rock and roll, CANDY, photobooths, pirates, pulp art, robots, ninjas, dinosaurs, sledgehammers, legwarmers, garters, cowboys, sideburns, pompadours, pompadourks, skulls, tattoos, belt buckles, ice cream, antique stores, zines, poetry slams, wheatpasting, cake decorating, bikes, vinyl, liner notes, sideshows, letterpress, my underwood typewriter, family resemblances, popsicles, the 1931 world's fair, cartes de visite with good moustaches on them, kawaii, amigurumi, sewing ANYTHING, rube goldberg devices, pretend food, coffee.
vandals, hooligans, delinquents, perpetrators of shenanigans in the name of art and/or rock & roll... and people who have memorized the california job case layot. gypsies. people with fabulous moustaches.
TH' LEGENDARY SHACK*SHAKERS, GOGOL BORDELLO, ANDREW W.K., the love drunks, the hillbilly casino, joshua black wilkins, the pine hill haints, the asylum street spankers, devotchka, the features, scott h. biram, cory branan, andrew bird, detroit cobras, tiger army, elvis, slim harpo, the darkness, the bravery, the faint, clem snide, slim cessna's auto club, the reverend horton heat, angry johnny and the killbillies, interpol, arcade fire, the immortal lee county killers, horrorpops, southern culture on the skids, br5-49, charlie rich, wanda jackson, the slackers, the toasters, billie holiday, johnny cash, the yeah yeah yeahs, the raveonettes, the betty fords, the gories, the cramps, carl perkins, deke dickerson, big bad voodoo daddy, mates of state, band of horses, balkan beat box, bloc party, leslie and the ly's, jenny lewis, of montreal, dresden dolls, the shins
amelie, rumblefish, rock and roll high school, leningrad cowboys go america, the big lebowski, crybaby, being john malkovich, touch of evil, jesus christ vampire hunter, lost in translation, ghost world, art school confidential, the saddest music in the world, the triplets of belleville, the royal tenenbaums, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, faster pussycat kill kill, tokyo drifter, mystery train, stranger than fiction, the prestige
the office, LOST, things i can watch on DVD now because i didn't have a TV for the longest time... firefly, arrested development, the sopranos, venture bros.
everything is illuminated. extremely loud and incredibly close. ballad of the whiskey robber. the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay. julie & julia. also, the words of: jack kerouac, pagan kennedy, joyce johnson, martin amis, julian barnes, lawrence ferlinghetti, william s. burroughs, allen ginsberg, edwin torres, maggie estep, diane di prima, kurt zapata, john guare, david ives, jose saramago, chet flippo, dave hickey, daniel nester, victor bockris, mezz mezzrow, ruth reichl, and nikolai gogol.
andrew wk. vaclav havel. joan jett. chester carlson. johann gutenberg. agnes heisler barton.