Great cartoonists, animation, the Beach Boys, Golden Age Midget Western Cinema (especially musicals), the Georgia Bulldogs, the Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, music older than 1980, classic crime fiction, passive aggression, booze, broads, dough, not surfing, running with scissors, extreme telemarketing, ice sculpting, childlessness, not shaving, reading in dim light, letting the answering machine get it, interpretive dance, inertia, procrastination, denial, self-deception, feigning illness, cursing the darkness, synchronized swimming, cannibalism, not having a cell phone, booing the Mets, scritching dogs behind the ears (where they love it), romantic dinners with my imaginary friends.
Constance Bennett.
Pet Sounds
"A Christmas Story", "Alice in Wonderland" (1951),"All About Eve", "The Apartment", "Breakfast At Tiffany's", "Casablanca", "The Creature From The Black Lagoon", "The Day The Earth Stood Still", "Dr. Strangelove", "A Face In The Crowd", "Fargo", "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!", "Fort Apache", "The Freshman" (1925), "The General", "The Girl Can't Help It", "Goldfinger", "Gone With The Wind", "The Graduate", "A Hard Day's Night", "Hot Rods To Hell" "The Hudsucker Proxy", "International House", "The Kid" (1921), "King Creole" (featuring American cinema's only bloody fistfight between Elvis and Walter Matthau), "King Kong" (1933), "Lady And The Tramp", "The Major And The Minor", "Miracle On 34th Street", "The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek", "Network", "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", "The Palm Beach Story", "Peter Pan" (1953), "The Party", "Philadelphia Story", "Pinocchio", "Rio Bravo", "Song Of The South", "Sons Of The Desert", "Sparrows", "Sullivan's Travels", "Sunset Boulevard", "Tales Of Manhattan", "The Wizard Of Oz", "The Wolf Man", "Yellow Submarine"
"The Andy Griffith Show", "Car 54, Where Are You?", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "Everybody Loves Raymond", "The Flintstones", "The Honeymooners", "Leave It To Beaver", The Library Channel, Classic test patterns, "Sgt. Bilko" (by whatever title), "Top Cat"
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Blink, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Catcher In The Rye, Chuck Amuck, A Confederacy Of Dunces, Dracula, Eight Men Out, In Cold Blood, In The Best Families, Gone With The Wind, Huckleberry Finn, Little Big Man, Midgets On The Frontier, My Father's Dragon, My Well-Balanced Life On A Wooden Leg, Red Harvest, Some Buried Caesar, The Code Of The Woosters, The Day The Laughter Stopped, The Grass Harp, The Killer Inside Me, The Lord Of The Rings, The Pickwick Papers, The Real Cool Killers, The Tipping Point, The Thin Man
Brian Wilson, Walt Kelly, Al Capp, Billy Wilder, Hank Aaron, Duane Allman, Roscoe Arbuckle, Tex Avery, Burt Bacharach, Ed Benedict, Mary Blair, Greg Boyington, Chuck Britz, Daws Butler, Milt Caniff, Truman Capote, Charlie Chaplin, Clarence Darrow, Walt Disney, Fearless Fosdick, Malcolm Gladwell, Dashiell Hammett, George Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, George Herriman, Chester Himes, Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, Hank Ketcham, Ward Kimball, Don Knotts, Robert E. Lee, John Lennon, Harold Lloyd, Henry Mancini, Ed Mathews, Paul McCartney, Howard Morris, Willard Mullin, Maurice Noble, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford, Biff Pocoroba, Joe Schlabotnik, Ringo Starr, Rex Stout, E.C. Segar, John Romita, Rod Scribner, Peter Sellers, Irv Spence, Preston Sturges, Herschel Walker, P.G. Wodehouse, and my parakeet Buster.