Beating up Nazis, animation, songwriting, post-60s American political mess, deflating pompous busybodies and the forces of the social uplift, greasing all squeaky wheels, haughtily ignoring speedbumps, dorky boardgames
GBV, Gene Clark/Byrds, Sinatra, Jolie Holland, John Cale, Mike Nesmith, Nick Drake, Mississppi John Hurt, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Peg Leg Howell, George Harrison, Dwight Yoakam, Journey, Gordon Lightfoot
Petey Wheatstraw, Stardust Memories, Goodfellas, Lawrence of Arabia, Cromwell, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Godfather , Annie Hall, A Man for All Seasons, Crimes and Misdemeanors, All the Real Girls, Breaker Morant, Unforgiven, Cockfighter
Roger Ramjet!, I Claudius, 24, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, the new Galactica, Andrew Davies BBC epics, anything the History Channel can throw at me, anything Ken Burns musters up, snootily avoid TV otherwise
Mencken, Trilling, Montaigne, Stan Lee/Jack Kirby, Buber, Kierkegaard, IB Singer, BHL Hart, Oakeshott, Jim Thompson, Russell Kirk, Tom Sowell, William Barrett, EC horror comics, Sentimental Education, Thornton Wilder, V.D. Hanson
Al Swearengen (drinking), Mickey Spillane (fighting), Sir Walter Raleigh (smoking),