Art from the the first half of the 20th century, old clothes, old chairs, old records, basically anything old. I like listening to news talk radio and getting blurry enough so I can tag with silver markers on mailboxes or go to the local train yard and do really funny looking pieces on cattle cars. Also in no particular order...cats, Lambretta, riding on trains, lamps, lights and electrical wiring, grand slam shirts, fred perry, british soccer jerseys, sf giants, french fries with mayo, goat cheese, carrs crackers, pesto, salad, wine from my uncle's winery, cheap beer, whiskey, el farolito, banana ice cream, old post cards(hopefully sent), snail mail, old magazine adverts, the London underground, Waterlooplein in Amsterdam, Pisa, Firenze, Roma, Berlin, Wien, Steyr, Bretagne, subway stations and tunnels, old fr8 trains, early 70's New York graffiti artists, spending all my day at the library, my friends in europe, photos, and calmata olives are pretty nice too.
The Specials The Beat Madness The Jam Elvis Costello The Who Desmond Dekker Prince Buster Squire Dead Kennedies Husker Du Modest Mouse Skatatalites Andre Nikotina The Flaming Lips The Kinks The Pixies Minor Threat Pleaseasaur Wesley Willis Velvet Underground The Style Council Kaiser Chiefs Talking Heads Oingo Boingo Roxy Music Camper Van Beethoven New Order
Anything by Hitchcock, Truffaut, Kubrick, Jeunet, Wes Anderson, Coen Brothers. I like all the Pink Panthers, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Fletch, Delicatessin, Ghost World, Night on Earth, anything Fellini did but especially Nights of Cabiria and La Dolce Vita, Double Indeminity, Some Like It Hot, Breaking Away, Lolita, Quadrophenia, The Producers, Life is Beautiful, Jonny Steccino, Style Wars, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Jerk, Lost in Translation, Swimming Pool, Murder By Death, La Haine, Man Bites Dog, The Godfather, Being There, The French Connection, Klute, Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, Dummy, The Graduate, King of Hearts, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Mystery Men, Misery, Fargo, Mighty Wind, Harvey, Big, The Conversation and a whole bunch more I'm too lazy to write down.
Three's Company, The Brady Bunch, and Ellen. Oh and The Late Late show, Coupling, Josh Kornbluth, Lost, Rapid Remodel, Imagemakers and Spark.
Salinger, Kundera, Kafka, Orwell, Steinback, Irving, Palahniuk, Adamson, Chinaski, Kosinski, that kind of crap.