stimulating conversation, fun, ideas, adventure, politics, love & kisses, road trips, lunacy, the holland bar, sailing, and my evil cat sweetie
if not Pee-wee Herman, then Richard Dawkins
bix beiderbecke, kraftwerk, the soul stirrers, chet baker, aphex twin, broadcast, cliff richard, misfits, jonathan richman, boogie down productions, atom heart, fugazi, the meters, jim croce, edith piaf, sabbath, jawbreaker, lynard skynard, and belle & sebastian
fassbinder, sergio leone, lars van trier, werner herzog, buckaroo banzai, orson welles, errol morris, michel gondry, silent vampire movies, and akira
the young ones, singing detective, kids in the hall, npr
dashiell hammett, Don Quixote, Sherlock Holmes, a confederacy of dunces, grapes of wrath, love in the time of cholera, raymond chandler, DH Lawrence, Chris Ware
Klaus Kinski and Henry Darger