Poetry, fiction, fonts, politics, existentialist psychotherapy, visual art, humans, insects, human insects, small press, Ern Malley, music of many kinds, old kids' records that go "ding!" when you're supposed to turn the page in the accompanying book, writing, Kim Novak, crappy red wine
Other writers and other readers and people who make excellent music and perhaps play Scrabble.
The video below - that's me with the Angry Shoppers in 1993.
Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, The Clash, Randy Newman, Beth Orton, Ben Walker, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, Brenda Kahn, Nathan, The Pernice Brothers, Evalyn Parry, The Swan Silvertones, John Cale, The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Tiffany Lowe, Rachels, Chris Warren, John Otway, Preacher Jack, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Bob Dylan, Mozart sometimes, Tausig, Faure, Martha Wainwright, Aimee Mann, Liz Phair, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Ass Ponys, Glenn Gould, The Jayhawks, The Sex Pistols, The Fabulous Poodles, Bram Tchaikovsky, the other Tchaikovsky, The Arrogant Worms, Roy Zimmerman, Bar Mitzvah Brothers, The Foremen, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Helen Humes, Dinah Washington, Be Good Tanyas, Carlene Carter, Johnny Cash, the Sensational Nightingales, Neko Case
The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Hard Eight, L'Age D'Or, The Gospel According to Matthew, Vertigo, Judy Berlin, American Friend, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, anything with Parker Posey, anything with Frederic Forrest, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Strictly Ballroom, Lady Eve, Bad Boy Bubby, Corrupt, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Ruling Class, The Strange Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Double Life of Veronique, Waiting for Guffman, Film (Beckett), Slums of Beverly Hills, Days of Heaven, Blood Simple
Mr. Terrific, Captain Nice, Get Smart, Randall and Hopkirk Deceased, Mister Ed, anything with Topo Gigio
Among the many authors I admire: Samuel Beckett, Patricia Highsmith, Vladimir Nabokov, George Saunders, Ron Padgett, David McFadden, A.M. Homes, Kenneth Gangemi, Mervyn Peake, Mark Strand, Joe Brainard, Javier Cercas, Frederick Seidel, A.L. Kennedy, Gil Adamson, Bill Zavatsky, Matthew Zapruder, Lisa Jarnot, George Orwell, Elyse Friedman, Stuart O'Nan, Evie Christie, Albert Camus, Gunnar Kopperud, Steve Venright, Michel Faber, Lillian Necakov, Lisa Shea, Leonard Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Bill Knott, Harryette Mullen, Bill Berkson, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, Tom Walmsley, Mark Laba, Opal Louis Nations, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Eugene Ionesco, Roberto Bolaño, Nicanor Parra, Graham Greene, Lisa Shea, Harold Pinter, Jason Heroux, Bill Berkson, Lynn Crosbie
Speedy Gonzales, Syd Ross, Noam Chomsky