Searching for the Holy Mountain.
My top 3: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Putney Swope, and Holy Mountain.
Pretty much anything on Comedy Central. Yes, even the crappy shows.
Big ups go out to Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Bernhard, Herman Melville, William Gaddis, Michel Houellebecq, Thomas Mann, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry Miller, Fredrick Exley, Tennyson and Browning, Donald Barthelme, D.H. Lawrence, Dostoyevsky, Flannery O'Conner, Marcus Aurelius, Raymond Carver, Kafka, H.L. Mencken, Robert Coover, Julio Cortazar, etc.
Paul Gaugin