Joe Collins, Orgone accumulators, theremins, gay Frenchmen, songs with handclaps and/or cowbells, Meowmers, the Tiger Bear, straw boaters, burlesque, the Bonadonna family, adventures, army men, lincoln logs, lingerie, passing notes, Lambrettas and Vespas, ruffle butt panties, tap dancing, doing the pony, watching fireworks, ukeleles, absinthe, Bunn and Buswell, Jergen Milkwolf, zombies, building forts, 80's commercials and PSA's, bentwood chairs, Blixa Bargeld's scream, foxes, kitty cats, bowler hats, Jack Tripper shorts, lipgloss, T.V. show theme songs, superhero capes, sailor suits, accordians, banjos, jam, underoos, Jhonen Vasquez comics, 80's cartoons, costumes, party dresses and ball gowns, murder ballads, rubber duckies, songs about hobos, Bill Cosby records, Sesame Street records, skinny neckties, finger waves, pin curls, watching people who run with conviction, writing songs about clowns with Mancuso, Jammie Dodgers...
Nigel Tufnel
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, the Birthday Party, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Einsturzende Neubauten, Crime and the City Solution, Barry Adamson, Anita Lane, Congo Norvell, Pulp, Belle and Sebastian, Serge Gainsbourg, Cat Stevens, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground, John Cale, Todd Rundgren, Roy Acuff, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Elliott Smith, the Beatles, Poison, Hanoi Rocks, Thin Lizzy, Quasi, Grandaddy, the Flaming Lips, Die Haut, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, the Decemberists, the Dirty Three, Mick Harvey, the Faces,the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, the Pixies, Kraftwerk, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, the Ink Spots, George Formby,Ween, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Animals, the Association, the Monkees, Kids of Widney High, the Shins, Broken Social Scene, the New York Dolls, T.Rex, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Stereolab, Folk Implosion, Ween, Apples in Stereo, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Sebadoh, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, the Pogues, the Toy Dolls, Ute Lemper, etc...
The Warriors, Phantom of the Paradise, Amelie, Wings of Desire, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Total Recall, Raising Arizona, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Cannibal! The Musical, It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Major and the Minor, It Happened One Night, Quadrophenia, Pink Flamingos, Farinelli, Proof, The Professional, Trainspotting, Ziggy Stardust the Motion Picture, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Phantom of the Paradise, Love in the Afternoon, Sabrina, Wet Hot American Summer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ghostworld, and pretty much anything with Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, or Buster Keaton....
Peep Show, The Office (BBC), Men Behaving Badly, Father Ted, Absolutely Fabulous, The Young Ones, Sex and the City, Invader Zim, the Chris Kirk Knife Show, the Galloping Gourmet, those old Disney cartoons that showed what life was supposed to be like in the future, Graham Norton, MST3K, Sheilds and Yarnell,Taxi, Peep Show, Pants Off Dance Off....
Oscar Wilde, Dostoevsky, Irvine Welsh, "The Little Prince", "Geek Love", "The Frog King", Nick Hornby, Chuck Palaniuk, Nabakov, Greene, Rimbaud, Milton, Capote, Vonnegut, Corso, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs...
Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan and