Comics, Novels, Antidepressant medication, Boys who look like girls, Star Wars figures, New York in the 1960's, Paris in the 19th century, Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries, Learning French to read Rimbaud, Dying in something other than desperate ignominy
In no order, R. Crumb, Woody Allen, Billy Corgan, Alan Moore, George Lucas, Craig McCracken, Kurt Vonnegut, Bret Easton Ellis, Tim Burton, Julie Andrews, George Romero, Ian McKellen, Bill Watterson, David Chase, Conor Oberst, Hayden Christensen, Thomas Harris, Eddie Izzard, Bryan Lee O'Malley.I haven't yet met Truman Capote, Bob Fosse, Stanley Kubrick, Roald Dahl, Alfred Kinsey, Charles Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Andy Wahol, or Caravaggio, for want of a shovel.
Smashing Pumpkins, Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Animal Collective, Velvet Underground, Andrew Bird, White Stripes.. Skip James, East River String Band, Django Reinhardt, Edith Piaf, Apples in Stereo, Radiohead, Stolen Babies, Kander and Ebb, Billie Holiday, Dresden Dolls, Danny Elfman, Death Cab for Cutie, Rufus Wainwright, Goldfrapp, Scissor Sisters, Bjork. Umm.. Set the Ray to Jerry! The soundtrack to any Tarantino film.
Check out the list in my blog.
Don't watch any TV. I do buy Sopranos as it comes on DVD, also X-Files, and Powerpuff Girls.
I'm going to assume "books" includes comics and list favorite illustrators, some of whom would include: R. Crumb, Marjane Satrapi, Becky Cloonan, Um.. Frazer Irving, Kristian, Pete Woods, of course Bill Watterson, Winsor McCay, obvious ones like Frank Miller, ones who didn't really draw "comics", like Thomas Nast and John Tenniel. Keith Haring. I'm really interested in a black-and-white pen-and-ink look at the moment, as that list probably shows. As far as "books" like "novels", I like too many to list here... I also really like "inspirational" books, such as A Child Called It, which inspired me to start feeding children bleach.
Hmmm.. Heroes.. Bob Dylan. Michael Moore. Batman. And Squee.