Reading and Creating Comic Books, Watching and Analyzing Films/ Movies/ Animations, Listenning to Music (Independant Rock & Roll/ Popular Music, Late 1970s - Early 1980s Punk Rock, New Wave, No Wave, Avante Garde, Jazz, and Much More) Humor of Every Stripe (save for racist and sexist), Video Games (mainly RPG and Adventure), Studying History, Studying Languages, Keeping Abreast of the Popular Sciences (Especially Paleontology), Playing My Guitar, Reading the Odd Novel, Commiting Acts of Coitus (and realated periphria), Free-Style Walking, Riding My Bicycle Down the Thoroughfare, Staying Awake Until Odd Hours of the Morning, Being Fatuous and Stray, Being Ethical and Uprite, Being Entirely Innapropriate, Travelling to remote Locales.
Musicians, artists, insomniacs, serious thinkers, blathering ninnies, and other like-minded folks. People without full beards or faux-hawks. People with mononocular vision. Filthy humans who clean themselves regularly. The desperate and the deranged. People for whom intoxicants are nothing in light of the endless entertainment their own minds can provide.
the Arcade Fire, Louis Armstrong, Atom and His Package, Babes in Toyland, Bauhaus, the Beastie Boys, the Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Bettie Serveert, Billy Goat, Black Sabbath, Blondie, Blur, David Bowie, Brad, Breakestra, The Breeders, James Brown, Built to Spill, Burning Airlines, R.L. Burnside, Calexico, the Carnabeats, Cat Power, Cibo Motto, Clutch, Crucifucks, the Dead Kennedys, the Dead Milkmen, Death Cab for Cutie, Devo, Dink, Dose One, Dressy Bessie, Electric Six, Jeremy Enigk, Ensemble Nipponia, Faith No More, the Flaming Lips, Fugazi, the Goats, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Benny Goodman, Grassy Knoll, the Halo Benders, Helium, Helmet, Hum, the Jaguars, Jaw Box, Yoko Kanno, Knapsack, James Kochalka Superstar, Kyuss, Land of the Loops, Le Tigre, Latyrx, Looper, Low, Luminous, Lush, Lyrics Born, Nellie McKay, Melt Banana, Metric, Takako Minekawa, Mirah, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Momus, Mother Tongue, Mr. Bungle, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Joanna Newsom, Harry Nilsson, NoMeansNo, Orange 9mm, Beth Orton, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Pond, PJ Harvey, Pop Will Eat Itself, Primus, Public Enemy, Public Image Limited, Queens of the Stone Age, Quicksand, Radiohead, Reverend Horton Heat, Rezillos, Rilo Kiley, Shiina Ringo, Rival Schools, Ruins, Sausage, the Sex Pistols, the Shape Shifters, Mort Shuman, Sleater-Kinney, The Slits, Smashing Pumpkins, Spent, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Syrup USA, Talking Heads, Mary Timony, Tool, Tortoise, T-Rex, Laura Veirs, the Ventures, Versus, Tom Waits, the Weakerthans, Ween, the White Stripes, White Zombie, Shannon Wright, X-Ray Specs, the Youngers, Frank Zappa
Titles:
Adaptation, Akira, Alien, Aliens, Amélie, Angel Heart, Around the Bend, the Bad Sleep Well, Bad Taste, Barton Fink, Batman Begins, Buena Vista Social Club, the Big Labowski, Blood: the Last Vampire, Brick, Bubble Boy, Bukaroo Banzai, Bullit, Citizen Ruth, City of Lost Children, Cockfighter, Collateral, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Cop Land, Cradle Will Rock, the Dark Crystal, Dawn of the Dead (1978 & 2004), Day of the Dead, Dead Man, Delicatessen, Donnie Darko, Down by Law, Drunken Angel, Election, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evolution, F for Fake, A Fistful of Dollars, the Fog of War, For a Few Dollars More, Gangs of New York, Gloria, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Goodfellas, Heat, Heavenly Creatures, the Hidden Fortress, Ghost Busters, High and Low, Hulk, the Insider, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Jin-Roh, King of New York, Kingdom of Heaven, Labrynth, Land of the Dead, the Lost World: Jurassic Park, Mad Max I, II, & III, Man on Fire, the Manchurian Candidate (2004), Manhunter, the Meaning of Life, Minority Report, the Mission, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Munich, Mystery Train, Night of the Living Dead, Old School, Once Upon a Time in the West, One Crazy Summer, Predator I & II, Princess Mononoke, the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Raising Arizona, Rashomon, the Razor's Edge, Reds, Repo Man, Roadside Prophets, Sanjuro, Return of the Living Dead, Ride with the Devil, Road Trip, Say Anything..., Search and Destroy, Serenity, the Seven Samurai, Shock Corridor, the Spanish Prisoner, Spartan, Spirited Away, State and Main, Steam Boy, Stop Making Sense, Straw Dogs, Syriana, Talk Radio, the Thin Red Line, the Third Man, Touch of Evil, Tree's Lounge, Trixie, Wag the Dog, War of the Worlds (2005), Way of the Gun, Wings of Desire, X-Men I-II, Yojimbo
Writers & Directors:
Marc Caro, John Cassavetes, the Cohen Brothers, Johnathan Demme, Sam Fuller, Peter Jackson, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jim Jarmusch, Charlie Kaufman, Akira Kurosawa, Ang Lee, Sergio Leone, David Mamet, Michael Mann, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo, Sam Alexander Payne, Peckinpah, Stephen Spielberg, Orson Welles, Wim Wenders
Auqa-Teen Hunger Force, Battlestar Galactica, Deadwood, Family Guy, Heroes, Lost, My Name is Earl, Oban Star-Racers, Squidbillies, The 4400, The Venture Bros.
Titles:
A People's History of the United States, Black Hole, Breakfast of Champions, Cloud of Sparrows, The Hagakure, Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Master and Margarita, Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, Rotten, Sluaghterhouse 5, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Watchmen
Authors:
Mikhail Bulgakov, Joseph Campbell, Robert E. Howard, Norman Mailer, Takashi Matsuoka, Alan Moore, Oscar Ratti, Laura Joh Rowland, Niel Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, Adele Westbrook
Joseph Campbell, Noam Chomsky, Wayne Coyne, Peter Falk, Bill Hicks, Tony Iommi, Jack Kirby, John Lydon, Ian McKaye, Guy Picciotto, Mike Ruppert, Polly Styrene, Mary Timony