Comic books, old people, watching people who run funny, watching people fall, Bernadette Peters playing trumpet, Tatum O' Neal playing baseball, coffee, animation, film, tourist traps (esp. broken down, strugglin, or otherwise fucked up), haunted houses, the drive-in, old trailers, trees, shacks, Hawaii, cheap laffs, doin' it in cars, drinking in bushes, reckless escape, Joey Ramone, beach bonfires in ill-advised locations
A beacon of hope in a sea of human garbage.
The Germs, The Ramones, Los Canadians, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Bikini Kill, The Dicks, Tiny Blobs Solo, Younger Lovers
Paris Texas, Over The Edge, Little Darlings, The Jerk,Ice Storm, John Waters, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Bad News Bears,Harold & Maude, My Best Fiend, Grumpy Old Men, Naked Kiss, Car Wash, Switchblade Sisters, any dumb 80's comedy, The Swimmer, Bad Seed, Meatballs.
Freaks + Geeks, I Shouldn't Be Alive!, Golden Girls
Flannery O'Connor, Jerzy Kozinski, Zora Neale Hurston, Ring Lardner, Carson McCullers, Tennesse Williams, Truman Capote, Cruddy, autobios, MAD magazine, + tons of comics.
Dee(from What's Happening), Cookie Mueller, Dori Seda, Richie Bucher. Hilarious + trashy broads who commit daily social blunders. People who are positive and productive, but not in a way that makes me wanna barf.