the advertising industry (it's more like a raging, cream-inducing infatuation really), emotional control, progression (of the mind, body, community, human species), posterior fossa arachnoid cysts, human nature, insurgent country, hedonism, large urban landscapes, innovation, unheated political talks, pro-sex feminism, drama-free individuals, woody allen, penis hips, bloody fights, and anything remotely creative
brilliant creative directors
bedwetting WASPs
naked pacific islanders
fellatio trainers
sushi masters
peruvian abmasters
the brilliant and the debaucherous
buddhist businessmen
hermans hermits
modern day pachucos
pickled philanthropists
penis puppeteers
manhunt competitors
more chola fashionistas
non-italian clubbers
people who know that robbie fulks ryan adams
asian country fans
clean baseball fans
non-lame wallflower fans
not mario calire
kids my age who aren't poor
junior brown fans
in fact anyone who knows the difference between junior brown and jackson browne.
genres americana|alt country|no depression|insurgent country, punkabilly, rockabilly, STRAIGHT country, late 80s/early 90s college rock, early 90s dance/house, late 70s early 80s progressive punk/new wave, all those alternative bands that weren't dirty between 1994 and 1996, 60s girl groups, modern day electroclash, 80s industrial, digital hardcore, drum n bass, big beat, IDM, classical (post baroque), jazz piano, motown, experimental postmetal, concious hip hop, and most artists on trampoline, warp, and bloodshot records. top 4 the wallflowers, tom waits, victoria williams, uncle tupelo other artists the jayhawks, old 97s, pulp, the legendary shack shakers, critters buggin, robbie fulks, the waco brothers, impossible recording machine, hank III, split lip rayfield, the sea and cake, django reinhardt, new order, ozomatli, mccoy tyner, thelonius monk, tbone burnett, danny elfman (i kid, i kid), pj harvey, redric chopin , golden smog, atari teenage riot, sam phillips, sergei rachmaninov, jimmy edgar, matt pond PA, russian circles, mason jennings, the meat purveyors last week
beyond the valley of the dolls, five easy pieces, plaster caster, human traffic, polyester, batman, boot hill, das clown, texas dildo masquerade, seamless, pret a porter, the teenage apocalypse trilogy, lemony snickets, willy wonka, german porn, spaghetti westerns, filthy horror films (especially japanese!) woody allen
jericho, man vs wild, coupling (uk version), countdown with keith olbermann, curb your enthusiasm, real time with bill maher, dr who, arrested development, real sex, the sex of..., the history channel, bravo.
Il Cortegiano (english translation: The Book of the Courtier) by Baldassare Castiglione, Galateo by Giovanni Della Casa, House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly, Independent Nation: How Centrism Can Change American Politics by John P. Avalon, Baseball Ballerina by Kathryn Cristaldi, The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, How to Teach Your Baby to Read by Glenn J. Doman, Cash by Jonny Cash, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, Standing Firm by Dan Quayle, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter
Not fuckin' Mario Calire (fer damn sure), Larry David, Bill Maher, Teddy Roosevelt (philosophically), Cynthia Plaster Caster, Liz Phair (my cool points just went down), Neil French (the ballsy, yet unsexist version), George Lois, Bill Bernbach, and myself.