comedy, writing, music, live music, making music, history, enjoying art, making art, comics, comic books, vintage comic art, wine, photography, design, classic video games, copyright and control in a democracy of ideas, sociology, driving on back roads, lots of stuff...
Freaks, geeks, creeps, dweebs; jerks, jack-offs, jicks, and jocks;
jockos, homos, bobos, bozos;
scaries, hairies, harpies, marys, spaz's, iz's, whizzes, and weirdos;
winos, flo-jo's, shlomos, and shmoes;
goodies, woodys, cooties, floozies, cuties, beauties, muties, trudies,
shooters, looters, intruders, and dudes;
the clueless, the guileless, the smileless, the dumb,
monsters, mothers, brothers, and mumps;
gimps, wimps, pimps, blimps, shemps, gents, tents, and tots;
slobs, blobs, mobs, and mods, goats, gits, grits, and gods.
Stan the Man, Van the Man, Peter Pan and Marzipan.
Wizrds, lizards, gizzards, geezers, wheezers, skeeters,
beaters, meeters, leapers, leppers,
wreckers, wrackers,
heaters, hackers, bleeders, and snackers.
Hicks, chicks, ticks, pricks, and prats... [to be continued]
Oh boy! Beatles, Beach Boys, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Beck Hansen, Kinks, Sleater Kinney, The Who, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Wilco, Flaming Lips, Interpol, Blues Explosion, Stereolab, Arcade Fire, Spoon, White Stripes, The Shins, Apples in Stereo, Yes, Tool, Genesis, Grateful Dead, Duran Duran, Dandy Warhols, Guided By Voices, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dead Meadow, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bjork, Lard Dog, Blonde Redhead, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, James Hunter, James Brown, Rage, Sloan, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Wendy Carlos, REM, Talking Heads!, The Clash, Jimi Hendrix, Kraftwerk, INXS, Jimmy Smith, The Mamas & the Papas, The Police!, U2, much much more...
Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, and pretty much all their movies. I like silent film, primarily Keaton, Lloyd and Chaplain. I like too many other movies, so I'll list some random all-time favorites: Grosse Point Blank, The Time Machine (George Pal), Goldfinger, Back To The Future, Monty Python...Holy Grail, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter 3 (Azkaban), Hard Day's Night, Help!, Cemetery Man.
Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Home Movies, News Radio, Monty Python, FUTURAMA!, Kids In The Hall, Daily Show, Arrested Development, anything with archaeologists, historians, or Samantha Brown, THE VENTURE BROTHERS!, No Reservations, MST3K (altho it's not on TV).
(& Authors) Kurt Vonnegut, JRR Tolkein, Neil Gaiman, City at the Center of the World (history of Dutch New York), all sorts of history and historical fiction.Comics are books, too! Sandman, Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Top 10, and Promethea), Ed Brubaker's Sleeper, Stracynski's Spiderman, Waid's Legion, Transmetropolitan, Ex Machina (BKV!), Walking Dead, lots of stuff...
GENERAL: Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Terry Gilliam, John Lennon, Stan Lee, Ben Franklin, The Beatles...
MUSICAL: Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, The Beatles, FZ, The Kinks, The Velvets, Brian Wilson
COMEDIC: Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, Ed, The Goons, MST3K, Steve Martin, everyone at UCBT, Buster Keaton, Bob Newhart, Mitch Hedberg, Bill Hicks, Firesign Theatre...
RADIO HEROES: Edwin Armstrong, Tony Schwartz, Jean Shepheard, Glen Jones, Joe Frank, Terre T, Ira Glass, Amy Goodman, FST, The Goons, Kate Sullivan, Dick Brooks...
CLASSICAL HEROES: Ben Franklin, Jonathan Swift...
FICTIONAL HEROES: Spiderman (Peter Parker), Compe Anansi, Gandalf...