Drinking, arguing politics, other peoples' babies, Mexico, giving unsolicited advice, the collapse of Western civilization. Fernet Branca, extreme crash diets that make me seriously consider either just accepting myself as I am- or eating my friends' heads while they sleep, RZA's cheekbones.
Ignatius.
Immortal Technique, Mr. Lif, El-P, Binary Star, MF Doom, Edan, CanOx, C Rayz Walz, Babbletron, Aesop Rock,Eric B & Rakim,Kane, BDP, PE, Ultramagnetic MC's and all that shit that makes me look old, Wu, Leonard Cohen, Living Legends, Joe Strummer in anything, OpIvy, PUTS, that first Pharcyde, S.O.B., Juggaknots, R.A. The Rugged Man, Etta Otis and Nina, All Natural, Brother Ali, 2mex, Neil Diamond, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Visionaries, Ween, Wilco , Sage Francis, Pixies, John Prine, Hieroglyphics, Bored Stiff, Cage,Zion I, Little Brother, Live Radio etc.
Harold and Maude, Spirited Away, City of Lost Children, Brazil, Delicatessen, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Willy Wonka, Down By Law, Raising Arizona, O Brother, The Last Unicorn, Smoke Signals, Being John Malkovich, Desperate Living, Babettes Feast, Blue Velvet, Jackass, Withnail & I, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Female Trouble, Barton Fink, Mi Vida Loca, Santa Sangre, Mad Hot Ballroom
Spongebob Squarepants, Flight Of The Conchodsr, Cops, Strangers with Candy, Brass Eye, Voyages and all those late night doc's on the Hitler Channel, California's Gold, Top Chef, Survivorman
Everything Is Illuminated, Middlesex, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Seymour:An Introduction, Franny and Zooey, What Americans Believe, Tinderbox, Israel/Palestine, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, The Sheltering Sky, Out of It, Personae, Illuminatus Trilogy, Catcher, of course, Geek Love, Confederacy of Dunces, THe Professor and the Madman, God Is A Verb, Catch-22, The Zohar, The Little Prince, Propaganda and the Public Mind, Hidden Agendas, Women and Water, The Red Tent, Ask the Dust, Wine of Youth, The Road to Los Angeles, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, and any non-fiction from the ten cent Sally shelves.
Noam Chomsky, Rachel and Leah, Dorothy Parker, Alvin Straight, Moses De Leon seemed cool. Hugely obese chicks who still feel hot.