Cartooning, Modesty Blaise, Uninterrupted sleep, Painting, Fine frozen cuisine, Video games, Liquor, Not getting monstrously fat, Comic books (Undergrounds from the '60s, Lee-Kirby Marvels, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Watchmen, Love & Rockets, Cerebus... lots more...), Occasional interaction with other humans, Doc Savage, Drag queens, She-Males, Regular women (basically anything in a skirt), Porn (only if it's free), Mexican wrestling (ask me about El Super Bobo), Self-preservation, Movies, TV, The butt. Not necessarily in that order.
Like-minded lunkheads, layabouts, doxies, dorks, tipplers, technophobes, scribblers, milfs, and scallywags.
XTC, Elliot Smith, Devo, Roxy Music, Pixies, The Beautiful South, Yeah yeah yeahs, Donovan, Fishboy, Sparks, Toadies, Kate Bush, Roy Orbison, De Novo Dahl, Ramones, Beatles, Sparks, Hollies, Steppenwolf, The Hives, Cheap Trick, Innocence Mission, Tori Amos, Pink Floyd, Blah blah ad nauseum
Crumb, True Grit, Early Cohen brothers, Chinatown, Guillermo Del Toro, The Conversation, All That Jazz, Terry Gilliam, Quentin Tarantino, Gimme Skelter, The Lord Of The Rings, Seven, The Long Riders, Wes Anderson, The Exorcist, Sling Blade, Alien, The Stink Of Flesh, Aliens, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah, Sexy Beast, David Cronenberg, Prime Cut, The Godfather, George Romero, Deliverance, Run Lola Run... I could go on...This poster is one I wrote with my pal Scott Phillips years ago. It won the grand jury prize at some high-falutin' film festival recently!
I loves me some TV. Sitting at my drawing table, I guess I watch more than most...Simpsons, Futurama, The Avengers, Northern Exposure, The Shield, Mythbusters, Sopranos, Bob Newhart, Buffy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Star Trek (within reason), Homicide, LEXX, Mystery Science Theater, Seinfeld, La Femme Nikita, Southpark, Alias, X-Files (except for the crappy later ones), Millennium...etc etc...So many dvds coming out... must turn more tricks so I can buy them all...
Fritz Leiber, Charles Willeford (the Hoke Mosely series in particular), Andrew Vachss (Flood, and the first several Burke novels... after that they're not so good), Arthur Byron Cover (Autumn Angels, An East Wind Coming), Dan Simmons (what a guy, he wrote the Hyperion series and some really great hard-boiled crime stuff too), Chuck Palahniuk (pronounced Paula-nick, or so I've heard. Fight Club, Choke), Tove Jansson (Comet in Moominland, Finn Family Moomintroll), Alice in Wonderland, Will Christopher Baer (Kiss Me, Judas), Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn), Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard (High Rise, Crash). I read a lot of comics too. We won't get into that here.
Robert Crumb, Ed Wood, The Flash, Marilyn Hamann, El Santo, Jack Kirby, Goddess Heather, Diane Fossey, Matt Groening, The Ramones, Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Ricky Gervais, Kate Bush, Al Golstein, Louise Brooks, Frank Frazetta, The Marquis De Sade, ummm... to be continued.