art, music, leather, classic nintendo, eye make-up, drawing, digital photography, animation, paper mache, bum wine, shows (concert, film, and/or theater),
daydreaming, nightmares, animals; kitties are great, cloudy days, delicious food, vintage cartoons, the Edwardian period, surrealism, final cut pro, open source graphics software, puppy cuddles with my Josie, vacations, hanging out at night like in an Edward Hopper painting, watching grass grow and paint dry, misogynists and misandrists falling in love, walking around public places just to look at stuff...and possibly touch things.
You. Otherwise cooler people than you.
HIM, Rasputina, Deadboy and the Elephantmen, the Cure, Real Life, Duran Duran, the Horrorpops,
the Distillers, KMFDM, My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, the Smiths, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Snog, Christian Death, 45 Grave, Tears for Fears, Hank III, the B52's, Skunk Anansie, the Guano Apes, Weird Al Yankovic, Marianne Faithful, Josephine Baker, Helen Kane, Bessie Smith, cute little Japanese punk bands, crap, I'll think of more later...
Kung Fu Hustle, The Cremaster Cycle, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Earth Girls are Easy, Rock and Rule, Run Lola Run, Sin City, both volumes of Kill Bill, Un Chien Andalou, A Clockwork Orange, Black Cat White Cat, El Dia de Bestia, Steel Magnolias, Beautiful Dreamer, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Gremlins, Gremlins 2, Tank Girl, Don Bluth movies, various anime, Max Fleisher animated theatrical shorts, old Disney animated features like Dumbo and Sleeping Beauty
Drawn Together, Absolutley Fabulous, Sailor Moon, Samurai Pizza Cats, Ren and Stimpy, Daria, The Simpsons, Futrama, Max Fliesher, Tex Avery and Bob Clampet cartoons, Peanuts holiday specials, basically if it's animated I'm gonna like it. That and reruns of the Golden Girls, and stuff that was on Nickelodeon in the early 90s.
I don't read enough; here's some books and authors I like: Dubravka Ugresic, Monica Drake, Cathy's Book by Sean Stuart and Jordan Weisman, Gil's All Fright Diner, Valide, a Harem Stroy, Capitola the Madcap, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hop Frog, by Edgar Allan Poe, The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, Lost Souls, When Rabbit Howels, Naked Lunch, Tank Girl comics.
Ross Zirkle. Otherwise, hero worship takes away your personal power.