Music:
Anything...as long as it's good. Favorites (in no particular order):
Rock: Gn'R, Weezer, Beach Boys, The Police, Muse, Queen, Jimmy Eat World, Faith No More, Stone Temple Pilots, Van Halen.
Metal: Megadeth, The Haunted, Sevendust, Slayer, Strapping Young Lad, Lamb of God, Meshuggah, System Of A Down, Metallica.
Soul/R&B: James Brown, Otis Redding, Earth Wind And Fire, Marvin Gaye, Parliament, Tower Of Power, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross.
Classical: Wagner, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein, Ives, Debussy, Chopin, Perotin, Rachmaninoff.
Jazz: Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Charlie Hunter, John Zorn, Michael Brecker, Jimmy Smith.
Blues: Louis Jordan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Muddy Waters, Albert King, John Lee Hooker.
Electronica: Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, Aphex Twin, Basement Jaxx, Plug.
Rap: Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, Dr. Dre, Biggie, Necro, Vanilla Ice, Common.
That's just the surface.
Right now, it's all about:
The Steve Miller Band. Don't know...just really digging them right now.
Movies:
The Collection
Actors: Vincent Price, Bruce Campbell, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Peter Lorre, John Cleese, Gene Wilder, Jack Nicholson.
Actresses: Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Ambrose, Harriet Andersson, Christina Ricci, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Steele, Judy Garland, Winona Ryder.
Directors: Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, David Cronenberg, Masaki Kobayashi, Mel Brooks, Ed Wood, Tim Burton.
Animators: Tex Avery, Edward Gorey, Don Hertzfeldt, Bob Clampett, Bill Plympton, John Kricfalusi, Mark Ryden, Terry Gilliam.
Movies: Evil Dead Trilogy, all Monty Python movies, The Elephant Man, Ugetsu, Carnival of Souls, Eraserhead, Bambi, Seven Samurai, Dead Alive, The Seventh Seal, Salo, Fear Of A Black Hat, Kwaidan, Diabolique, Edward Scissorhands, Rebecca, M, This Is Spinal Tap, The Shining, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Let's Get Lost, Spaceballs, Cries and Whispers, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Eyes Without A Face, so many others...
I also have a nasty Criterion Collection addiction. I think I have a problem.
Last movie I've seen: The Great Dictator by Charles Chaplin. True genius.
Television:
On one hand: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, Perfect Hair Forever, Invader Zim, Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, Venture Bros., Family Guy, Futurama, South Park, Ren and Stimpy, Looney Tunes, Ed, Edd & Eddy, Cowboy Bebop, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show.
On the other hand: IFC, Sundance Channel, TCM, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Ovation, A&E.
Books:
Another ongoing journey. Poe, Dostoyevsky, Whitman, Steinbeck, Cummings, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Hemingway, Goethe, Paine, Seuss, Joyce, Rimbaud. Shakespeare is starting to grow on me.
Current read: Really remiss in this department right now. Busy writing again for a change. It's awesome.
Heroes:
My mother and my grandmother. Everyone else will always fall short.