Stand-up comedy. Suburban living. Smoked pork.
Cheerleaders selling fireworks. The adults responsible for letting cheerleaders sell fireworks as some sort of fund-raising exercise. For they are firework-vending-cheerleader enablers. And for this, they should be thanked.
The ridgid, Stalinist rhetoric of Judas Priest. The fluid paintbrush abstractions of John Coltrane. Not at the same time, but in very close proximity. Unyeilding opinions and Picasso soundscapes, basically.The look on Miles Davis' face as he prowls the stage, not playing, on the Isle of White DVD. The look ony my face when he does start playing.Led Zeppelin, particularly when engaged in evoking the imminent arrival of Viking raiding parties through the medium of the poncy, blonde-curled shriek of robert plant and the fat riffage of skinny Jimmy Page. Oh Valhalla I, indeed, am cuh-uh-uh-uh-uh-umming!
Anything involving Peru, Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog (at the same time). Anything involving "extravision", deep space and green organic matter. Anything involving Martin Sheen going up river.
Monday Night Football, Reno 911, The Office (yes, both UK and US), LOST, and nothing at all that my TiVo recommends. I'm Alan Partridge. Fast Show.
Yes, we have some of those.
Eugene Mirman, Billy Connolly, Stewart Lee, Greg Proops, Todd Barry, various Iron Chefs, Wonder Woman, Lemmy from Motorhead, Rob Halford from Judas Priest, Homer Simpson from Iron Maiden. Also Will Franken, Bill Hicks, Dylan Moran, Steve Coogan.