Clouds, Cowboy Boots, Cleavage, cream (in any form, preferrably whipped), caffeine (mmm Stumptown), crosswords, rainbow colours, spelling things the british way, organics, headphones (the isolation), lemon flavoured things, happy hour, punchcards, inebriation, images behind my eyelids, wikipedia, kitty cats! cool breezes, orange Sixlets, piano duets, sleeping in all day, spontaneous sudden death stop/start smoking and sobriety programs (it's the thought that counts), detox, retox, yoga, pink ladies, shower singing, applying lotion (rubbing it in!), solitude, dissonance, voyeurism, hedonism
Charleston Chew
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The Jesus and Mary Chain, the Smiths, Bowie (mmm glitter), T. Rex, BRMC, LOVE, Kinks, Blonde Redhead, Ratatat, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, the Hollies, Herman's Hermits, Stars, Byrds, Troggs, Zombies, Animals, Cars, Faint, Crowded House, the Pixies, Warlocks, Ride, Bright Eyes, Love & Rockets, the Faint, Psychedelic Furs, Talking Heads, Pulp, Stone Roses, Primal Scream, BLUR!!, Supergrass, Charlatans UK, London Suede, Interpol, Radiohead, Belle & Sebastian, the Verve (yeah I'm a Brit Pop fiend), Devo, Love and Rockets, Bauhaus, Joy Division, New Order, Echo & the Bunnymen, Adam Ant, basically any good new wave, shoegaze, electroclash, and lots of random stuff ELO, The Magnetic Fields, Gram Parsons, Ryan Adams, Spoon, Jeff Buckley, Clinic, Wilco, Interpol, Elliot Smith, Lou Reed & the Velvet Underground, Air, the Cure, Doves, Slowdive, the Rapture, Of Montreal, Built to Spill, My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Warlocks, Dead Meadow, Arcade Fire, Gris Gris, Animal Collective, M83, Spiritualized, Mojave 3, Slowdive, Trembling Blue Stars, Devandra Banhardt, Lush, The Kills, Dios Malos, Ambulance, Autolux, Ride, Joy Zipper, James, Halo Benders, Modest Mouse, New Orleans R&B circa 1965 word to my man Allan Toussaint, hmmm...what else...oh my god I almost forgot the Beatles! Duran Duran, that's right mothafucka!! oh yeah and Fleetwood Mac! Hoot! I could never list it all...
Anything by Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket!!!), Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man's my fave), Michel Gondry, Coen Bros, Hitchcock, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Eagle vs. Shark, Asian Horror, Apocolypse Now, Labyrinth, Amelie (anything with Audrey Tatou, for that matter), Velvet Goldmine, Quills, Amadeus, American Beauty, Election, Benny and Joon, Waking Life, Donnie Darko, SECRETARY, Rules of Attraction, Being John Malkovitch, Lost in Translation, The Goonies, The Virgin Suicides, Memento, The Princess Bride, Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version with Collin Firth), Sin City, The Big Lebowski, Heathers, Eternal Sunshine, Office Space, Fight Club, 2001, 28 Days Later, The Devil's Backbone, Amores Perros, City of God, Waiting for Guffman et. al., Spinal Tap, Jesus Christ Superstar (I know it by heart), cheesy 80s flicks, any documentary about music, art, or perverse subject matter.
PBS!! The Office (UK version), Arrested Development, LITTLE BRITAIN!! Curb Your Enthusiasm, Flight of the Conchords, the Family Guy, Extras, Weeds, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Daily Show, Ali G, Upright Citizens Brigade, the Twilight Zone, X Files, Twin Peaks, Strangers with Candy, E True Hollywood stories (for the music cues alone), Reno 911, Charlie Rose, the OC, and really I hate television, but TV on DVD is entirely another matter.
Thesauruses, Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Dave Eggers & all of that McSweeney's shit, Douglas Coupland, Bret Easton Ellis, Camus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, The Beach by Alex Garland, The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Geek Love, The Dark Tower series, travel guides, The Naked Chef!!!!! and loads of others
Monkey. Even though we are still working out his "issues," he is the sweetest and most understanding of all.