Generally being odd; doing stupid things that Keith and Russell suggest; reading; expanding musical horizons at an exponential rate; destroying taste buds through continual exposure to spicy foods; the amazing world of orchids.
st.alfonzo's pancake breakfast house; planet gong; a talking platypus
Music for the week: Aphex Twin--Bubblebath 3; Fred Frith--Allies
Monty Python's The Holy Grail; A Clockwork Orange; Brazil; Caddyshack; Dr. Strangelove; The Princess Bride; and then some idiotic ones like Krull and Tron.
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, Seinfeld reruns. I miss the following shows: The A-Team, Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, V, Land of the Lost, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, Pinky and the Brain, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead. I also really like the old cartoons: Thundarr the Barbarian, G Force, GI Joe, Transformers, Space Ghost, Thundercats, He Man.
William Blake: All of his stuff is so amazing; James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and one day I will plow through Finnegan's Wake; Dan Simmons: The Hyperion Series; Philip K. Dick: All of his stuff, but the Valis trilogy had a huge impact on me; George Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984; Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test; Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Hermann Hesse: Magister Ludi, Narcissus and Golmund, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha; Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar; William Golding: The Lord of the Flies; Richard Adams: Watership Down; Lewis Carrol: Alice in Wonderland; Tom Stoppard: Rosencranz and Gildensturn are Dead; Tom Robbins: Skinny Legs and All; Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell; Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Arthur Rimbaud's poetry; Charles Baudelaire's poetry; Charles Bukowski: all of his novels and poetry.