the black dots!, the vandals, the offspring, junior senior, foo fighters, outkast, the postal service, cake, me first and the gimmie gimmies, save ferris, nerf header, garbage, queen, the american wake, ben folds, and lots of other stuff from lots of other genres
zoolander, shawshank redemption, wet hot american summer, airplane, blues brothers, kentucky fried movie, pulp fiction, the life aquatic with steve zissou, amelie, napoleon dynamite, stand by me, jawbreaker, dirty dancing, a dirty shame, american beauty, resevoir dogs, the baxter, lost in translation, the first batman with michael keaton, dragnet, ghostbusters, and absolutely everything with samuel l. jackson even if it sucks.also, i saw i heart huckabees and absolutely no fucking clue what that movie was about. the end.
the old tom and jerry episodes where they beat the crap outta each other. the oc, simpsons, family guy, all that daytime court show crap, reno 911, jeopardy, that family feud episode where richard carr asked a contestant to name an animal that starts with the letter T and she says "pteradactyl", the L word, golden girls, m*a*s*h before it got preachy, desparate housewives, nip/tuck, the a-team, cops, the apprentice, made for tv movies about martha stewart, and i'll probably add more to this list as i remember crap. bear with me.
catch-22 by joseph heller, flaming iguanas by erika lopez, push by sapphire, stoned naked and looking in my neighbors window by gabriel jeffrey, america by jon stewart (drool) and the daily show, valley of the dolls by jacqueline susan, just about everything stephen king writes, pure drivel by steve martin, everything calvin and hobbes, every beavis and butthead book that i've ever read is awesome, and love the kurt vonnegut. and is it totally nerdy to say the joann fabrics guide to creativity? you can't knock something that helped you make a bedspread, you know what i'm sayin?
Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.