alex steinweiss, alphonse mucha, art deco, art nouveau, aubrey beardsley, baseball, basil rathbone, bluebirds, bob and ray, bobbed hair, boston red sox, brassai, bright red lipstick, britain, bugs bunny, busby berkley, bust magazine, catholic icons, chocolate, classic automobiles, cowgirls, easter island, ephermera of all kinds, fiestaware, flappers, flea markets, frank lloyd wright, french films, george hurrell, german expressionism, hanna-barbera, hawaiiana, holly hobbie, ireland, j.c. leyendecker, jim flora, keith olbermann, kitsch, looney tunes, london in the 60's, marcel waves, merrie melodies, mexicana, mid-century modern, molls, monocles, new mexico, nyc in the 50's, nudie suits, nuns, old classroom valentines, old country music, old magician posters, owls, paris in the 20's, petroliana, pre-raphaelites, pulp novel cover art, robert benchley, rosie the riveter, 78 rpm records, sherlock holmes, silent films, 63'Thunderbird (my dream car), southern accents, spectator shoes, spiritualism, tamara de lempicka, the all-american professional girls baseball league, theremins, tikis, tinted postcards, turner classic movies, ukulele, vintage advertisments, vintage erotica, vintage pin-ups, vintage sheet music
1920's and 30's dance music and blues, vintage cabaret, tex-mex, surf, mariachi, hawaiian, bossa nova, western swing, bebop jazz, rockabilly, 60's garage rock, ambrose, annette hanshaw, the boswell sisters, the coon-sanders nighthawks, the mound city blues blowers, al jolson, ray noble, al bowlly, ted weems, ted lewis, fats waller, fred waring, rudy vallee, cab calloway, eddie cantor, bix beiderbecke, louis armstrong, jack teagarden, eddie lang and joe venuti, dick powell, the gershwins, dorothy fields, cole porter, irving berlin, jane green, lee morse, marion harris, sophie tucker, ruth etting, cliff edwards, bing crosby, bob crosby, harold arlen, johnny mercer, hoagy carmichael, jerome kern, tommy and jimmy dorsey, glenn miller, artie shaw, kay kyser, duke ellington, paul whiteman, guy lombardo, lionel hampton, rogers and hart, henry mancini, frank sinatra, bobby darin, johnny ray, louis prima and keely smith, kay starr, jo stafford, dizzy gillispie, charlie parker, chet baker, louis jordan, ella fitzgerald, django reinhardt, billie holiday, ethel waters, nina simone, the mills brothers, dinah washington, sarah vaughan, judy garland, the andrew sisters, benny goodman, gene krupa, bessie smith, blind lemon jefferson, blind willie mctell, memphis minnie, sister rosetta tharpe, robert johnson, leadbelly, howlin' wolf, edith piaf, tino rossi, maurice chevalier, lucienne boyer, france gall, francoise hardy, jacques brel, esquivel, martin denny, yma sumac, antonio carlos jobim, astrud gilberto, les baxter, herb alpert and the tijuana brass, the monkees, the animals, simon and garfunkel, the beatles, early stones, the kinks, ccr, clara rockmore, leon theremin, raymond scott, the smiths, morrissey, joy division, felt, new order, echo and the bunnymen, xtc, velvet underground, television, kate bush, the chameleons, the go-betweens, robert forster, the clean, the fall, devo, the jam, lloyd cole, buzzcocks, magazine, the decemberists, yo la tengo, stereolab, the aislers set, broadcast, the divine comedy, belle & sebastian, the walkmen, they might be giants, the shins, the magnetic fields, the monochrome set, tindersticks, the clash, nick cave and the bad seeds, depeche mode, P.I.L., pulp, siouxsie and the banshees, interpol, neutral milk hotel, wilco, willard grany conspiracy, jim white, johnny dowd, robyn hitchcock, elvis costello, leonard cohen, scott walker, lee hazelwood, jolie holland, janet klein and her parlour boys, the handsome family, gillian welch, michael nesmith, gram parsons, the band, johnny cash, buddy holly, roy orbison, the everly brothers, the louvin brothers, the stanley brothers, flatt and scruggs, the original carter family, bob wills and his texas playboys, al dexter, spade cooley, floyd tillman, patsy montana, carolina cotton, the maddox brothers and rose, hank thompson, jim reeves, eddy arnold, roy acuff, hank snow, the chuck wagon gang, the browns, merle haggard, merle travis, faron young, george jones, porter wagner, lefty frizell, johnny horton, ray price, loretta lynn, buck owens, harland howard, cindy walker, patsy cline, tammy wynette, hank williams sr., webb pierce, marty robbins, jimmie rodgers,wanda jackson
Films from the 20's, 30's, and 40's, Pre-codes!, Film Noir, The Marx Brothers, French New Wave,Preston Sturges, Ingmar Bergman, Carl Dreyer, Tod Browning, Carol Reed, Rene Clair, Michael Powell, David Lean, Orson Welles, Frank Capra, William Dieterle, Billy Wilder, Edgar G.Ulmer, Fritz Lang, Merchant Ivory, Woody Allen, Kubrick, Mike Leigh, Tim Burton, Ed Wood, and Wes Anderson
I have no use for tv, other than to watch baseball and TCM.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jane Austen, Edgar Allen Poe, Baudelaire, The Brontes, P.G.Wodehouse, James Thurber, C.S. Lewis, W.Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, John O'Hara, Thomas Wolfe, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Ellen Glasgow, Thorne Smith, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Colette, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Dorothy Parker, J.D. Salinger, The Beat writers, Raymond Chandler, Sarah Waters, Angela Carter, Susanna Clarke, Megan Abbott, and pretty much everything published by Taschen and Chronicle. Plus the single greatest magazine in the known universe... ATOMIC RANCH!
An assortment of entertainment folks from the 20's and 30's, broody literary characters, dead country singers, and the occasional filmmaking pioneer.