Ready the Jet.
Old buildings. Places people have forgotten. Junky cameras. Film. Horrible, horrible movies.
Witty old ladies who chain-smoke and drink beer.
Winos.
Aficionados of old, strange, or bad movies and music.
guided by voices, mission of burma, the jam, husker du, stereolab, kinks, swervedriver, small faces, the who, pixies, replacements, left banke, burt bacherach, american music club, dionne warwick, consonant, belle and sebastion, grant hart, minutemen, slint, buzzcocks, fats waller, devo, jobim, lola flores, PiL, black flag, wire, the zombies, ennio morricone, john barry, beatles, the stooges, the vapors, the clash, nick drake, the ventures, the marketts, gene pitney, hollies, pretty things, chavez, bridget bardot, annette henshaw, edith piaf, sebadoh, the unrequited loves, yma sumac, blind idiot god, pavement, mercury rev, god head silo, lee hazelwood, martin denny, frank black, polvo, wagner, richard strauss, bob dylan, wilco, chavez, dumbwaiters, bo diddly, coltrane, bird, the sinatras, pullout method, nuggets, pebbles, the animals, hawkwind, bomp records, garage, chad and jeremy, garden variety, dumbwaiters, pink floyd with syd barret, leadbelly, gerry and the pacemakers, yardbirds, the thermals, sst records, the ides of march, the lemon pipers, freddy and the dreamers, xtc, chad and jeremy, gone, the outlaws, elp, looking glass, cream, ccr, the byrds, wings, saccharine trust, the nils, dave brubeck, matt pond pa, lovin' spoonful, kyu sakamoto, blue cheer, we five, m83, nada surf, teenage fanclub, oldies, kxlu!!
Jaws, The Godfather 1&2, Lord Love a Duck, The Time of your Life, the Naked Pray, Sunset Boulevard, The Party, French Connection 1&2, Pickup on South Street, Patton, Shock Corridor, Double Indemnity, Chinatown, Touch of Evil, Lawrence of Arabia, The Graduate, Dr. Strangelove, High Noon, Seconds, Wages of Fear, The Deer Hunter, Night of the Hunter, Godzilla, Gamera, The Killer, the Killing, Sixth Sense, Black Lizard, Casablanca, Rushmore, Dirty Dozen, Evil Dead, She Devils on Wheels, Out of the Past, Midnight Cowboy, Bucket of Blood, A Hard Days Night, Help, The Kids are Alright, DOA, The Girl Hunters, A Clockwork Orange, Roman Holiday, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Bicycle Thief, original Italian Job, original Get Carter, Ipcress File, The Exorcist, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Conversation, Manhatten, The Longest Day, The Lost Weekend, Dark Passage, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Kid, 2001, Groundhog Day, The Razor's Edge, Planet of the Apes, Day the Earth Stood Still, Sophie's Choice, Tales of Manhatten, Mad Max, L'Atalante... just to name a few
Sadly, I have no cable - thus... Netflix, Life & Times, Conan, Charlie Rose, Frontline, Nova, California's Gold, ARTS, Jimmy Kimmel, the news crew of KCAL 9, South Park, AFV, crap on KDOC, Cheaters, Globe Trekker, Rick Steves, Mexican Game Shows, Tavis, Barry Kibrick, errrrr...
fifty-cent books from thrift stores... lots of 'em, nonfiction too, Frederic Brown, Confederacy of Dunces, Jim Thompson, W. Somerset Maugham, Lee Child, books about viruses, Harry Whittington, Bukowski, John D. Macdonald, Michael Crighton, Charles Willeford, pulp garbage, true crime, blah dee da blah...
Billy Wilder, Robert Pollard, Conrad Hall, Phil Hendrie, Ultraman, Inoshira Honda, Dan Clowes, Huell Howser, Dr. Paul Bearer, Scott Ritter, Dennis Miller, Lionel, skeptics of sheep-luring hoopla... Dennis Prager, Sam Fuller, Stanley Kubrick, Barry Kibrick