Satire. Futurism. Truth. Humanity. Ontology. Epistemology. Eschatology. Single-malt whiskey. Carthage. Comics. Art Nouveau. Comedia. Tragedia. Politics. Abolishing tribethink. Taking over the world, and fixing it. Good food with good friends. Beautiful women with beautiful minds.
Them what as drink lustily from the cup of life. Also, wombats.
Young Elvis Presley and old Frank Sinatra. Johnny Cash, Langhorne Slim, Catch 22, Operation Ivy, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, The Pogues, The Clash, The Rolling Stones, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Ma Rainey, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Too Bad & The Strikeouts, Less Than Jake, Cole Porter, Rancid, Stiff Little Fingers, The Pietasters, Dr. Dre, Toots & the Maytals, Everclear, Bouncing Souls, Chuck Berry, Reel Big Fish, Jerry Lee Lewis, Robert Johnson and anyone else who plays hokum.
I crave energy.
Walk the Line, Office Space, anything Brad Bird or Mel Brooks, and Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy or Dan Aykroyd before their comedy withered. Bill Murray still, as of yet.
30 Rock, The Shield, Rescue Me, Battlestar Galactica, Deadwood, Veronica Mars, South Park, Venture Brothers, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Rome, Brotherhood, The Office (both versions), Nip/Tuck, Extras.
I'm pretty happy with the stuff I've written, which you may preview in the photos section to your own great delight: Dose, She's Famous Now, Black Ambulances, Death Perception, Heist, Strychnine Kiss, Star-X, Citizen X: The Mission, Invisible Inc.Apart from those, I confess a predilection for the works of Messrs. Mark Twain, James Thurber, Raymond Chandler, W.B. Yeats, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Ms. Jane Austen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Brian Azzarello, Kurt Vonnegut, Terry Pratchett, Will Eisner, Charles Dickens on his good days, and, of course, Heller's Catch-22.
Ben Franklin, Robert Ingersoll, Jonathan Swift, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Winsor McCay, George Orwell, James Thurber, Roald Dahl, Alan Moore, Mark Twain, Stephen Colbert, Voltaire, Harvey Kurtzman, Frederick Douglass, Betty Friedan, Hannibal Barca, Horace, Juvenal, George Herriman, Wally Wood.