Movies, travel, beer, tattoos, Red Sox, boozin', cars, Boston, riding me bicycle, photography, the beach, comics, Ms. Pacman, gin and tonic, poker, gambling, craps, fartin' around in my apartment in my boxers and drinking PBR. I also like doing the NYT crossword puzzle, but only on Monday and Tuesday. I'm too dim for Wednesday.
Bettie Page, Vargas models in general, Roger Corman, Larry Flynt, Lloyd Kaufman, Mr. Jim Beam, Mr. Pabst, Robert Mitchum, J.J. Gittes, Ann Marie Slaughter, Elvis, Bruce Lee, The Continental Op, Batman, that dude from Repo Man who was in all those A&W Root Beer commercials back in the 80's. And Audrey Tautou, what a gal.
And this guy:
Iron Maiden, The Clash, Megadeth, Sick of it All, Agnostic Front, Warzone, The Descendents, G.G., Slayer, Rolling Stones, bluegrass, rockabilly, western swing, Johnny Cash, Django Reinhardt, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Dino, Stray Cats, Carl Perkins, The Ramones, Hank Williams, Hank III, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Black fuckin' Sabbath, Miles Davis, Coltrane, The Misfits, Willie Nelson, T Monk, The Buzzcocks, The Toy Dolls (remember them?), Toots and the Maytals, Robert Marley and the Wailers, Desmond Dekker, Prince Buster, Bad Brains, The Jam, Tom Waits, Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Shostakovitch, Fear, Otis Redding, The Roots, Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' to Fuck Wit, Matisyahu, Tribe Called Quest, De la Soul, Jehru the Damaja, Elviss, El Vez, The Damned, Motorhead, Billy Joel (and proud godammit), Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Al Green...
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, anything with John Cusack or Steve McQueen, Alphaville, Farenheit 451, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Wings of Desire (which doesn't necessarily mean I pee sitting down),The Cincinatti Kid, The Hustler, Mean Streets, The Searchers, Noir pictures, Rififfi, Ghost World, de Palma, John Carpenter, Polanski, Kubrick, Sodenburg, Kieslowski, Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels is the best fucking movie ever period), Wilder, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Fucking Pekinpah, Lang, Peter Jackson, Leone, Melville, Wes Anderson, Toshiro Mifune samurai flicks, and all sorts of porn
All in the Family, Simpsons, UCB (Realease more seasons on DVD, bastards!), Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasism, Family Guy, Daily Show, Frontline, The Saint, The Prisoner, The Young Ones, Dave Chapelle, Monty Python, Avengers, Sponge Bob, News Hour w/ Jim Leher, poker shows, Turner Classic Movies.
Greene, le Carre, Hammet, Joyce, Chandler, Jim Thompson, Phillip K Dick, Dostoyevski, Kafka, Vonnegut, e.e. cummings, Roland Barthes (but only when I'm drunk), Bukowski (same), Eco (fiction), Camus can do but Sartre is smartah, Chomsky, Hemingway , Brecht, Zinn, "Life of Pi" was good, comic books, hard-boiled crime novels, NYT, The Economist, Hustler, Financial Times, Club, Foreign Affairs. I also sometimes read Card Player Magazine, to whatever good it does me. I've also been reading a copy of Death on the Installment Plan. Really upbeat.
Cobra Commander, Megatron, Gargamel, Skeletor, Sour Grapes. Voltron.