World's Fairs, comics, hugging baby animals, turn of the century coney island, corsetry and costuming, playing Pinbot, riding my bike, the technological sublime, the future-past, and their resulting wonderment and delight, the pine barrens and southern New Jersey mythology.
Nikola Tesla, people throwing out just the right things i want (shoe boxes full of prayer cards, jars of buttons, a 301A Singer sewing machine with as many different feet as possible), Ruth Polsky.
Brian Eno, Reverend Glasseye, Adam and the Ants, Rasputina, the Creatures, Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Elvis Costello, Joy Division, X-Ray Spex, Sticks and Stones, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, the Clash, the Gun Club, Jason Webley and some of these characters:
A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Zoolander, the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Warriors, Times Square
Futurama, Firefly, Dead Like Me, Twin Peaks
Cannery Row by John Stienbeck, Roald Dahl anything, non-fiction and books with lots of pictures.
the Algonquin Round Table, Dick Zigun, PT Barnum, Zombie Amelia Earhart.