Books, music, film. Novel twists on old yarns. Making jewelry. Research, because it's just like hunting, but without the shooting. (At least when done correctly.) My friends, without whom I would have no one to inflict my half-baked ideas and crackpot theories on... You know, stuff. Assemblage and altered objects. As Elise says, I've "gone banana sandwich".
Phillip K. Dick and J.D. Salinger. At a masquerade ball that is being thrown by Atlanteans on a secret island in the Bermuda Triangle .
And kittens.
A circa 'Being There' time travelling Peter Sellers.
Anyone who can make me laugh AND make me think.
You.
Your alter-ego.
Most recently:
Colin Hay, Joshua Radin, Cary Brothers, Rhett Miller, Feist, Rogue Wave, One Ring Zero, Cyril Pahinui, Varttina, Otis Redding, Whiskeytown, Old 97's, and The Shins. Autumn is coming, and I think I needed to dust off the old melancholy and try it on for size again.
Ones I like a lot:
The Usual Suspects
The Court Jester
Dr. Strangelove
Kung Fu Hustle
Shaolin Soccer
The God of Cookery
Boondock Saints
Secretary
Garden State
Serenity
Dead Man
City of Lost Children
Delicatessen
Zero Effect
Wings of Desire
Shaun Of The Dead
Young Frankenstein
any Monty Python
all the Evil Deads
2046 (Wong Kar Wai makes pretty, pretty movies.)
Hot Fuzz
The Royal Tennenbaums
Night Watch
Pan's Labyrinth
Smokin'Aces
Brazil
Anchorman
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
CSI
Heroes
Buffy
Firefly
Mr. Show
Lost
Rome
The Mighty Boosh
Veronica Mars
Crooked Little Vein
Nextwave: I Kick Your Face: soon, soon, soon!
DMZ-Brian Wood
Phonogram-Gillen & McKelvie
Buffy Season 8, duh.
Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse-Ben Templesmith
Fables
The Boys by Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson
The Amazing Joy Buzzards by Smith & Hipp
Hellboy by Mike Mignola
The Seven Soldiers of Victory by Grant Morrison
Desolation Jones by Warren Ellis
Casanova by Matt Fraction & Gabriel Ba
Fell by Warren Ellis
Girls by the Luna Brothers
100 Bullets
The Goon!
The 'Amber' Omnibus-Roger Zelazny
Runaways-BKV
Fear Agent-Rick Remender
D'Airain Adventure-Ashley Wood
Age of Bronze-Eric Shanower
Favorites:
American Gods-Neil Gaiman
Geek Love-Katherine Dunn
The Razor's Edge-W.Somerset Maugham
The Name of the Rose-Umberto Eco
Snow Crash-Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age-Neal Stephenson
Bastard out of Carolina-Dorothy Allison
Humpty Dumpty-An Oval by Damon Knight
The Secrets of Rusty Things by Michael de Meng
Mom