Music, literature, fine liquors, cigarettes, recreational drugs, civil war history, flan, bayonettes, sailboat etiquette, BET, disco dancing and the worship of our dark lord, Satan.
the Cosmic Trigger.
The Clash, Wilco, Jeff Buckley, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, Oingo Boingo, XTC, Echo and the Bunnymen, Neil Young, Atmosphere, Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, SCI, Murs, Spoon, Blue Scholars, Common Market, Radiohead, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Frank Zappa, Primus, Neutral Milk Hotel, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The Cure, Television, The Residents, The Replacements, Spoon, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Keller Williams, New Order, Joy Division, Oysterhead, Les Claypool, Mike Patton, Fantomas, The Misfits...and on and on and on...
EvilDead, Blade Runner, Trainspotting, Citizen Kane, Rashomon, The Third Man, Fear and Loathing, Batman, Smoke, Dead Man, Brazil, The Hobbit, Snakes on a Motherfucking Plane
ATHF, Space Ghost, The Food Network, The History Channel, Iron Chef, Bowling for Kittens. Brak Show, Sealab 2021, Chopper Dave, The Daily Show...
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson, Crash - J.G. Ballard, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galxay (and complete works) - Douglas Adams, The Crystal World - J.G. Ballard, Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain, The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien, Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad, Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.and the absolute greaest, most influential, important, sacred, mystical, best articulated run-on sentence of a poem in the history of the English language: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Elliot.
Slug, Batman, Bruce Campbell, Adam Steinbaugh, Purple Sam, tony, Christian Bale, Patrick Bateman, Joe Strummer, David Byrne, the mortals, Sergio Leone, Glen Danzig and Jeff Tweedy.