castles, Bacchic cults, polyhedra, Klein Blue, Los Angeles Literature and Lowbrow, cities, people who live in cities and know why, people who don't and know why, euphemisms, praying mantises, comix, the timeless slogan "punx not dead", words where it's possible to replace plural spelling with the letter "x", as in "comix" and "punx", photography, Whirling Dervishes, bottles, theater, Franz Liszt, clouds, Coleridge, dangling participles, art history, things that can float through the air, Blargh Inc, good journalism, modes ponens, Daniel Clowes, Egypt, trees, writing on walls, manifest destiny, Dia de los Muertos, chroma, value, hue.
Radiohead, Op Ivy, Against Me!, the Specials, the Pixies, Sublime, Jimmy Cliff, Devendra Banhart, Mount Eerie/ Microphones, the Books, The Fiery Furnaces, the Small Faces, Chris Murray, Descendents, Bad Religion, Jason Webley, the Beatles, Johnny Cash, Modest Mouse, Skatalites, Beck, Eels, Hepcat, the Slackers, Joanna Newsom, Cab Calloway, R. Crumb, Bubble Puppy, Stray Cats, Sonic Youth, Mirah, Decemberists, Thanksgiving, Elliott Smith,the Velvet Underground, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Kinks, the Clash, Choking Victim, Leftover Crack, Stereolab, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Stereototal, Violent Femmes, Buzzcocks, Nick Drake, Of Montreal, Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, David Bowie, MC5, the Who, Bjork, Louis Armstrong, Fugazi, New Pornographers, Shostakovich, Franz Liszt, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Villalobos, the Dresden Dolls, Desmond Dekker, Joan of Arc, Sugarcubes, the Unicorns, the Moldy Peaches, the White Stripes, the Flaming Lips, the Pretty Things, the Mountain Goats.
Harold & Maude, A Clockwork Orange, all Monty Python, most Woody Allen, Rocky Horror, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Labyrinth, Waking Life, Bad Education, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Rejected, Clerks, The Triplets of Belleville, Yellow Submarine, Tim Burton before Planet of the Apes, Mallrats, the Little Mermaid, Mulan, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Muppets do Manhattan
ADULT SWIM.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Ask the Dust by John Fante, Lolita by Nabokov, anything Charles Bukowski, On the Road by Kerouac, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, Naked Lunch by Burroughs, Amphigorey by Edward Gorey, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Ghost World and Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Shel Silverstien and Dr.Seuss in general, Plato's Symposium, Livy's the Early History of Rome, the Plague by Camus, the Wiggles' "A Day at the Zoo" featuring the Wiggles.
John Fante, the Clayton Brothers, Shel Silverstein, Daniel Clowes