The three-toed sloth horrifies me (the two-toed just makes me a little nervous). This is not rational.
(I still want a Che Sloth shirt, though.)
Old cars, old music, old graphic design, old bikes!, mid-century modern anything, Gaudi, Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Canadians, animation, non-fiction about tragedies, marine life, good dogs and bad cats, my '66 Dodge, Hank's '66 Fairlane (heh)
Butthole Surfers, the White Ghost Shivers, the Sir Finks (still in withdrawal, here), Taraf de Haidouks, Raymond Scott, the Upskirts, Circus Contraption, the Damned, R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders, Robert Johnson, The Ramones, Howlin' Wolf, Skip James, NOFX, Booker T, Django Reinhardt, DEVO, Elmore James, Squirrel Nut Zippers, the Temptations, Blues Explosion, the Deadites, Dick Dale, Curtis Mayfield, the Sonics, Billie Holiday, Bob Wills, Beatallica, Japonize Elephants, the Apeshits, the all-star version of the Spankers, the Robot Devil song, anything with a sax or a clarinet that makes me giddy, any kind of fucked up gypsy music that sounds like you might just go crazy, and more than I can possibly think of now.
Any Buster Keaton, Brokeback Mountain, The Blues Brothers, Sweet & Lowdown, Hard Core Logo, Angel Heart, The Others, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, Fargo, Roman Holiday, Friday, Evil Dead, Spinal Tap, Re-Animator, Caddyshack, Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life, Poltergeist, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Reefer Madness, Lord of the Rings, Alien, City Lights, Das Boot, The Fisher King, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Time Bandits, Young Frankenstein, Space Balls, Galaxy Quest, Wit, The Devil's Backbone, Ghost World, The Royal Tenenbaums, Eternal Sunshine, Shaun of the Dead, Team America: World Police, Fantasia, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Triplets of Belleville, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Spirited Away, Rejected, The Animation Show, Pixar, Don Hertzfeldt, the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, the Coen brothers, Charlie Kaufman
Farscape, Futurama, Metalocalypse, Heroes, Mystery Science Theater, Battlestar Galactica (2003--no capes!), Lost, Long Way Round, South Park, Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Frisky Dingo, the Venture Brothers, Robot Chicken, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio, the Twilight Zone, Insomniac, Blue Planet, New Detectives, Forensic Files, Animal Precinct (but not Animal Cops--Detroit and its zero-tolerance pit bull policy can go fuck itself right in the ear), Good Eats, Unwrapped, CSI, Amazing Race
HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD do I love Good Omens.
Also: Schroedinger's Cat, The Circus Fire, City on Fire, Phantoms in the Brain, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, The Perfect Storm (a very good BOOK, anyway), The Elegant Universe, Hitchhiker's Guide, Sandman, Tijuana Bibles, Krazy Kat, Calvin & Hobbes, Life in Hell, Winsor McCay, Shirley Jackson, Lewis Carroll, JRR Tolkien, T.S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, Neil Gaiman, anything about art or history or architecture or design or space or science or nature or disasters or weird shit in general, and ONE book about cats.