Politics, TV watching, Photography, Improv Comedy, Pop Culture, NYC History, Coney Island, Dreams.
Music:
Punk, Reggae, New Wave, Power Pop and Garage, 60's, 70's and 80's,Hard Rock 70's, British Invasion 60's, Rockabilly 50's and 80's, emo or Nerd rock 90's to presents times, and any sound that reaches deep into my soul (that's another category I like).Groups I like, The Ramones, The Beatles, The Magnetic Fields, Jethro Tull, The New York Dolls, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Yes, the Dictators, The Smiths, Morrisey, the Moody Blues, ELP, Interpol, The Damned, Bow, Wow, Wow, The Cramps, Electic Light Orchestra, The Kinks, The Animals, Queen, Areosmith, The Yardbirds, Robin Trower, OMD, Led Zep., They Might Be Giants, The John Barry Orchestra (007 flicks), Special, Madness, The Beat, The Selector, Yellowman, Gregory Issacs, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Ken Booth, The Clash (again for Reggae) and soooooooooooooooooooo many others!
Movies:
The first 5 James Bond films, the rest of the Bond serise, The Right Stuff, Casablanca, Fahrenheit 911, Rock and Roll High School, Hard Days Night and Help, The first 5 Marx Brother's Films, Taking of Pelham 123, Early Woody Allen(before he was afraid of being funny), the original Planet of the Apes, Dr. Strangelove, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Up in Smoke and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, Sky Captian and the World of Tomorrow, The Aviator, Taxi Driver, Goodfellows, Meanstreets, Rockers, The Harder They Come, Quadrophenia, North by Northwest, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Frenzy, Blazing Saddles, The Producers, The Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and all Curly 3 Stooges shorts.
Television:
Air America (it's radio but it is broadcast like TV), The Daily Show, Las Vegas, The West Wing, Uncle Floyd, Countdown w/ Keith Oberman, Modern Marvels, Monster Garage and House, South Park, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Soupy Sales Show (Kiddie show only exists in my memory of growing up in the 60's. He was thrown off of channel 5 for telling the joke,"what begins with f and ends with uck? Firetruck!" He also told kids to go into their parent wallets and send him the green paper inside for which he recieved 1 week off), Queer Eye (I have learned so much from that show), Star Trek( I used to go to the first Star Trek Conventions in the 70's, mostly to buy old issues of Mad Magizine), The Prisoner, Monty Python's Flying circus, the Young Ones, Ab Fab, Black Adder, Mr Bean, The Avengers, The Man From Uncle, Lost in Space(the 1st season is really good!) , The Upright Citizens Brigade, Crank Yankers, Reno 911, Fireball XL5, DoDo the Kid From Outer Space, Speed Racer, Loony Tunes, NY1.
Books:
Don't Think Of An Elephant by George Lakoff.
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson.
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe.
Anything else from the last 2 authors.
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Heroes:
All those with courage to speak truth to power.
