Punk music and music in general, writing, reading, playing guitar, riding cruiser bikes on the beach, bowling. Late night conversations. Hanging out on the steps of our apt building watching the crazy locals.
Writers, artists, smarty-pants, people who are tons of fun, punks, real people.
Too much to list. Here's a sample: X, 101'ers, Registrators, Gears, Bodies, Descendents, Real Kids, Johnny Cash, Stitches, Filth, Born Against, Suicidal Tendencies, Cock Sparrer, Raw Power, Cheap Trick, Hatepinks, Pagans, Humpers, Loretta Lynn, Devil Dogs, YDI, Swingin Utters, Social D, Wanda Jackson, Regulations, Sludgeworth, Roky Erickson, Screeching Weasel, Teengenerate, The Beat (Paul Collins), The Clash, The Crowd, Broken Bottles, Bad Brains, Exploding Hearts, Pegboy, Signal Lost, Detroit Cobras, Hot Snakes.
Into the Wild, Lords of Dogtown, Barfly, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Sin City, Chasing Amy, Office Space, Basquiat, Filth and the Fury, Little Miss Sunshine, Cinderella Man, Zoolander, True Romance, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, High Fidelity, Garden State, Seven, Crash, Shawshank Redemption, The Shape of Things, Sid and Nancy, My Own Private Idaho, Fletch, Carrie, Better Off Dead, Amelie, Fahrenheit 911, Decline of the Western Civilization, Barbarella, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Big Lebowski, Birdy, Gummo, A Christmas Story.
Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, Adult Swim, Dexter, Triumph the insult dog, Forensic Files, Law and Order, skateboarding videos, Animal Planet/Jeff Corwin/Discovery channel, The old man from Everyone Loves Raymond, Jackass, Frosty the Snowman, Heat Miser.
Any Cormac McCarthy, Raymond Carver, Bukowski, Fante. Haslam's Valley, Babe in Paradise, Emperor of the Air, Wild Sheep Chase, Winesburg Ohio, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Jesus' Son, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Pillowman, Ham on Rye, The Basketball Diaries, McSweeney's comp, Bastard Out of Carolina, The Lovely Bones, Yellow, Dubliners, Catcher in the Rye, The Scarlet Letter, Ask the Dust, Bad Behavior.
The bear from Harvey Birdman.
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