Telling scary stories, dreaming, drawing, playing music, making masks, goofing off, playing with wax, painting amateurishly, starting projects then losing interest, monsters, extinct animals, cooking strange and appetizing feasts to qwell the hungers of outrageous beasts, ritualistic practices of distant or anachronistic cultures, contortionists, anatomy, botany, taking things apart and putting them back together again sometimes, gift wrapping, making hair ornaments, exercising, wandering around, traveling, learning languages, vintage clothes, impoosible suits, 70's punk, acting, singing, staying inspired, getting out of myself, unraveling life's curious mysteries
Loners, squares, misfits, oddballs, crackpots, weirdos, losers, fiends, ghouls, fools, madmen, creeps, ne'er-do-wells, lost causes, scallawags, freaks and drunks.
demented country, broken blues, greasy R&B, frantic rockabilly, primitive rock'n'roll, garage rock, frat rock, swamp rock, budget rock, proto punk, trashy punk, noisy new wave, surf, hot rod, mod, freakbeat, psychedelic, power pop, one-man bands, outsider and trucker music as well as Brazilian and Cuban numbers from the 50s. Oh, and some wacky bachelor pad jingles.
The Power of Ten (and other movies by Charles and Ray Eames), The 400 Blows, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, Night of the Living Dead, Atomic Cafe, the Decline of Western Civilization, What About Me?, Over the Edge, Rumblefish, Repo Man, Scarface, Taxi Driver, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Filth and the Fury, After Hours, Rat Fink-a-Boo-Boo!, Women of the World (the one that has footage of women in the 60's actually having the skins of their faces removed in order to have it grow back in a "younger" state), Tokyo-ga, Rashamon, Night On Earth, Pan's Labyrinth, Blue Velvet, Babel, The Royal Tannnenbaums, Little Miss Sunshine, Bottle Rocket, Easy Rider, Deliverance, Ed Wood, Crumb, The Wizard of Oz
Taxicab Confessions, Miami Ink, Bad Girls Club, Project Runway, Intervention, Top Chef, Rescue Me, The Maury Povich Show, Cheaters
Post Office, Please Kill Me, Wuthering Heights, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? All Quiet on the Western Front, The Catcher in the Rye, The Outsiders, Alcoholics Anonymous, Dolce & Gabbana Fashion album, After the Funeral, the Botany of Desire, 1000 Tatoos, the Wisconsin Death Trip, So You're Going to Prison
Chuck Wepner, Richard Feynman, Ernest Shakleton, Ernest Hemmingway, William Faulkner, Arthur Killer Kane, Raymond Scott, Ralph Gean, Dr. Suess, Muhammad Ali, Charles and Ray Eames, Andy Warhol, Iggy Pop, Bill and Dr. Bob, Wolfgang Mozart, Buckminster Fuller, Klaus Nomi, Daniel Johnston, Caravaggio, Frieda Kahlo, eccentrics and pioneers and underdogs of the world, everywhere!