Writing, doodling, musicking, and failing at all three.
Ringo Starr"The misconception is that I'm making fun of people, when it's clearly my character who's the ignoramous. You can call Archie Bunker a racist, but you wouldn't call All in the Family racist. Not that I'm comparing my show to All in the Family - my show's much better. Did you see the episode where I shit my pants? Very cerebral. My point is, if you don't look at the show as a whole, you may get offended. But that's true for everything. In so many ways - politically, socially - we sell ourselves short by not looking at the big picture. If you look too closely at the TV, all you see are dots."
-Sarah Silverman, when asked "Are you trying to offend people?", Maxim 114 June 2007."My grandma's super ability is to see cats that aren't there. My parents say she's just senile, but I know it's just that she's on a higher plane of consciousness."
-Elyse, on her grandma
The Beatles, Arcade Fire, Brand New, Cake, The Decemberists, The Elected, Franz Ferdinand, Gregory and the Hawk, The Lovely Feathers, The Lovely Sparrows, Mates of State, Metroid Metal, Mikey Die, Modest Mouse, Motion City Soundtrack, My Chemical Romance, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Polaris, Postal Service, Rooney, Straylight Run, Teaneck, The Velvet Underground, Viva Voce, XOC, Craig Wahl
Adaptation, American Psycho, Back to the Future, Batman, Batman Returns, Beauty and the Beast, Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Boogie Nights, Bottle Rocket, Bridge on the River Kwai, But I’m a Cheerleader, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Cube, Dark Crystal, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Fantasia, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ghost World, Ginger Snaps, Grandma's Boy, Grindhouse, A Hard Days’ Night, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold and Maude, I [Heart] Huckabee’s, Indiana Jones, Jackie Brown, James Bond, Kill Bill, Lawrence of Arabia, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Little Mermaid, Little Miss Sunshine, The Matrix, May, Men in Black, Mullholland Drive, The Mummy, Napoleon Dynamite, The Neverending Story, The Nightmare Before Christmas, North by Northwest, Nothing, One Hour Photo, Orange County, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pi, Planet of the Apes, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Rules of Attraction, Rushmore, The Shape of Things, Shaun of the Dead, SLC Punk!, Sleepy Hollow, Smokin’ Aces, Star Wars, Stranger Than Fiction, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze, Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, Tommy, Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, V for Vendetta, Wallace and Gromit, Wonderland, Yellow Submarine
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Invader Zim, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Samurai Jack, Speed Racer, Spongebob Squarepants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Urusei Yatsura, The X-Files
The Cheese Monkeys, Choke, Diary, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Fight Club, Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, Survivor