California, jazz, headphones, surf guitar, space organ, good art, painting, bourgeois clichés, literature, film, film noir, octocats, Ericofon Telephones, reel-to-reel, monophonic records, rock and roll, beta tapes, aviation, Chelsea-boots, the naughty bits, and so on...
I'd like to meet:
Julie Christie, Philip Marlowe, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rene Magritte, Brer Bear & Brer Rabbit, Arthur Digby Sellers, Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson, Laurel & Hardy, Ras the Exhorter, Kilgore Trout
Music:
the Beatles, the Zombies, the Kinks, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Donovan, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Harry Nilsson, the Byrds, the Bonzo Dog Band, Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, ELO, Randy Newman, the Hollies, the Monkees, the Who, the Rolling Stones(w/ Brian Jones), The Merry-Go-Round, Margo Guryan, Love, the Association, the Mamas & the Papas, the Lovin' Spoonful, Chad & Jeremy, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, (early) Bee Gees, Peter & Gordon, Motown, The Temptations, Phil Spector produced tunes, Burt Bacharach
Camera Obscura, Oasis, Wilco, the Clientele, Blur, Belle & Sebastian, the Verve, Starflyer 59, Brendan Benson, the Swims, John Davis, Dr. Dog, the Tyde, the Beachwood Sparks, the Apples in Stereo
Ludwig Van Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Gershwin, Haydn, Mozart, Wagner
Movies:
the Graduate, Rushmore, the Big Lebowski, Vertigo, Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, La Dolce Vita, Fellini's 8 1/2, the Maltese Falcon, Play It Again Sam, The Big Sleep, Casino Royale (1967), The Pink Panther (1963), Dr. Zhivago, American Graffiti, Annie Hall, Modern Times, City Lights, The Great Dictator, All About Eve, Sunset Blvd., Kind Hearts & Coronets, Alice In Wonderland, North By Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Bunny Lake is Missing, Jules et Jim, the Squid and the Whale, Lost in Translation, Love & Death, Sleeper, Bananas
Television:
Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Simpsons, Conan O' Brien, Arrested Development, Freaks & Geeks, Flight of the Conchords
Books:
William Faulkner. James Joyce. Kurt Vonnegut. Ernest Hemingway. Raymond Chandler. Edgar Allan Poe. Mark Twain. Lewis Carroll.
Invisible Man, The Sound And The Fury, Dubliners, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Mother Night, Player Piano, The Big Sleep, White Noise, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, As I Lay Dying, Absalom Absalom!, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Cannery Row, The Great Gatsby, The Crying of Lot 49, Fahrenheit 451, Alice In Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass, All the Pretty Horses, Daisy Miller, the Zoo Story, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1984, Candide, The Graduate, The Catcher In The Rye, KJV.
I also dig poetry by T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell and some of that confessional stuff.
Heroes:
and Villains.........John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Richard Starkey, Brian Wilson, Jeebus, Homer Simpson, Bill Watterson, Robert Zimmerman, Rod Argent, Ray Davies, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Sellers, George Sanders, Sigmund Freud, Monty Python, the Dude, Marlowe
