Past visions of the future, film, hiking, biking, camping, snorkeling, reading, travel both foreign and domestic, absinthe, bourbon, bizarre wines made from strange fruits, Southern history, World War One, road trips, Route 66, roadside attractions, mid-century design and fashion, swashbuckling adventure, Airstream trailers, super 8 film, tiki culture, exotica, mod culture, oceans, deserts, cooking, fine dining and drinking, esoteric history, military history, pop culture history, places haunted by Aaron Burr, abandoned architecture, backpacking, kayaking, science fiction, archaic technology, and the history of science. Also, you know, hollerin' and shootin' and drivin' fast and other American Southern past times.
Don, Streets of Fire, African Queen, Casablanca, North by Northwest, Thunder Road, Night of the Hunter, The Life Aquatic, Danger Diabolik, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madres, Foxy Brown, Wild Zero, Shaan, Dil Se, The President's Analyst, Our Man Flint, James Bond, Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Vertigo, Barbarella, The Big Sleep, Shanghai Gesture, things where masked Mexican wrestlers punch Frankenstein in the face, spaghetti westerns, anything where the villain laughs a lot, 1960s European spy films, Italian giallo, assorted zombie movies.
Mythbusters, American Chopper, Cowboy Bebop, Lupin III, stuff on the History International Channel, The Prisoner, Avengers, Invader Zim, Secret Agent, The Saint, Patlabor, Rome, King of the Hill, Young Ones, Lost, Battlestar Galactica (old and new), Deadwood, The Mighty Boosh, old 1970s television specials where Bigfoot comes down out of the mountains and shakes trailer homes.
Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, Tony Hillerman, Ian Fleming, Edward S. Aarons, Donald Hamilton, Haruki Murakami, Pico Iyer, Tim Cahill, Bill Bryson, HG Wells, Robert E. Howard.