Mandolin, kaiju big battel, cartoons, donkey konga, the dewey decimal system, toys, bees, SQUID, robots, Wired, Juxtapoz, Batman. Taking apart big things and making smaller things. Dollar stores and late-night, ironic Wal-Mart excursions. Train stations. 8-bit NES. Painting all night, dreaming all day. Holding hands, singing loudly in the car when no one is around.
Secret nerds. Beautful geeks. Socially adept connoisseurs of the pop-obscure. And mostly, cute indie girls. Monogamists. Unicyclists. Cyclopedia.
Tullycraft, Dismemberment Plan, Mingus, Magnetic Fields, Tom Maxwell, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jethro Tull, DEVO, David Byrne, Residents, Tom Waits, Elysian Fields, They Might Be Giants, Ben Folds Five, Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, Robot Explosion, Owls, Dear Nora, Sugarplastic, Kaki King, Lambchop, Boy Crazy, Morphine, Medeski Martin and Wood, The Gazillions, Anna to the Infinite Power, The Softies, Boingo, Heikki, Springfactory, Jandek, Bikeride, Barcelona, The Billy Nayer Show.
Life Aquatic, Hellboy, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Gilbert Grape, Creating Rem Lezar, The American Astronaut.
Adult Swim, Who Wants To Be A Superhero, Iron Chef, The Office (either version). It's all background noise in an otherwise silent life.
Lovecraft. Harlan Ellison. Moorcock. Vonnegut.
Batman. Dave McKean. Super Mario, but only as a tanooki.