Anything that responds with musicality when tickled, teased, strummed, plucked, blown, boogled, or beaten. Words. Sleight of hand. People and records of the things that people do. Science. The end of the world. Other worlds. Pinball. Punnery. Drawing pictures of naked women.
Whoever put the bop in the bop-sha bop-sha bop. Totally. Also Ani DiFranco, Isaac Asimov, Terry Gilliam, Neil Peart, William Shatner, Amy Coats, Kurt Vonnegut, P.C. Hodgell, Johnny Depp, Oscar Wilde, Lenny Lipton, and Lester Bangs. i also really wonder whatever became of Chris Nelson.That sounds like an unbearable dinner party, for sure.
Nina Hagen, Sing-Sing, Igor Stravinski, The Last, Mike Watt, Magazine, Captain Beefheart, Eric Dolphy, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Autolux, Minutemen, Ricky Nelson, The Beautiful South, Silversun Pickups, Ray Charles, ALL, Django Reinhardt, Dave Brubeck, Alice Cooper, Patti Smith, Gang of Four, NoMeansNo, Gentle Giant, Snow Patrol, MC5, Joe Jackson, Kate Bush, The Jam, Buzzcocks, X, Misfits, Richard Hell, 10cc, Yardbirds, Untied States, Flaming Lips, Oingo Boingo, No Knife, Cursive, Rush, Ani DiFranco, Mr. Bungle, Shudder to Think, Jethro Tull, Faraquet, Television, Talking Heads, The Cure, pre-80s Stevie Wonder, Steve Howe era Yes, Sex Pistols, Tom Waits, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, They Might Be Giants, Lagwagon, The Specials, Elvis Costello, Chuck Berry, Beatles, Wes Montgomery, Hagfish, The Clash, Frank Zappa, John Coletrane, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Sunny Day Real Estate, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, T. Rex, Roxy Music, Abba, Black Sabbath, Cardigans, The Smiths, Ed Matus' Struggle, Sir Millard Mulch, Tepado, Landing on Land, Escape From Gorilla City, Liv Tyler in the Universe, Simon Said..., Smile for the Satellite, Heronymous, Blanket, The Doses, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Minor Threat, John Zorn, Led Zepplin, Iron Maiden, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, Mars Volta, Tears For Fears,The Housemartins, Jane's Addiction, Queen, Tori Amos, Stan Getz, Thelonius Monk, Weezer, The Who, The Police, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Jeff Buckley, Dead Kennedys, Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Louis Armstrong, Sara Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Cab Calloway, Blue Oyster Cult, Smoking Popes, Bjork, Portishead, Beastie Boys, DMX, Grateful Dead, Concrete Blonde, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Buddy Holly, Spike Jones, Ozzy Osbourne, Dar Williams, Blondie, OutKast, Billy Joel, Fugees, Erin McKewoen, Ben Folds Five, Lusk, Supertramp, Foo Fighters, Sam Prekop, Ilium, Parliament, Smashing Pumpkins, XTC, Madness, Coheed and Cambria, Archers of Loaf, GunsnRoses, Devo, Wire, Dead Milkmen, Ramones, No Doubt, Bob Marley, Cheap Trick, The Doors, The Monkees, The The, Iggy Pop, Jackson 5, early Chicago, America, Charlie Parker, The Sundays, and King Crimson.
Brazil, Batman Begins, Better Off Dead, Donnie Darko, Big Lebowski, Millers Crossing, Cloak and Dagger, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Natural, The Sting, Trainspotting, Sneakers, 12 Monkeys, Evil Dead Trilogy, Blade Runner, Night of the Living Dead, The Kid, The Circus, The Great Dictator, Until the end of the World, Velvet Goldmine, Kill Bill, Conan the Barbarian, Jerimiah Johnson, Platoon, Apocolypse Now, Grosse Point Blank, Shadows and Fog, Trinity and Beyond, Unforgiven, A perfect world, Deep Red, Susperia, Tenebre, Endless Summer, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Miracle Mile, Last Night, Team America, Orgazmo, Charade, Underground, Santa Sangre, Naked Lunch, Alien 1-4, Tom Jones, Princess Bride, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Shakespeare in love, Princess and the Pirate, Dazed and Confused, Three Amigos, Star Wars, Fight Club, Heathers, Fargo, Breathless, Rebel Without a Cause, City of Lost Children, Amilee, Delicatessen, Casablanca, all Marx Brothers.
Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Prisoner, South Park, Simpsons, Muppets, Tales From The Crypt, Alfred Hitchcock presents, The Daily Show, Batman, Quantum Leap, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, Conan O'Brien, Johnny Carson, Muppet Babies, Looney Tunes, Wonder Years
E.T.A. Hoffman, Hyperspace, Catch 22, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Lester Bangs, JD Salinger, Philip K Dick, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde, Shirley Jackson, Fritz Leiber, William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Infinite Jest, Beautiful and Damned, Chronicles of Narnia, Peter Pan, Tao the Watercourse Way, Horror of Hickory Bay, Civilwarland in bad decline, Dark of the Moon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Cyteen, No Irish No Blacks No Dogs, the complete pinball book.
Shy Aberman, Buckaroo Banzai, George McLain Sr.