theatre, film, music, etc., purple bunnies (they're out there, I swear. And apparently they're very very dangerous!)
Tom Petty, Replacements, Stones, Wilco, Old 97's, Sleater Kinney, Billie Holiday, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Mercury Rev, Doors, Janis Joplin, Ramones, Bikini Kill, Nirvana, Public Enemy, Outkast, and on . . .and on . . and on. . .
1) Local Hero 2) Blade Runner 3) Casablanca 4) Life is Beautiful 5) Return of the Kingand others.
Northern Exposure, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, M*A*S*H, South Park, Seinfeld, Friends (yes, friends, got a problem with that?)
I read like a fiend. Neil Gsiman, Don Quixote-Cervantes, Dante, Mark Helprin, John Irving, Poppy Brite, Dennis Cooper, Darcy Steinke, Langston Hughes, William Blake, Thomas Hardy, Margaret Atwood, Rick Moody, D.H. Lawrence, Alan Moore, etc.And no matter how I try. I just don't get Jane Austen . . .so I've stopped trying.
My heroes have always been cowboys 'cause my momma didn't let me grow up to be one.