Zone was good. Alfred Hitchcock. The Simpsons and Futurama. cartoons. Basically comedies, I think that's the best use of the medium, comedies... with writers... and actors.
Cervantes' Don Quixote, Samuel Beckett's Murphy, Kafka's The Starvation Artist, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, James Joyce's Ulysses and Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man, Hemingway's short stories, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, A Catcher in the Rye and J. D. Salinger's short stories, J. P. Donlevy's The GingerMan, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, anything by Charles Dickens, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Flann O'Brien's Third Policeman, Anais Nin's erotica, Henry Miller, Burrough's Cities of the Red Night, de Sade, Masoch's Venus in Furs, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Drugstore Cowboy, there's a great book out called The Melancholy of Lincoln that I really enjoyed, I'm reading the Dalai Lama's books now, ect...
Don Quixote, George Melies, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Zarathustra, Prince Myshkin, deSelby"Vermeer, Without Vermeer," Lee Harvey Roswell 2005