film, art, music, aviation, theater, travel, history, food, just enough philosophy to avoid an aneurysm, Gotham NYC, sonic inventions, clandestinely photographing the Amish & trying new stuff
Noir gun molls / agnostic gospel singers / time machine repairmen / narcoleptic interstate truckers / usurpers of the profound and the profane / over-caffeinated writers / insomniac musicians / ribald raconteurs / absentee thoughtlords / the impossibly heterosexual sons of Oscar Wilde / fellow native NY'ers and outerborough bastards / Vargas pin-ups / Marla Singer / mutants worthy of Charles Xavier’s attention / terrorists for peace / tabby worshippers / enlightened perverts / romantic anarchists / intellecjools / the beleaguered ghosts of Gotham / sour mash swiggers / Old Scratch at the Crossroads / those who reside at the right hand side of the bell curve / Oscar Levant / Rita Hayworth / tall-dark-smoldering-ladies-with-the-Mediterranean-in-their- veins-polysyllabic-words-on-their-lips-and-beartraps-for-hip s / those with a surplus of longing and a prehistoric need for affection / the tired - the poor - the mentally muddled masses yearning to breathe free / those possessing what we Italians call chutzpah / the Man Who Sold the World / someone who’ll let me play my National Steel guitar in their bathroom / and lastly someone 'mad' as in'the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.' - jack kerouac
Prince, Bowie, Tom Waits, Goldfrapp, The Kills, Cheap Trick, Clinic, Arcade Fire, Gomez, Shivaree, Flaming Lips, Wilco, Bjork, Soul Coughing, Beck, Howlin' Wolf, Dj Shadow, White Stripes, NY Dolls, Pistols, Radiohead, Spoon, Hank Williams, Beatles, 70's funk, Chris Whitley, Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds, Beasties, Sex Mob, Miles, Mingus, Duke, Django, Motorhead, Stones, Hip Hop, James Brown, Soundgarden, Sly & the Family Stone, Robert Johson, almost anything you could find @ 78rpm - the list goes on...
Barfly, Fight Club, American Splendor, Malena, Gilda, Secretary, Ghost Word, Metropolis, Ghost Dog, Rocky, Monty Python, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Any 40's Noir, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, 12 Monkeys, Butch C & the Sundance K, Spiderman 2, Any Hitchcock, Taxi Driver, Napolean Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Girl on the Bridge, Matrix, Donnie Darko, Buffalo '66, Henry & June, I Stand Alone, The Jerk, Girl Interrupted, Say Anything, 16 Candles, Mulholland Drive, Vanilla Sky, The Hours, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Planet of the Apes - original
Homer J. Simpson is my lord & savior. I'm a PBS junkie.
Fante / Kerouac / Nabakov / Rand / Bukowski / Celine / Chandler / Henry Miller / Anais Nin / Hesse / Palahniuk / Sedaris / Kundera / Jim Thompson / Whitman / e.e. cummings / Roddy Doyle / Fitzgerald / Studs Terkell / Jerry Stahl
See music / books plus - Evel Knievel, Keith Richards, Thomas Edison, Moondog - the Viking of 6th Ave, Mohammed Ali, Robert Johnson, Ed (Honeymooners) Norton, the staff of the Maker's Mark Bourbon Distillery & the person who invented that thing that holds the 6 packs together.