Rock 'n' roll (especially power pop, melodic punk, British Invasion and garage), comic books, mystery novels, Syracuse University men's basketball
Bill Clinton and Micky Dolenz--howZAT for a combo?
My three favorites are always The Beatles, The Ramones and The Flashcubes...ALWAYS! After that, the list of fave raves goes on and on: The Monkees, The Four Tops, KISS, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Badfinger, The Kinks, Gene Pitney, The Dave Clark Five, The Raspberries, The Bay City Rollers, The Undertones, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, The Hollies, The Sex Pistols, Wilson Pickett, The Archies, The Jam, Big Star, The Searchers, The Beach Boys, NY Dolls, Johnny Thunders, The Yardbirds, Fools Face, The Lyres, The Barracudas, The Easybeats, The Go-Go's, The Poptarts, Screen Test, The Flamin' Groovies, The Byrds, The Bobby Fuller Four, The Knickerbockers, The dB's, The Remains, The Skeletons, The Beau Brummels, The Records, The Dead Boys, Otis Redding, Toots & the Maytals, Elvis (Presley and Costello), Eddie Cochran, Artful Dodger, The Plimsouls, Shoes, The Romantics, The Spongetones, Stiv Bators and hell YEAH I could keep goin' for quite a while...!
Fave remains A Hard Day's Night, which I saw in its original run at the local drive-in when I was four years old. Other perennials are It's A Wonderful Life, early Marx Brothers stuff (for Paramount), and I'm oddly addicted to That Thing You Do!
Classic: The Monkees, The Green Hornet, What's My Line?, first two seasons of The Adventures Of Superman, Batman, Shindig!Recently departed: Gilmore Girls, The Bronx Is BurningCurrent: Heroes (my favorite!), Smallville, Reaper, Mad Men, Bionic Woman, Back To You, Pushing Daisies. I've finally succumbed to American Idol--I feel so...ordinary. Plus, EVERYTHING stops when Syracuse University men's basketball is on.
Favorite writers include Harlan Ellison, Max Allan Collins, Sue Grafton and Sara Paretsky.
Too many to list, both real and imaginary; inspiration's everywhere, kinda like Chickenman (HE'S EVERYWHERE! HE'S EVERYWHERE!)