the blues, murder ballads, music in general, perfume, cocooning in bed, bones, reading, glitter, clockwork, traveling, concerts, cherry Chupa Chups, octopi, giant and colossal squids, cherry print, hotel rooms, bad horror movies, comedy, American history, oversized sunglasses and hiding from the world, forensic science, radio, learning about art, learning other languages, learning things in general, waffles, the south, your mom, payphones, high fives, sweet tea, archetypes, juke joints, neanderthals, life as art, giving massages but for free not as a job
THE DOODLEBOPS
Howlin' Wolf, The Strokes, John Coltrane, John Cage, Skip James, The Who, Muddy Waters, Bob Weir, Buddy Guy, BB King, The Stones, Otis Redding, Hank Williams, Ryan Adams, Madonna, The Network Stars, Blind Willie McTell, Thelonious Monk, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Geto Boys, Vampire Weekend, Porter Batiste Stoltz, Death Cab for Cutie, Dolly Parton, Caetano Veloso, Ali Farka Toure, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Sun Ra, the Sex Pistols, Astor Piazzolla, Ratdog, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Otis Rush, Public Enemy, Les Claypool, NWA, Kylie Minogue, Charlie Hunter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Alphabet Soup, Blind Willie Johnson, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tegan and Sara, AC Newman, Aberfeldy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Say Anything, Wu-Tang Clan, Wreckless Eric, Too Much Joy, U2, Uffie, Afghan Whigs, Air, Aimee Allen, Al Green, Bessie Jackson, Ben Lee, Annie Lennox, Bella, America, Amon Tobin, Arctic Monkeys, Allman Brothers, Elefant, Flaming Lips, Gym Class Heroes, Dr Hook, The Bangles, Gang of Four, Stevie Wonder, 4Hero, X, The White Stripes, Victoria Williams, Thievery Corporation, The Stranglers, Steve Earle, Betty Davis, Solomon Burke, Soulive, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Runaways, Sam Cooke, Rhett Miller, The Raveonettes, Pulp, New York Dolls, Peaches, Ambulance LTD, Detroit Cobras, Dropkick Murphys, Elysian Fields, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Dusty Springfield, Sarah McLachlan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, New Order, Christina Aguilera, Dean Martin, The Hollies, Magnetic Fields, Lionel Richie, Faron Young, Phantom Planet, Simon and Garfunkel, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, Imperial Teen, Chris Isaak, Princess Superstar, Joan Jett, Jayhawks, Damian Rice, Jill Sobule, Murder City Devils, Deadutantes, The Commodores, Lyrics Born, Tori Amos, McCoy Tyner, Goldfrapp, The Mountain Goats, Motley Crue, MIA, Misfits, Missy Elliott, Cold War Kids, Hem, Blondie, The Funky Meters --more indie and blues and jazz and everything...it goes on and on and on...
Five Easy Pieces, Lolita '62, The Limey, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, When the Levees Broke, American Beauty, Bamboozled, Fargo, Mulholland Drive, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, Kill Bill, The Devil's Rejects, Reservoir Dogs, No Country for Old Men, Casablanca, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rope, Seven Samurai, Survive Style 5+, Asian ultraviolence (especially Miike, that magnificent bastard), movies of the giallo persuasion, most movies that were on USA Up All Night
MST3K, The Twilight Zone (I'll watch any incarnation but no one beats Serling), Veronica Mars, Arrested Development, the Whedonverse, The Office, Andy Griffith Show, City Confidential, The Wire, Sopranos, Big Love, American Gothic, anything with forensic science and yes, Gossip Girl
Nabokov, Bulgakov, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Gogol, Pushkin, Philip Pullman, Francesca Lia Block, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Thomas Jefferson, etc.
And way more YA than I care to admit.
Charucki
Paul Reubens
Tallulah Bankhead
Thomas Jefferson